Electric Josh

So the last week of July is the week that the Democratic National Committee is going to have a big shindig for John Kerry at the Fleet Center. My poor little town is going to be catastrophically shut down that week, I'm afraid. Now why aren't they doing this over by the airport or in Southie?

It's hard to underestimate how stupid it was to put something that would need such heavy security in the Fleet Center to begin with. This is a building that abuts an eight-lane underground traffic artery (Interstate 93), two of the city's four light rail lines (the T's Green and Orange lines), and sits atop an Amtrak commuter rail hub that serves half of the suburbs, stretching west to Worcester and north to New Hampshire. Across the street from the Fleet Center are restaurants, sports bars, small software companies, and shops, each on one of many minor streets. These are pretty much all going to need to be closed.

It is, of course, apparently too late to do anything about it, like move the convention to some more logical part of Boston, or just stop bothering to have conventions since they're little more than really expensive dog and pony shows anyway. It's good to be able to telecommute.
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