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Just saw a few days ago (to my surprise) that the building on the SE corner of River St and Putnam Ave has been torn down. Anyone know if anything noteworthy is happening there? Apologies if this it's been covered somewhere in this thread already!

A couple from a week ago. For some reason I hadn't realized how much this takes over the view from the State House vicinity (first photo).

Wow!

Oh sure, no problem at all! Thanks for asking, and for the link. That shot was simply from a window seat on the way into Logan. I was intending to get some skyline photos on this approach, but I'd forgotten how you're practically on the ground before you get a good view of that, at least when...

South Boston this morning

New post from Cameron Booth explaining how the MBTA took the winning map and made it worse: http://transitmaps.tumblr.com/post/83628699211/mbta-comparison

Sorry for the crappy nighttime photo, but there's a new traffic light for bikes at Western and Putnam in Cambridge. I can't recall having seen one of these in the Boston area before; do they exist elsewhere in town? The light is operational but is turned to the side, I guess because the cycle...

About the B/C/D convergence, it's nice to show but I agree with Shepard above that few people are actually helped by seeing it. A much more useful proximity to show would be Green and Orange: Symphony/Mass Ave and Copley/Back Bay in particular. Those serve a lot more people who aren't already...

Hard to tell from the photo, but it looks like maybe the branches are indicated on the line between stations; I see some white marks that I'm guessing are letters. If so, it looks to be accurate with respect to the current GC situation, too. (There are four marks between Boylston and Park, but...

Here's a recent shot of what I assume is the new cycle track that's part of the reconstruction of Western Avenue in Cambridge. A few blocks are completed like this so far, but, of course, it'll be about a million years before this whole project is done.

Yeah, this. Cambridge/Somerville could use another 20 stations... or Brookline, Allston, etc. I had this idea that stations in those supposedly "served" areas are too often full or empty because there aren't enough of them, so I did some super basic GIS analysis on availability here. It's not...

Apologies for the reflection or whatever's going on in the middle.

Loving all these unique views! Not exactly high above anything, but here are a few from a Comm Ave rooftop. The smoke is because it was the 4th of July.

Re: 120 Kingston, 29 Story Tower in Chinatown Thursday, 4/18

That's very cool. What is it? Where did you find it?