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???? She was quick with an answer when asked if there are other states or cities that are doing transportation right. She said California is the best in the world at electrifying trains. She hailed Quebec for its hydrogen-powered trains (“that’s something we’re looking at,” she said). She said...

Great to see more infill coming along this stretch of Western!

You managed to get both infill developments on Centre St in Brookline as well!

5.12.24:

Updates on the two projects on Centre Street:

Update on the little triangle park. Didn't realize it was getting a BlueBike station!

Looking good!

agree on how it developed, but given the fact that it has a heavy rail rapid transit spine running pretty much through the center of the entire neighborhood, there should be 20+ storey apartment towers next to every OL station. the fact it hasn't been allowed to densify much at all is pretty...

Next tweet in the thread suggests it is possible it will replace the current Air Canada flights. I am flying YHZ-BOS in August and will be interested to see if the booking gets shifted to a PAL flight.

View from across the Common:

Looks like the beer garden on the Common is coming back this year:

JP is a suburb

https://brookline.news/bha-breaks-ground-on-new-115-unit-affordable-housing-project-on-marion-street/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/02/metro/boston-tax-plan-watchdog-report/

Can second this book recommendation--very good if a bit stuffy in an academic sense. Lots of frustrating anecdotes about NIMBYism in Greater Boston gone amok. I've seen one of the authors (Katherine Einstein) present a few times and she's really cool--does a lot of really important research on...