Recent content by boston85

An easy tool to see where shadows are cast is the site below. Put in the locations, building height and play around with the day and drag the sun around. SunCal

It seems pretty much status quo for the project. Not the first time this project sat idle for extended periods of time.

While rhetorical, your pompousness deserves a reply. I did not say it was likely, but if the Chinese were to do something, it would be the possibility to remotely shutoff components of your enemy's transportation network in time of war would have some value.

I would be less concerned with hiding transmitters and listening to conversations than inserting to code that messes with sensors and stops the cars from running. I do not know the level of extent of supply chain risk mngt the MBTA uses nor if its a worthwhile exploit, but I would say its a non...

Re: North-South Rail Link Dig into their cost estimate and you will see why. They took the entire cost of Seattle's project, which includes all the engineering, management, portal, roadways, risk contingencies and used that for their regression for cost per mile of tunnel boring and nothing...

Re: North-South Rail Link Trains are too archaic for Musk to bother with. It's hyper loop or bust. And, I am only slightly joking. He skipped over the easy win with automated/electric port trucks and electric delivery trucks and went to an overly ambitious long haul semi product(which is...

Re: North-South Rail Link Sorry, for replying to this three weeks after, but I agree their cost estimate is shit. For one, they appeared to double count and use a bunch of outlier costs. The NSRL report refers to the Alaska Way Tunnel Costs of $989 per mile as one of their comparable costs...

Agreed. But sadly, there were airport workers attempting to direct traffic. Either they choose not to or were not able to get drivers to move along.

Busses are one thing, but actually enforcing no waiting curbside to pickup passengers would really help out. I am not sure if it was just State Police Troop F retaliating to the investigators looking into their books, but a few weeks ago, I had to pick someone up from the airport it was an utter...

I have friends who moved to DC after school that are getting emails warning them about the project from their Mass EZPASS accounts.

https://www.suncalc.org/#/42.3587,-71.0589,16/2018.05.31/06:55/214/0 There would not be any shadows on the common other than near the summer solstice, but before 7 AM, so there should be no issues.

Re: North-South Rail Link Reading the brief, the report is clearly intended to kill support for this project or at least play on peoples fear of the big dig costs. E.g. it would not be appropriate to use cost estimates to tunneling through active fault zones under the center of downtown...

The garages are kind of a shit show themselves. I avoid them at all costs even though it is free for 3 hours. A couple problems with them. 1. The placement of the ramp for the garage near AMC is probably in one of the worst places possible. There is a lot of foot traffic because of the...

Tesla Semi will turn out to be one of Elon's biggest strategic blunders. Tesla should have went full force after the port trucking, USPS/UPS/Fed Ex deliveries and other centralized operations with lower daily miles traveled. It will be many decades before Teslas replace 18 wheeler semis and...

Yes, the tech industry is different inside the beltway. But that may not be attractive to Amazon and may be a negative. Outside some three letter agencies in intel, the innovative tech talent, especially on the civil side, of government agencies is lacking. The consulting firms and IT vendors...