Recent content by dwash59

Why are you acting like this is an either-or? Plenty of urban blocks have retail on multiple sides. I'm sure the people in the office building on Braintree street wouldn't mind some more retail. And the residents of the buildings going to use the train station aren't looking for their buildings...

Yep, more expensive than Logan's economy parking, longer trip that isn't free (unless you already have an MBTA monthly pass). This is not serving Logan. And their operator agrees, they don't even list Logan as a destination.

When I was at BU, the 57 filled up at Kenmore and skipped the eastern half of campus, sometimes running all the way through campus to Star Market, before finally stopping to let someone off and maybe let someone on. The B line at least offered the opportunity to get on some type of vehicle. Then...

There are whole building SCIFs that are far more attractive than this. Placing the blame for its looks on eavesdropping and spying is very incorrect.

But by the time you get to Orange, you've gone through the section of 2 that is two lanes separated by bollards... https://goo.gl/maps/YQzMMZpdWjy

That is http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/allston-yards

Site for 392-398 Cambridge Street is active http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/392-398-cambridge-street

Counterpoint, the current system that creates massive congestion for buses is a huge ask for lots of poor people who string bus connections together and is most definitely socially inequitable.

Got a postcard from them yesterday saying they are moving February 8 to Dorchester. Here's details: https://www.herbchambershondainboston.com/new-dorchester-location.htm

Somerville's taxes for next year are $10.76/$1000 or 1.076%. If you're talking about an increase of 30%, here's a table from Somerville about 2019 vs. 2018 taxes: The 59% rise for 4-8 family is mostly due to new construction of buildings on the larger size of that range, not reassessments of...

Proposition 2.5 makes it so that it is impossible for a city or town to raise property taxes on existing property more than 2.5% without an override voted on my the city or town. No city or town as a whole is having taxes go up that much. Some individual neighborhoods may, but that means that...

Name a place anywhere close to Boston where property taxes are 30%.

Yep, and it is unfortunate that so many zoning codes treat them identically.

I was going to recommend senior communities, but it appears SNH covers that. They are a weird mixture of urban and not in that one can live a very urban lifestyle there (walk to everything you need, live in a 1-2 bedroom apartment, etc.) despite them being in the suburbs typically.

This. And regardless of funding source, engineers are very reluctant to add static weight to a bridge, such as the barriers for a bike lane, after the bridge has been designed and constructed for a different weight. There may be legitimate arguments for why it is possible, but it really makes...