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Bowdoin is slated to be closed permanently as part of Red/Blue. As far as the building goes, obviously they will keep it, we are just fantasizing. So no need to worry.

The project is indicative of the institutional rot and lack of ideas at all american institutions. The entire machinery moves automously without vision or oversight--the university has a goal to expand its footprint so they can hire more people, so they purchase land, they pay for buildings, the...

https://archboston.com/community/threads/reasonable-transit-pitches.4187/page-63#post-266085 + photo of red line tunnel with nothing on top

The building is obviously spiritually evil. Wishful thinking to imagine otherwise. The people who built it hated cities. That said it would be fun to see them try to A) keep the building B) add through streets. Like say that there were 5-10 mini-Hurley buildings within the street grid that are...

So this is the first I'm hearing about this project. I'm curious if this whole area is slated to be developed? Or is it going to remain industrial with just a corridor connecting the south end and seaport?

Maybe we can get some guys together next weekend and some thermite and go weld the rail. We can go to the beach after.

How did trains do it back in the day?

Two huge developments coming to Dover: https://www.bldup.com/posts/500-units-planned-for-former-liberty-mutual-campus-in-dover-nh 500 units comin to the Liberty buildings. LM had a tax-exempt status in Dover for a very long time and was a big employer up until Covid, but they consolidated to...

Every building between MGH and 1 Congress needs to go

I was considering going to the cape, but the ferry is wildly expensive and the train is 2.5hr. I've heard the train is locked to 30mph past a certain point because of the tracks and grade crossings. Any of the train heads know if it would be easy to shorten the trip time? Do we just have to wait...

Project would be a great candidate for single staircase reform.

I still don’t know what happens if a building is built “too tall”. Do people think it will fall over on them?

I wonder if you could prove that this building sits on one of the sites in allston that harvard bought and demolished long ago to expand their real estate footprint. It's a decent development either way.

No photos, but this is under construction now. The ground is being dug up and I saw the construction workers having a meeting this morning at the site.

Now visible from Lechmere

The old freight ROW through Charlestown probably works for this purpose. Here is the 3375 feet it takes to get to 135' at 4% grade. You could even cheat by running the rest of the line down that ROW but then you'd end up in Sullivan. This all said, if this was ever constructed, it would be one...

I was riding with my friend on Blue (he commutes on it) and noticed that the train announcements were 1 station off. I asked and he said it's normal. Anyone know about this?

Putting my hat in for a west station - grand junction - Tobin alignment with a transfer at Kendall, align somewhere in the inner belt where we can find space to get over to Tobin

Is there a reason a bridge can't be added to the dam?

Yes from what I can tell. I thought this area was some sort of protected wetland but I guess it’s just fallow.