Recent content by Badusername

Would the city own the fire station? I ask because the city of Somerville is currently trying to rectify its poor decision to rent a fire station in Assembly Row 5 years ago.

Interesting detail in this Globe article today: Where should the MBTA look for ideas? For Phil Eng, it’s Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore.

At what diesel price point do the Amtrak fees become price competitive? The spike in price since the ConnDOT announcement makes me wonder if they’ll be reconsidering now.

It is? I’ve never even considered going up because I thought it was just a $50 elevator ride for expensive drinks.

From the platform it felt much closer than that, but a fair point. It’s not unprecedented for excavator rollovers to occur on unstable ground, the tracks are lower than the empty lot. It was just noteworthy seeing the excavator up there and thinking it was getting a bit too close to the tracks...

Yeah I’ve been wondering if there are any restrictions around heavy machinery in the vicinity of active RR tracks. The excavator (pre-fence collapse) was driving around the top of the pile mere feet away from the 90mph commuter rail track. Reddit thread with more photos.

The City of Somerville has had a two street pilot program for enhanced snow clearing enforcement and municipal snow clearing in the case of non-compliance since 2021. The problem is, they abandoned points 2 and 3 of this program at some point in time. I spoke with the new administration about...

Hmm sounds familiar to the email I got today

It’s a terrible decision. It would mean spending a billion+ in limited infrastructure funding to cement the unsafe highway design and inefficient land use decisions of the 60s.

My experience at the Swingers location in NYC was far better than PuttShack. It has actual good courses instead of just single shot gimmicks.

I sent an email to the project team (cambridgereidoverpass@dot.state.ma.us), Rep Mike Connolly (Mike.Connolly@mahouse.gov), and CC'd Phil Eng on there for good measure with some detailed criticism of the designs. I would encourage others to do the same. In my view even the designs they...

Per the Mayor, Copper Mill applied to proceed with this as a 40B project on 12/22/25.

Just waiting for the NIMBY ghouls to complain about shadows on their gravestones.

Can Zone 1A stations with existing fare gates like Ruggles and Porter be configured so there is a single fare control area where CR and subway can be accessed? This would be particularly valuable on the Orange line where the commuter rail can act as an express option if the timing is right.

Every highway removal sounds crazy until it's done and then people question why it wasn't done sooner. Too many lanes of roadway on too much of our limited waterfront.