Recent content by jlichyen

If you want to put all the complainers in their place, name it The Catherine.

My understanding regarding the planned regulations for US-Canada trains is that a designated station (Vancouver & Montreal) handles all customs & immigration in both directions, then the trains run sealed to the border. If this system is not the case, then I sincerely hope they head this way...

What is it about the UM system that is holding back USM?

A New York Times reporter found something relevant to this forum to discuss while she was on vacation: It sounds to me like a lot of the problems stem from the simple fact that Maine is extremely cheap if you have savings from a New York or Boston salary, which drives up the price of all the...

In a development like this, is it possible for the ground floor units to be converted into commercial after completion? A small cafe in one of the rooms facing Cambridge street would probably be possible, especially if you combined adjacent apartments.

I'm hoping that, based on this substantial investment, L L Bean understands the issue you describe. After all, their own press release states in the first paragraph that their Freeport campus is the second-most-popular tourist spot in Maine. Anyway, looking forward to whatever campus plan they...

Maybe i've posted this here before, but perhaps this map may be of some use to folks here? It is called "Greater New Jersey Railroads" but actually depicts all the lines around Boston, including everything south of Portland ME (the author is still finishing all the Maine routes) EDIT: been...

I was in the Philippines recently, and that's what a big percentage of their power lines look like. Walk around Manila and you'll be dodging wires all day!

The 3D render looks like an evil lair from a Nintendo 64-era adventure game. If the black has some texture to it that doesn't appear in the render, I think that would look a lot better, though still of the "mad scientist base" type. The site says it has 1.1 parking spaces per 1,000sqft -- is...

are MBTA staff forbidden from openly participating in forums like this or Reddit? wouldn't surprise me. Also, a fairly common complaint from private-sector urban studies scholars is that the public sector organizations are both 1) so bloated and inefficient AND 2) so uncompetitive in pay that...

Random question: anyone here know who the "Hobson" in "Hobson's Landing" is?

Any possibility of using the space under the elevated for shops or playgrounds? Or will it just be relegated to a parking lot?

Is this replacing the parking lot at 130~134 near the corner of Morning & Turner? The 3D model looks like it's using the same exterior panels as most of the (non-brick) buildings in the neighborhood, so it mostly just looks like a triple-decker with an extra floor, to me at least...

If you're tunneling, why stop at Savin Hill? Turn that TBM up to 11! Plow four tracks all the way to the Dorchester/Adams intersection, then 2 tracks to Ashmont, and another 2 to Braintree via Neponset -> Hancock -> the parkways. Overkill in the extreme, perhaps, but what else could you do...

You joke, but that's exactly what they're doing in Pennsylvania...