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Self storage is a great suggestion and an amenity that exists in many apartment and condo buildings. It's not a great departure, nor is a problematic noise or safety issue. In the city where square footage is limited, storage space is at a premium. During our hunt for a condo, we turned down...

I did a short stay in London this past weekend (leave Thurs, return Sun) and tried B6 on the BOS-LHR route for the first time. Great service (better hard and soft economy product than competitors), but flights were only about ~60% full to my eye. I had a row to myself each way. MINT looked...

We did BOS-LIS on TAP in November and both of our flights were very full. I'm thrilled to see Delta on the route. I've flown TAP several times out of convenience and necessity, but I really don't like it. It's a low cost carrier in disguise. The boarding process is clunky and while 8kg for a...

I'm all for it if they could do it properly. I just don't believe they would. Masonry is a big part of it, but it's not the only thing that needs to be done well for this not to look like a cheap replica more at home in Vegas or a theme park than center of one of the country's most historic...

I'd love it in theory, but I just don't see how something like that gets built in a way that doesn't scream "Disney knockoff!" The lower levels would almost certainly be concrete instead of granite. I don't think we'd see real masonry instead of precast panels on the brick segments, and the...

This is a great way to describe it. I happen to really like CX because it is urban and connected to the city around it. Lazy is fair, and praising the architecture is borderline silly. But there's ground level retail, a street wall that hugs the sidewalk and creates a decent pedestrian...

The timings sucked, I think. And while it may not have been an issue for you, the Aeromexico nonstop was priced something like 2-3x higher than DL (connecting at JFK) or on UA (connecting at IAH). So on the handful of occasions I flew between BOS-MEX, I opted for the connecting flights even when...

If they coordinated the downgrading of Route 18 with the commuter rail project, I guess they theoretically could have extended it another 1,500 feet or so to the edge of downtown without disrupting too much. That would have been nice. But I don't think the current location is a killer.

Oh yeah, definitely. I'd rather commute 90 minutes on the train than in a car or bus. But 90 minutes commuting each way is still 3 hours per day spent commuting. It's certainly more palatable than driving, but I don't think it's appealing enough to have an outsized impact on the the city in...

I think it would be easier if it was just a little closer, but I do think the walk in New Bedford is a good deal more straightforward than Lowell. The 90 minute ride is going to be the most off-putting aspect of the trip.

I'd like to see the usage stats too. But I would be surprised if the new one didn't perform better almost right off the bat. The existing bridge is a pretty forlorn experience. Even if it served a practical purpose (like connecting a walkable urban neighborhood to a transit station), I think...

Yeah, it's the existing right of way. Something a bit closer to downtown and better connected to the city around it would have been ideal, but that's not doable without being substantially more disruptive. The location really isn't that awful. It's still walkable to downtown, and the city/state...

The bummer (for me, anyway) about losing Bowdoin is that it's a more central location between State and Charles MGH than Government Center. Obviously Government Center is a far more important station (one of the four transfer hubs) and it's clear which of the two would go in this scenario, but...

Their Instagram Story was updated today simply saying "Summer 2023."

Is this a testament to expected demand, or is it more about operational expenses? It's cheaper to send the A340-600 to BOS than to ORD, DFW, DEN, etc. So I could see them choosing to fly it to BOS and send the far more efficient plane to further destinations.