Recent content by HenryAlan

This guy's a real piece of work: He has no clue that hardly anybody has a parent who can simply reach out and get their kid a job in the field that happens to interest them the most like that.

The article starts on page 114 of the PDF file -- some great pictures and a very thoughtful write-up. Sometimes we forget just how interesting some of these public facilities happen to be.

💯 Yeah, it's nice. But there are hundreds, probably thousands of similar houses throughout Boston. My own house doesn't look very different from this one*, and I do not at all consider it to be any kind of preservation property. * I would need to undo some cheap fixes made over the years to...

Hard to say. Washington Street between Forest Hills and Green Street has several recent projects of similar scale. Those were approved at a time when there weren't enough people living along that corridor to put up any significant NIMBY fight. Perhaps the people who've moved into the new...

I kind of do. I don't like the building in this location, but I do think the design is spectacular. I don't know if there is a way to save some of it while hitting the urbanist goals that are vastly more important, but if there is a way, I'd like some of it to be preserved.

Yes!

I don't see that as a downgrade. Really just some slight tweaks to the cladding, or is there something more fundamentally different that I'm not noticing?

The first time I was in Boston and rode the 'T in 1986, that's what was there. Interestingly, I don't think I've ever used Prudential station subsequent to that visit, and it never registered on me that the entrances had changed. And the only reason I used that station then, was because Copley...

As you describe regarding the open archways, I like structures that involve an element of exposure to the outside. The new concourse is a fantastic example of this, but I do think the slight gap between it and the head house is a bit odd. We'll see what ultimately happens, but I don't see it as...

Also worth noting that there is no Brightline style proposal from anybody for Ohio, nor will there likely ever be one. So he's basically saying no to any kind of rail whatsoever.

Okay, but do you understand how marginal tax rates work? That's not remotely an 80% increase in your effective tax rate. You still pay 5% on the first million. If you make above $1 million, the additional 4% is only for the amount above that level. So if you made $2,000,000, your tax liability...

As far as I'm concerned, a street without a sidewalk shouldn't exist in any but the most rural of locations. Nowhere on Cape Cod fits that description. They can have the trees, or they can have fewer car lanes, but the compromise should never be on pedestrian safety.

I occasionally commute on the Blue Line and have never noticed that. But as it's occasional, it's possible that I just haven't paid enough attention. I should add, though, that I've noticed such issues now and then on all automated station announcements.

It's hard to evaluate this without seeing the competing bid documents, but I suspect there was more to it than who paid the most rent.

If they build as rendered, it will do exactly that.