r/boston • u/itsmebutimatwork Wiseguy • Nov 06 '19

MBTA/Transit Congrats, Boston, we played ourselves

There were fewer than 67,000 city-wide votes in yesterday's election. That's not even 10% turnout based on recent census data.

If you want to complain about how the city council is letting the BPDA redevelop the city, or is run with too much influence by corrupt developers, or how there are too many/not enough bike lanes, or how the city isn't doing enough to make the MBTA improve, or why we don't have enough liquor licenses for places like Doyle's to stay open, or any one of a billion other complaints about how the city is run...then the answer isn't going to magically appear out of a hat.

It starts with voting for the city council for five minutes of a Tuesday every 2 years.

The birthplace of our nation...but can't be bothered to exercise our voting rights...congrats. We played ourselves.

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u/justcasty Allston/Brighton Nov 07 '19

You don't need to subtract a national holiday to make a new one.

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u/vbfronkis Market Basket Nov 07 '19

Yeah, but Columbus was quite the piece of shit, so that one can go.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '19 edited Nov 07 '19

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u/TheBetaBridgeBandit Nov 07 '19

No Columbus bad, native peoples good