A little bit of each. The company had its own garage, I had to pay per month to park, but it looked extremely subsidized in comparision to what some of those garages cost.
The short commute was a combination of flexible work hours ( roughly 10-7 ) with a creative use of the roads in the East Cambridge/Back Bay area, with about four redundant alternate routes.
There's a lot of interesting old rail beds in the Bedford through Lowell area which got converted to pedestrian and bike paths. There's one which I think splits off the Minuteman path, up by the VA hospital in Bedford and ends in an office park on the Bedford/Billerica/Chelmsford border, so it really is possible to cycle to Chelmsford.
But as far as the New Deal, while I usually go libertarian this would be a very good time to bring back the WPA. The infrastructure is crumbling, and people need jobs.
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Date: 2009-07-29 07:55 pm (UTC)The short commute was a combination of flexible work hours ( roughly 10-7 ) with a creative use of the roads in the East Cambridge/Back Bay area, with about four redundant alternate routes.
There's a lot of interesting old rail beds in the Bedford through Lowell area which got converted to pedestrian and bike paths. There's one which I think splits off the Minuteman path, up by the VA hospital in Bedford and ends in an office park on the Bedford/Billerica/Chelmsford border, so it really is possible to cycle to Chelmsford.
But as far as the New Deal, while I usually go libertarian this would be a very good time to bring back the WPA. The infrastructure is crumbling, and people need jobs.