Reply #26: LOL, Hingham residents [View All]

[midnight armadillo]

Will the ladies of Hingham be paying for the housing of the poor
citizens of New Orleans since they insist on dumping more global
climate change creating toxic climate destabilizing filth into the
atmosphere to replace Pilgrim?


Oh, if only you knew what the residents of Hingham were like. The state wants to extend the commuter rail south of Boston, the 'Greenbush' line. Every town calamored for the extension...except Hingham. A few wealthy, loud residents bitched that the train (running on an existing track, mind you), would damage the historic downtown buildings, ruin their lives, etc etc.

They've held it up for like 10 years. They even rejected a $30 million tunnel UNDER their downtown.

All this to keep the riffraff from more southerly towns from passing through their prescious fucking downtown. The self-centeredness character of Hingham is hard to fathom - it's difficult to describe the whole fucked up nature of this in a few sentences.

Fortunately, the state is building the commuter rail now anyway.