Recent content by ball_square

Thanks. I enjoy what Streetsblog does but sometimes I wish they'd cool it with the sensationalism. Like, I'm already mad about bike lanes and transit, the facts are strong enough on their own.

It's not all gone, I've worked in Kendall for a decade and it's livelier now than ever IMO. But the gravity has definitely moved away from One Kendall and towards the Red Line stop. I do hope that One Kendall can get some of its old life back soon.

I liked your unhinged rants more before you started using AI to write them.

I just don't agree. I think this attitude is the enemy of progress. Yeah, I think it would kinda suck for the new residents, and the rental asking price would be appropriately lowered. But it's better than not having somewhere to live, and it's better than leaving this corridor as-is.

How do you think people without cars live? Usually, they walk 10+ minutes to transit.. mostly bus stops which are less frequent and "harder to find" than this. The renter's market is so brutal right now that, yes, people will readily accept these conditions for an apartment they can afford...

Develop it all with 0 new parking spots. Ditch the median, add cycletracks, improve ped crossings. It's all a 10 minute walk from the Green Line. There's a grocery store and restaurants already--develop everything with ground floor retail and there'd be even more to do within walking distance...

If there is market demand for TOD then I think we should support it, even in pedestrian-hostile locations like this. The new developments will serve as justification for future pedestrian & bike improvements and the residents themselves will be credible advocates for their own new neighborhood...

Does anyone know what neighborhood opinion would be if, rather than bike lanes, the parking was replaced with widened sidewalks/greenery (which, sneakily, could become on-curb bike lanes in the future)? Put another way, is the neighboorhood against parking loss, or are they against parking loss...

I don't know. I think that humans outside of cars tend to behave in a much more socially-conscious way than humans in cars. While the average driver might see it morally fine to drive 25mph in a 20mph zone, I think the average cyclist will actually ride 20mph or less. People are basically...

No not at all! I'm just trying to argue in favor of addressing behavior rather than vehicle specs, generally.

Not to put words in @KCasiglio 's mouth, but if I understand their POV right, it's that we should regulate speed and behavior, not vehicle capability. I generally agree with this. I agree with your 3-tier categorization in terms of considerations to speed, right-of-way, and noise. But I...

If the Red Line situation got dire enough with more and more forced retirements of the old cars, could/would they ever use Orange Line sets to temporarily supplement the Red Line?

Hopefully it'll include ground floor retail. There's bunch of businesses there currently including Ebi Sushi and Urban Axes. Would be a shame if it turns into a lobby, a parking garage entrance, and a bank.

Seems like the snow mountain at Gilman Sq has busted through fence towards the CR tracks. One of the collapsed fenceposts is within a foot or two of the tracks.

The title says that the "Bikeway Project ... Reduced Crashes". The bikeway project, as many bike infra projects famously do, involved removing a lane. It's fair to say that the project reduced crashes IMO.