Recent content by bigeman312

I love the addition of protected bike lanes on Elm, especially between Beech and Cutter. That is a major bike corridor between Davis/Tufts/Teele/West_Somerville/Medford_Hillside and Mass Ave and points south (Cambridge, Back Bay, Fenway, Allston, Brighton, etc). I love the redesigned Beech/Elm...

Thanks for the link! Here are the biggest projects for those who aren't sifting through: Green Line Extension (construction), $2.12B North Station Draw 1 Bridge Replacement (design), $1.29B Red / Orange Line Vehicles (construction), $1.22B Green Line Type 10 Vehicle Replacement Program...

There are definitely lines that run mostly full trains on weekends and should easily have frequencies improved. For example, the Providence Line is quite full most weekends on roughly once every two hour frequency. 90 minute frequency on the Providence Line on weekends should be a no-brainer.

It's such a tricky space because I don't want to discourage a mode shift away from automobiles, but I recognize that many humans on a class III e-bike will choose to go its max speed even if they aren't "supposed to" and we both know speed enforcement is a joke. If a 20 mph speed limit on a...

I hope you didn’t take my post as an implicit approval of the types of disrespectful behavior you posted, which I’m sure we all agree are not okay and fully outside the purview of this discussion. Bad actors can be on any mode of transportation. This discussion is about which vehicles should be...

From the sounds of it, we both have similar lived experiences of what micromobility usage is like in mixed traffic with automobiles. We could have a long discussion about mixed use trails and at what speed capability a vehicle becomes inapporpriate to bring onto a multi-use. That would likely...

It was a mistake to give so much of our land to automobiles. Just because Maseratis is school zones is normalized doesn’t mean society is better for it. It would be a mistake to allow the same to happen on multi-use trails, with vehicles that can travel over 40 mph.

The biggest thing Boston could do (and should, in my opinion) is to shift more sidewalk clearing from private responsibility to municipal responsibility. In a perfect world, the city would be collecting data on sidewalk usage and any sidewalk above a certain threshold would fall under municipal...

I know I’m late to the discussion, but here’s how I’d see it in a Rozzie-only Orange Line extension: * 30 truncated Mattapan - Roslindale * 35 truncated Dedham Mall - Roslindale * 36 truncated Dedham Mall - Roslindale via West Roxbury VA * 37 eliminated (taken partially over by a 52 re-route) *...

At the risk of stating the obvious, this person might not be very bright.

This project is called The Parkline, with an address of 27 Dixwell St, and is in Jamaica Plain. Egleston (which has been my home for over a decade) is part Roxbury and part Jamaica Plain. The boundary with the greatest consensus (and the one used by the City of Boston) is Columbus Ave, and this...

The idea is to implement it in the area that best fulfills the following: Overly congested with automobiles beyond what can be handled spatially by the existing street network Densely populated Very well served by mass transit from nearly all directions Easy to bound with entry points that...

Important to note that for this trip (presumably Camberville or Dorchester/Quincy/South Shore -> East Boston) no congestion charge would be enacted even if you did drive. It’s getting lost in the conversation how narrow a proper congestion zone would be in Boston. For all of the doom and gloom...

No. The congestion zone is entered when you *exit* the Pike. When you stay on the Pike, you wouldn’t enact a charge. It is for surface roads. The Pike is a convenient boundary because it’s not as porous as a surface road. The gantries can be placed on each of the bridges that carry traffic over...

A cleaner western boundary would be Bowker. It’s a lot less porous than Mass Ave. Bowker, Mass Pike, Fort Point Channel, Boston Harbor, Charles River forms a very clean boundary.