Recent content by Roxxma

Not to mention Central Square in East Boston, and Central Square in Woburn

I know that in Burlington the DPW plows most of the sidewalks, at least on major and secondary roads, beginning in the residential areas and moving to the commercial areas after. The town has at least one of its own little sidewalk plows, and I've seen plows trucks with a side plow for...

Ditto, and true, from the platform, but there is no signage on the surface level. I always thought that exit could be served better by a second, wider stairway and escalator to the left side of the fare lobby, which would come out somewhere in the middle of Washington Mall. That would improve...

The MetroWest Tunnel runs three hundredsomething feet below my sister's house in Southborough, and her only concern of it was "WTF is this?" when the Order of Taking for a thirty foot wide easement through their mineral rights at the tunnel's current depth came up in the title exam when she and...

FWIW, per the Navionics Webapp, the Cape Cod Canal maintains a depth of 32 feet. Not that it matters much, filling it, even partially, ain't gonna happen.

This is where I would chime in about the need to require comprehensive and thorough driver education in order to get a license, but per the report in UHub, "Transit Police report the driver was arrested on charges of driving without a license and negligent operations - and add the driver was...

I used to be an interpretive ranger there (and other DCR -née Department of Environmental Management- parks in late 90s and early 00s) and there was talk about putting in a small stop to accommodate a handful of trains (they would have limited the number of tickets sold per day and added a...

It's too bad they never reopened the observation deck and its bar. I used to go up there almost weekly throughout the 1990s, when anyone could hop the elevator and get off at the deck. I only went during the day, so I never saw the bar when it was open, but it was a really cool space.

You and I probably bumped elbows back then, though I was more partial to Newbury Comics because they seemed to offer more interesting merch and had decent events, like the time my friends and I wandered in to a then-mostly unknown Elliott Smith playing an in-store concert. I bought his XO album...

The Orange Line was bustituted south of Ruggles this weekend, so train arrival info wasn't updated until a northbound train came online at Ruggles. I waited at Back Bay on Saturday to no arrival info on the northbound display signs, only to have it activate when the next train was about four...

That's probably because the DCR doesn't have its own police force. MDC did, but it was folded into the MSP during the Weld administration.

Most probably won't be. The rules governing affordable housing prohibit separating them from market rate units and require that they be distributed among other units.

It wouldn't be the first time, I flew round trip from Boston to Frankfurt via Brussels on a SABENA A310 in 1995. Per some chatter elsewhere, that route began in the 1980s. I think it remained until SABENA went under and was replaced by SN Brussels Airlines, which (I think) ran it for a little...

I've long thought as an alternative, they should put up plate/E-ZPass readers and charge private vehicles a $25 or $50 "toll" to drive in the bus lane.

Also the 1970s Haymarket North tube under the Charles, and the tunnel north of Maverick to Airport built during the Revere Extension in 1954.