Recent content by as02143

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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I think this speaks a bit to the issue with the PCCs seemingly ending up in smashes seemingly often.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    it seems like some more senior operators appreciate the 'streetcar'-ness of the previous types, while, to be honest, most of us riders really appreciate the newness of the 9.
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    As far as branding - I'm thinking of LA Metro with it's "Rapid" buses which use numbers beginning with 700. We have suburban routes that have 700 in their name, but, maybe we could do a step-down and go to the 600s? Like 1-->601?
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    I don't know if the "T" is useful for buses. What does the T mean even? I would love for them to commit to it and brand everything as F for frequent or go full chaos and brand SL for all the frequent routes. SL1 and SL1 be damned! Less tongue in cheek, they should consider something more than...
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    Bring it back! Bring it back! Bring it back!
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    Lab Building (née Hotel Hampshire) | 34-40 Hampshire St. | Cambridge

    I thought the scattered retail embedded in residential areas was a function of large household sizes and less strictly about formal single-use zoning.
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    Lab Building (née Hotel Hampshire) | 34-40 Hampshire St. | Cambridge

    This facade reminds me of a high street jewellery shop, just needs a bullet and vanadalproof glass case instead of bike parking.
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    "The Garage" | 36 JFK Street | Harvard Square | Cambridge

    I'm so sad that all the interesting retailers have left. Not sure that there's going to be much "there" there unless they go like Bow Market.
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    Biking in Boston

    This seems a bit ... pedantic? Somerville's electeds have given the raison-d'etre for this project to be making it a "Boulevard" (like those fancy streets in Paris). McGrath Highway will be renamed McGrath Boulevard if they have their chance. So, the critique is moot? (To be honest, most...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I suppose the leg could up the requirements to "adjacent" communities :)
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    Grounding the McGrath

    "Natural" traffic calming is what one of the public works people called those potholes during a Resistat meeting a couple years ago.
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    That post-war "dream big" also came with "tell the townies to put up or else". Which is why that post-war stuff didn't end up working out in the long term.
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    Grounding the McGrath

    Responding not to the diagram - that seems to be an awfully standard diagram now - rather - responding to the idea that @Longfellow said about essentially flipping the script -- building up to the highway or boulevard edge and then only accommodating pedestrians at points to get across the new...
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    Grounding the McGrath

    That's like a disturbed vision of a hausmannian boulevard!
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    Grounding the McGrath

    Shifting the roadway away plus a pair of tree planting rows plus an access lane with cars parked as buffers will definitely help to reduce road noise to the people who live next to the boulevard. I think the issue is largely the awkward depths of the properties that sit next to the highway...

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