[aberkowitz]

1. Keep The T open until three or four, so busy entrepreneurs can get home for a few hours of sleep.

2. Get nonlocal VCs and Angels to come to Boston to make deals, and show the locals how it's done.

3. Encourage school to offer indefinite stop out programs. Too many students stash their ideas and suspend their leave of absence lest they lose financial aide or have to reapply to college.

[Anechoic]

> Keep The T open until three or four, so busy entrepreneurs can get home for a few hours of sleep.

Not gonna happen for the rail transit modes, the down time is necessary so maintenance and track inspection can happen (the T isn't like NYC transit where local service can be shunted to express tracks during shutdowns). I suppose the T could substitute buses during those hours, but that will require a lot of money the T doesn't have to move very few people.

[mbell]

> Not gonna happen for the rail transit modes, the down time is necessary so maintenance and track inspection can happen

Having lived in Boston for 6 years, 4 of them without a car and getting around on the T, if they are doing maintenance on off hours, I've never seen it. Rather they shut down sections of the T line for days at a time and run buses in their place.

[keypusher]

I hear this argument a lot, but I live on the Green Line and I very, very rarely see them doing any maintenance after hours on the tracks. Personally, I think it would make a huge difference if they ran 24/7 through Friday and Saturday evenings.

[Anechoic]

@mbell & @keypusher - they don't do maintenance on every inch of track every night, but I've spent a lot of time working on the T after hours and there is always some maintenance activity happening on all the lines (even if it's just track inspection which isn't something you're likely to notice unless your looking for it).

[bostonpete]

> it would make a huge difference if they ran 24/7 through Friday and Saturday evenings.

What does that mean? Wouldn't 24/7 mean all night every evening? Or are you just saying they should at least run all night on the weekends...?

[keypusher]

Yes, sorry. I meant all night on the weekends.