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This is incredibly grim, an absolute site killer and a near perfect representation of the worst case scenario that many of us envisioned when the site changed hands. I don't want to ad block; I actually want to support the few sites that I do visit; this is untenable @SkyriseCities.

Amory Street runs end to end from the B to the C. The opposite end of that street faces the outbound platform of the Kent Street station. They solved the double St. Paul problem by creating another possible confusion. Swing and a miss, they should have kept BU West. (Incidentally they did it...

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/01/30/sandwich-residents-officials-want-action-restoring-pond-impacted-railroad-collapse/4315491001/ MassDOT's rep heard an earful for showing up at a Sandwich Conservation Commission meeting with an after-the-fact request to permit the fall's...

I'm going to be spending some extended time in this area, at least through the remaining worst parts of Covid. I had one eye on this category to see when it was finally going to get a new post. I'll be happy to contribute what I hear or see as I start to get more familiar with the area and its...

I do believe there's a tolling stanchion right at the throat. We now have years of data from every transponder and license plate. The use proportions are now 100% knowable. Send out 350 invoices to the cities and towns using the thing in proportion to their usage (presumably Gosnold as town #351...

Absolutely love these essays, EdMc. Always a great story you tell. Thanks so much. Let's hope to catch some more ballgames on the other side.

The year is 1978 and traffic has never been lighter in Boston. The Central Artery is flowing freely thanks to all of the stress removed from it by the completed Southwest Expressway, Inner Belt and Northwest Expressway. The population of the city proper has plummeted to 450,000, as easy highway...

They got this repair done in about a month, all while purportedly being mindful of the environmental issues with the adjacent pond. I guess there wasn't any rocket science involved here, but that timeline still feels amazing when you look at those pictures up the page. I know that an emergency...

The street trees at the spot where Kelton Street in Allston turns into Winchester Street in Brookline are absolute showstoppers. (If I did it the link right, click here for the view into Allston, and then rotate 180° and ENHANCE! to see how the other half lives.) Amazing how the 100+ year old...

(Putting this here for lack of certainty over the size of what this post is about. I also go off the rails, or rather, on the rails, at the end with some connectivity musings, so mods, feel free to relocate that portion if you'd rather have any such discussion in a transpo thread. TIA.) Here's...

The wiki page on the old Union Station had a link to a 2011 Press Herald story about the destruction of the old station with a surreal picture of the station clock tower in mid-collapse: From the dust of Union Station, Portland preservation arose It would be wonderful if they got the station...

Now that I have had the day to sit with this, I have to put my baseball fan hat on for a spell. This will be emotional, subjective, and unsupported by evidence. Feel free to scroll right on through if you aren't feeling it. The plan that's been articulated so far is fully meh to my eyes...

I'm in the "good for the D'Angelos" camp. In addition to maintaining and expanding a generational family business, they held out for decades against all offers and got themselves onto the masthead of a nine-figure development project that they'll continue to have some kind of stake in. Yeah, a...

Well then someone needs to stuff Tim Murray back into the gym locker he escaped from in high school. Guy was still writing op-eds about it within the past few weeks. In lieu of providing a link or of actually having to read the whole thing, I'll just paraphrase what I imagine it said: "Connect...

Let's gooooooo... (Via Commonwealth Mag) With a quote at the end from Robert Brown committing BU to giving up whatever land they can spare to make this work. Would have been too much to ask to nail them to a higher West Station commitment, but this is a big deal all on its own.

This discussion is my shit. For a fact, there are legal types in the offices of all 5 officers on this list whose only jobs are to think deeply about the nature and sources of their bosses' respective power and to figure out whether they can accrue more of it. Just the most heavily dog-eared...

Here's one you can take to the bank: she will campaign on abolishing the BPDA, and if she wins she will come to the same epiphany that Walsh did during his transition, namely that the mayor can wield an extraordinary amount of power through the BPDA, and then as mayor she'll embark upon a slate...

Partly inspired by this thread, today I led a one-person tour of a few of the Olmsted-designed Brookline hill paths (scroll the link to the bottom): Winthrop, Addington, Colborne, and the grand finale of Summit Path - that last one after a stopover in Washington Square for some Cafe Fixe, of...

The very end of this Globe article says that nine intersections on Beacon Street "were also upgraded . . . with technology that helps trolleys to squeeze through before the signal turns red". Conventional wisdom around here is that the signals have been TSP-capable for quite some time now, but...

Really good idea. I suspect community feedback around design will arrive in the same spirit as it did for highway renumbering and for the same reason: keep things looking the same because so much of our marketing is tied up in that look. A design like this would retain that steel arch charm (if...