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[teddywolf]

With a hat tip to Atrios:
The Obama administration has introduced a new variable to the cost of affordable housing: the cost of transportation from the house to work.

Not a sexy topic, no. But think of this: if you factor in transportation costs and adjust the index from a simple 30% of income to a higher percent covering housing and transportation, the amount of affordable housing in the US drops significantly from the previous estimate of 70% affordable housing.

This is useful.

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[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Can tell you for certain as someone who lives in Quincy and has to take the train and then take a bus; it takes me an hour from Quincy to Cambridge each day and more than that when the trains are f8cked up.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, the joys of the MBTA.
Wife and roommate can both regale you with stories of buses that never came. They were quite annoyed when the story got leaked a year or two back that some of the invisible incorporeal buses were by design rather than by traffic.