Recent content by Stlin

Not to distract from the curb space conversation, but What do folks think about the fact that we're apparently getting a second docked bike share provider, but red, privately owned/operated, and all e-bike? Apparently owned by a Segway (partner/subsidiary?) based in Cambridge, they have a...

Somernova refiled with the City of Somerville last week, with changes. Major headlines are as follows: Reduction in total square footage from 1.9M to 1.6M sqft. Building heights reduced from 9 to 14 stories (45 to 245 feet) to 6-9 stories (85 to 185 feet) New housing, with one building (in...

As far as I'm aware, no. I believe that 610726 is supposed to address only bridge superstructure (deck and up) repairs only. those bridge supports (substructures) are part of MassDOT Project 613211, and the bridge IDs suggest it'll touch the first two locations you flagged. Roosevelt Circle...

Close by I'd add Concord - it's town center is small but pretty nice, and it's a very short drive to Walden Pond, the gropius house and the DeCordova sculpture park, but Hapgood woods is walkable from the town center. For a day trip, Burlington VT, Northampton MA and Portland ME should...

The 3 story concrete block? That, AFAIK, is a BIDMC research / lab facility. As for the parking lot, I believe that is actually owned by the Red Sox. For what it's worth, that lot is part of the Fenway Corner project, discussion thread here. It looks like they're focused on the "Jersey Block" at...

... I included the slide that describes the scope of work, and am fully aware that the interstate is different from your side street. But unless the scope has significantly changed since the contract was awarded it absolutely is a resurfacing project and not a reconstruction, it simply has minor...

I'm not going to comment on the entire ideological argument, but I will say that 4.5 years to repave 8.5 miles of highway makes absolutely no sense - on average that's 110 lane *feet* of paving per day. Nothing in that scope should take that long, nor is Holcim a small bit contractor.

As a regular terminal B parker, not that it actually does anything, it's the only garage where they make you open the trunk so they can see your luggage.

Out of curiosity, have you considered an alternate shading for the Charles/ other bodies of water, or adding their borders in a different line type? Looking at Rumney Marsh it's fairly clear, but around the Charles it's harder to tell what's bank and what's Memorial Drive. I know a lot of...

I have... Thoughts... About the flanking design of the addition. I get we're looking at a flat elevation and that it'll look different in 3 dimensions, but it looks like the original building is getting swallowed by a house monster.

Or, there's a middle ground. While PATI is definitely a fixed snapshot, looking at its data it didn't concern itself with much about the signs beyond does it exist and does it obstruct the accessible path. This project seems to care about the sign itself - does it still show accurate...

So having read the updates, a few notes. 1) think of the raised grove as sort of a deck. The old paving around the trees apparently was stressing the trees due to restricted soil volume, and constricting their root space, and this deck will evidently alleviate that so this is apparently mostly...

In the case of North Cambridge, or really Mass Ave from Harvard to Arlington center, I'd argue that the bigger obstacle is the fact that streets don't line up across Mass Ave. When they do it's usually not two streets you'd really want to make into a thru way. The exception to this is Cameron -...

If it helps, I've superimposed the two images. I assume the Springhouse is the round thing in the lower right.

Ermmm.... So I went and looked for the drawings they filed with BDPA. So if you look at this overhead aerial view, with the property limits superimposed, you can see that the line of trees you refer to as a "wall of vegetation" is wholly outside the boundaries of this site, and in fact the...