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    🔷 Open Thread

    Flew back into Boston to disapprovingly meet one of my daughters' fiance. It went much alike: https://youtu.be/LS-ErOKpO4E?t=43s
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    🔷 Open Thread

    Meanwhile in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0rplcH32g Russian criminal cannon fodder demonstrating neo-soviet tactical brilliance or lack thereof. Open field liesurely being strolled across + exceeding ideal engagement distance of man portable anti-tank weapons + BTR petrol tanks...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    So my wife turned 60. We took several months off to sail around the world during which she decided it was time to quit practicing law. She retired and now is an amateur beekeeper. Did I mention she is allergic to bees? There are also now jars of raw honey all over my kitchen attracting...
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    🔷 Open Thread

    I've been neglecting you while on vacation. Here's my gift to you, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    I thought this was an architecture forum where members liked playing God and not a maritime forum?
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    So wide open suburban parks = bad, but maintaining a giant basin of water IN A PORT CITY WITH A GIANT HARBOR AND PLEASURE BAY =good?
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    Nothing that can't be fixed with a marina.
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    I still think a bridge to Ames Street in Cambridge would help reduce traffic volume across all of the other bridges and calm Mass Ave by more evenly dispersing traffic. The creation and parcel sale of a new landmass in the middle of the Charles would more than pay for the bridge, buying Storrow...
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport It's not an dream, it's a rehashing of old SROs and prewar scale apartments. There's nothing innovative about them other than calling out the BRA's dumb policy of mandating minimum sizes for new dwelling units larger than a significant number of...
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    Marathon Monument

    Alex Jones=Prison Planet=Infowars=John Birchers=9/11 'truthers'=holocaust deniers They are all nutters distracting people from the real dangers and evil in the world.
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    MassDOT Pike Parcels 12 - 15 | Boylston St. and Mass. Ave | Back Bay

    Re: MassDOT Pike Parcels 12 - 15 | Boylston St. + Mass. Ave A CDC isn't a neighborhood committee or community group. They are just publicly subsidized development corporations trying to sponge additional money out of private developers to keep themselves employed. The second it is no longer...
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    Inventing the Charles River by Karl Haglund I believe had the details about the various bridge schemes which never materialized. Darmouth Street had to be sufficiently wide ( 2 lanes each way) to carry as much traffic as the eventual Cambridge (Longfellow) and West Chester Park (Harvard) bridges.
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    Boston Marathon Bombings Thread

    Re: Open Thread Heard everything from my roofdeck.
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    Biking in Boston

    No Ron Newman?
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    Why is Dartmouth St so wide?

    Because there was supposed to be another bridge across the Charles at Dartmouth Street. Botolph's Island was also to be created in the middle of the Charles River Basin at this point as a continuation of the Back Bay landfill development. The explosive growth of the suburbs with the advent of...

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