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    Build Back Better: MA’s Share of (Hoped for) Fed Bucks

    Discussed in greater depth here. Beware the optics presentation on Concord + Rockland in particular are not all what they seem by their inclusion on one map.
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    "The Transpo Intelligencia": recc'd reads, blogs, articles, etc.

    Starting this thread because we're all going a little stir-crazy from self-quarrantine and not enough local dev news going on, and craving some relevant online reading we haven't seen before. Consider this a catch-all for blog recs, industry rags, "other cities' FCMB-like PowerPoints"...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    Starting this thread as a catch-all for noteworthy public transpo developments outside the region, as it's always helpful for the self-annointed aB Local Planning Czar to sample what's relevant happening outside our regional bubble. I guess stuff like Amtrak fleet procurement that affects the...
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    Regional New England Rail (Amtrak & State DOT & NEC)

    Starting a new thread because that "$117 BEEELION DOLLAR!" HSR thread makes for a crappy catch-all. . . -------------------- MassDOT just did a fresh document dump of study results from the Northern New England Intercity Rail Initiative on the Inland Route corridor. Draft EIS...
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    "Midtown"/Widett Circle in a non-Olympics Boston

    Let's get this party started, shall we. A Question and Conundrum: what do we truly have to work with here in the real world? Well, for starters: a very heterogeneous district of properties. So if "Master Developers" are as much a nonstarter now as it was before, Step 1 should be junking the...
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    Urban Trends We Hope Die in 2014

    Guess it's time to refresh this thread for another year. I'm going to re-nominate perjorative, exclusionary "greenspace". 2013 was once again chock full of proposals that betray total planning befuddlement at usage of open space by living, breathing humans.
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    Air Rights (writ-large) Thread

    Inspired by the Deck the Pike Extension thread, for other ugly gashes around town that need to be covered and clothed. . . ------------------------------ Exhibit A: http://goo.gl/maps/jCzLq
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    General Rail Fanning

    "Strongbad" the locomotive is out testing in Shoreline + T territory this weekend. Supposed to be laying over in Southampton Yard today.

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