Have Charlie Card & Hubway key; can travel

Take a ride around Philly sometime. After that, you'll think that Boston drivers are the greatest on the planet.

Drivers at times can be unpredictable or rude, but the roads themselves in many ways contribute to this. Poor signage, lanes that suddenly drop or don't line up across intersections, signals that are poorly timed, not enough loading zones for delivery trucks (resulting in flagrant double parking), etc, are just some of the things that make it difficult for even the most skilled drivers.

Anyway you slice it, with respect to transportation via wheels, roads & T, it sucks getting around in Boston. Lights are horribly timed, the idiot new law allows pedestrians to walk right out into traffic-let them try that in Paris or New York! Let's pass a jay walking law, the city & state fine, fee & ticket for everything else. The T has been a lamentable joke for three decades. I don't use it, because you can't count on it. Time is money, so why pay for a train ride that makes you late!? The stations are crappy, city bus stops (thanks Menino) are laughable glass advertisement props, the management alway$ top-heavy and inefficient, so why $upport that? The roads are so poorly maintained I regularly repair my car exclusively due to sub standard/poor road conditions--tires, suspension, shocks etc. Biking, as is evidenced by the white bike memorials, reveals the constant hazards for cyclists in Boston-it's unsafe due to lack of space & rude drivers. If you can afford the time, walking is a nice activity in Boston, it really is a walking city, with excellent green space carved out for pedestrian enjoyment.
Boston is a former cow town, a waterfront & common with winding streets grown into a city. It has peculiar traffic patterns, difficult for the uninitiated to navigate with a poor public transportation system, inadequate street or public parking and too many for $ parking lot$. Live and work local, walk? Demand public officials fix T! Potholes for the people-unacceptable!

The MBTA could hike fares 33%; Here's why you'd still ride
The MBTA's chief financial officer on Tuesday floated a fare-only solution to a nine-figure budget gap that would hike bus and subway fares by 33 percent. I think he's leaving money on the table.
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Don't drive in Boston. It's a great walking & biking city. That's why it's a great city, it's meant for people, not cars.

Part of the problem is the lack of clear signage in Boston and the neighborhoods. Some streets do not have street signs and some direction signs are very confusing, which may lead some people to drive erratically.

Yes it is. This is a really fantastic city to walk in and I actually like the T (even though the T does need to hurry up and join this century). But something happens to some people here when they get in their cars that makes them extremely rude. Not to pedestrians thankfully, they're very friendly to pedestrians in my humble opinion. But man are people jerks to their fellow driver. I once got honked at for not *anticipating* the green. Immediately upon the light changing from red to green, and I was paying close attention this particular moment, as my foot was moving from the brake to the gas - HOOONNKKKKK! Jeeesh. Whatever man.

Traffic signals. Synchronize traffic lights and you've solved a majority of the traffic issues downtown. It's truly amazing to see the congestion on Congress and Hanover with vehicles trying to get onto 93S. These city engineers of ours have ZERO street smarts.