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Under BNRD: The 101 is getting extended from Medford-Sullivan into Meford-Kendall via CC. The 7 is getting extended from Downtown-Southie into Sullivan-Southie. Both routes are intended to be frequent (every 15min or better). The bus lanes on Rutherford would help make that happen...

Based on the way you've drawn it, is there a stop at the terminals in addition to the BL Airport stop?

No, you're not being too critical. The rotary in front of Union Station sucks, and the walk to DCU is lifeless. Kelley Square and downtown have seriously improved since I moved away in 2018, but the corridor you walked is still gray and automobile-oriented.

Two things: There's car access, and there's bike/ped access. Mid-century suburbs limited both. These affluent grid neighborhoods (like east somerville) are limiting car access without stopping peds or bikes from getting through. If you limit car thru-access without providing alternatives to...

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BS. A 250sqft unit in beacon hill is currently going for $2000/mo. Now imagine a place "half as desirable" as Beacon Hill. Allston, maybe? A $1000/mo tiny studio in Allston would be life changing for some people.

An evidence-free assertion! Americans, just like anyone else, will tolerate all sorts of discomfort, as long as that discomfort is made up for in other ways. Boston's housing market is hot enough that basically anything can be rented at the right price. I assure you there would be pleeeenty of...

@Blackbird I think you're fundamentally proposing two different things here and it's complicating the debate. Are we replacing forests in 495 with dense small-lot street grids, or with more suburban-oriented huge lots on dead-end roads? I could be sold on the merit of the former: these new...

Finally, some good news. I frickin love BlueBikes.

This is where you lose me. Other than lowering housing costs, everything else about this makes life worse in the town. More cars, more need for parking lots and big box stores, less green, fewer preserved wildlife corridors, fewer trees drinking up CO2. Why raze forests to build SFHs when we...

Crazy people: We shouldn't build anything new, ever. We should have left this decrepit manor rot in place. Or spent millions to turn it into a museum. Other crazy people: We shouldn't feel the need to preserve anything, ever. Absolutely nothing was lost here. Aesthetics don't matter. Huzzah for...

The confusion around this is why housing advocates need to stop saying "ban single family zoning" and start saying "legalize multifamily housing" STAT.

Does it bother anyone else that these headlines are always Train crashes into car rather than Car is hit by train after disobeying signal or even just a value-neutral Car and train collide ? Or am I reading into this too much?

tldr, she is not against the law, but she believes that the state was obligated to provide implementation funding starting in 2021 and failed to do so. Regardless of whether she is right (she probably is, in a technical sense), I bet that the "unfunded mandate" clause will be taken out of...

My low-information speculation is that Healy sees zoning reform to be publicly palatable, but sees a radical increase in the cost of driving as political suicide. I am all for making drivers pay for their externalities, but I also respect Democrats' need (particularly since Trump's election) to...