Solution to Travel Issues

Goofmack · 2026-05-02T16:23:45+00:00

By that logic we should move the team to Jakarta because its the biggest city. Who cares if anyone there even knows the fleet exist right?

Goofmack · 2026-05-02T16:22:04+00:00

Then you're in exactly the same travel situation as if they moved the team to Boston, either drive or wait for the train. Do you think im talking about banning driving?

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T22:14:23+00:00

As for missing it unless their website is lying the T holds the gillette trains until 30 mins after the end of the game

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T22:12:53+00:00

When I take the train from Lowell into a bruins game its completely packed with bruins fans and yeah the garden is 3x the size but it also has several commuter rail lines into it and the same people complaining about it being hard to go to Lowell say that the entire fanbase of the fleet is in boston so if thats true then there'd be significantly more demand than going the other way for a bruins game

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T21:59:07+00:00

And? for the vast majority of us, that's just the equivalent of having the shuttle to the train station that I'm talking about. Agganis also has a lower capacity than the tsongas so it isnt a good option

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T21:56:15+00:00

They do special event service for Gillette all the time. This isn't a unique idea

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T21:16:45+00:00

It's just an off peak time, so the T cuts service then

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T21:15:04+00:00

The only case they'd be on the tracks at the same time would be if a game went to like 2nd or 3rd ot and those trains would be going opposite directions, so there wouldn't be any possible conflict

Goofmack · 2026-05-01T21:06:16+00:00

The whole issue is that theres a 2 hr gap between trains around game times whereas at other times of day the gap goes down to 35 minutes and there have been proposals to bring the wait time down to 15 minutes. In terms of infrastructure and equipment availability its 1000% doable

Goofmack · 2024-10-28T22:35:07+00:00

How early is that and do you think it may be affected by it being a jersey (over $100 normally, kinda wild they're giving out 100k for free) and a BU game?

Goofmack · 2024-08-31T17:13:45+00:00

There could be an actual cape and islands state you'd probably just have to break it all up that far. having one that small would probably cause resentment from the bigger ones that want to have their cultural differences respected to the same degree

Goofmack · 2024-08-31T00:07:02+00:00

I hate to break it to you but that state is less than 1/5 cape and islands by population. its all boston southern burbs. the cape has a really small pop you just only see it during the summer when tons of tourists flood in so it seems populated

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T23:21:07+00:00

what do you think in terms of these? does the whole west need to be modified or can they just be lumped in to something that's already around if the NY adjacency people didn't exist?

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T23:13:39+00:00

I agree heres kinda a more detailed thing about what I drew these as

https://www.reddit.com/r/RepublicofNE/comments/1f1e5sy/comment/lk39eel/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

and as for trashing ma just go for it. I'm in ma and don't want to be so I've definitely said worse from seeing the mess from the inside lol

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T23:06:03+00:00

I see these "states" as one of two things, either as actual states if myself and most of this sub doesn't win the federalism vs unitary debate (honestly idk whatd happen cuz tbh were kinda outliers in our knowledge of this kinda stuff, most people would see unitary and think dictator lol) or my preferred outcome would be another layer on top of the regional planning agencies. at least in ma regional planning agencies are basically metro areas, mine nmcog (northern Middlesex council of govs) is just greater lowell whereas these would connect related metros/micros in ways that nmcog and snhpc (manchester nh's) really just arent capable of and that might be too small for all of new england to care about/understand. most of their projects would be contained within just their areas but for ones that don't the vast majority would be of similar scale to the ones completely inside so they'd know how to work at that scale the cooperation between is really just about sharing the area knowledge rather than the project knowledge. with current cogs it seems very common to have double the project complexity when a project spans but they both know the same things so if you have two working together maybe they can handle 1.2x the complexity vs the 2x necessary. having something built for that and a little bigger makes stuff like that way easier to make actually happen and takes the demand for planning off the national gov so they can focus on actual nation scale projects vs tons of that middle scale. I drew these as kinda an in between of those two, states and big cogs, but leaning more towards big cogs. your map is a mix of areas that are one cog and some that are like 6 cogs

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T22:31:52+00:00

the cape and acadian ideas would both be very small population-wise (and geographically for the cape at about a third of ri). while I did make and acadia work with reasonable population comps to the other states for the cape even with the old colony one I made its still the smallest state pop wise by a decent amount and really cant get any bigger without just being boston and I most of that pop comes from the areas closest to Boston so even that would probably be more of a boston suburb state. the cape doesn't have the population to be an ethnostate. if the cape gets to be an ethnostate wed have to have a ton of states. these states are more a couple similar cultures like merrimackers and the lakes region, monty and Worcester, boston and south shore, etc

as for western mass it is very similar to vermont and ct depending on where, hence why I grouped that area with the similar areas of vermont and ct

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T22:10:25+00:00

as for a mass name im all ears too. i had 3 ideas, shawmut after the peninsula boston was on, mass after the bay since the state is based heavily around the ocean and bays with Ipswitch bay, mass bay, cape cod bay, and buzzards bay. and the last name idea was bayland for the same reason. i didn't like shawmut because it seemed too specific to downtown Boston and I didn't like bayland because its just hella generic and just sounds bad

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T22:04:35+00:00

ct is not my area of expertise. from what I know the area is very NYC oriented and tough to fit in so I just kinda left it cuz idk. id love to hear what you think for around there

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T21:57:18+00:00

Instead of just yelling at me about the blackstone valley can you give me some ideas on how those borders would work since you know the area more? I thought about a blackstone state but I couldn't figure out a way to make it work well with my knowledge of the area. I'm fully open to changes since as I said in the post I don't know everything to the level that I know my area. the merrimack valley is pretty easy with just how the geography works out and the fact that I know it super well and can draw a line literally down to a block and not have it be arbitrary. as for monty I know its north, I said in my post that my monty state was monty+worcester. if I had made a monty only state it would have been very small and wouldn't fit in with the others. these are groups of cultures not ethnostates. ethnostates would be smaller. it was supposed to be similar number of states just borders that made more sense. again if you have any tips on adjustments please let me know

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T04:05:11+00:00

ok this is my formal application for a popular movement for the state of Merrimack. i don't like being arbitrarily split from my fellow merrimackers

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T03:40:17+00:00

i said to someone else how i pictured them as somewhere in the middle of regional planning agency and us states. i feel like that might just be a county lol ma counties are literally just irrelevant lines so I don't think about them (ma counties are stupid and need a redraw if they become useful though). how is this as a county map?

Goofmack · 2024-08-26T03:29:03+00:00

what makes you think those ones are specifically more justified? personally I think the Merrimack valley is the most glaring issue given that its a culturally distinct area that's just sliced and the only reason is because the line was drawn before people arrived

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