Recent content by JeffDowntown

It is meant as a joke -- but the Pike and Soldiers Field Road will both be severely impacted whenever they get the Allston Multimodal Project underway. They have to be because it is a total rebuild project for the Allston stretch of both roads.

The new Bowker Overpass is schedule for completion, such that the lane closure on the Pike will reopen for two weeks, to be followed by a multi-year lane drop for the Allston Multimodal Project rebuilding both the Pike and Soldiers Field Road at the same time.

Isn't this why some short sections may need to be tunneled rather than surface?

The dive watering holes, pubs and taverns around The Shoe were particularly picturesque. Especially if you liked fight scenes.

Pretty much underscores that most of the cost of construction today has nothing to do with the physical build on the site.

Lawns work if you don't drive a lot of vehicles on them (like the performance space you show above). We drive vehicles all over our event spaces because that is how Americans do things. Vehicles cause a lot of damage (and too many crowds moving a lot, too often) and result in costly...

Perhaps we need to accept the idea that parks and heavy foot/vehicle traffic event spaces are not interchangeable spaces? Designate some event spaces and accept that they are not really parks. Designate some parks and admit we should not use them for heavy use events. These combination...

"And we are ready for the final section of Volpe to collapse to the right.... and it is going left, OMG!"

One or two delayed trains and the waiting area fills to capacity.

The ticket passenger waiting space is way too small. The Metropolitan Lounge is worth the admission if you are in Business.

Arlington's density is 9,000 people per sq mile, significantly higher than Quincy (6,200 per sq mile), for example. (And Quincy has 4 Red Line stops.)

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health just hosted (May 20) their annual Problem Gambling Conference at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, for example. Lots of MA government agencies host conferences in convention facilities.

Expansion talks are starting up again: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/21/business/convention-center-expansion-south-boston-mcca/

Exactly. Starchitects typically don't do basic building modernization and "blending in" projects.

Final MBTA departures from downtown stations are between 12:20 and 12:50 AM. It is not just restaurant workers, many service workers get off at 2 AM. For example office cleaning crews work a 6 PM to 2 AM standard shift. Those lights are not on in all the office buildings to make them look...