Recent content by Schorschico

As a Rozzie resident myself I agree 100%. Frequency beats everything else. Always.

Those flightpaths are incredibly tight, and that is a big problem (first hand experience). The level of accuracy is now at going-through-the-same-street kind of level. Also, if I am not mistaken, noise loss is related to the square of the distance, so being slightly off-path means almost...

Are you actually willing to put money on that? Because that is the safest bet I could get.

This has always been mind-blowing to me. The removal of the overpass could have been/could be a great opportunity for it, now that a massive physical barrier between both neighborhoods is down. I go frequently to JP (Center st.) from Roslindale sq. I would love to take a single seat and leave...

I don't use it enough to suggest how it should be branded, but since one time I was dropped in the middle of car traffic in Huntington avenue, you can be sure I don't consider it an equal, not just to the Orange, Blue or Red, but to the other green branches.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail You are right, but the numbers get (to me) even more depressing if you put a massive number like 100 years. Even then it makes no sense. With 1,000 years it enters the ballpark of reasonable (!). $3 Billion!.

Re: North-South Rail Link As somebody working for a technology start-up downtown, it amazes me how much cheaper it is than Kendall. For us, with people coming from everywhere around Boston the public transport access would make us put a premium for downtown, but instead we get a discount...

DO you want to see me cry? Because this is how you do it.

...the scientific community that also affects Boston very directly will not be happy either. What is a visiting professor/post-doc/PhD-student going to do? International conferences? Look somewhere else. This is madness.

That's precisely my point. We say (correctly, in my opinion): "Internet is terrible compared to what they have in south korea". We don't say "MA has a better internet than 37 other states". It would make no sense. Your new founded company either has access to high quality internet or it hasn't...

*Bold mine Every time somebody writes a sentence like this one, they find the need to add the "American". Nobody would do that talking about internet speeds, airports, highways, etc. Does it make it any better that a public transport system as imperfect as Boston is one of the best in the...

Look at the tram in Zaragoza (Spain). This is exactly how it works inside the historic city center (for aesthetic reasons). I am not sure about reliability but it is absolutely beautiful. The technology is definitely there.

Re: Tremont Crossing project F-Line, what is your estimation ($) for that +1 OL project? I would love to have a number a bit more solid than my own random guesses.

Whoa, crazy! That band-aid project has been going on for years. I lived nearby more than 2 years ago and they were already going at it. Almost 1 year per lane. Sounds absurd for a cosmetic repair. Particularly if it has to take place again in less than 20 years. On the bright side, it makes the...

But the Bowker is being repaired as we speak, right? Doesn't it mean that it will be decades (many) until any alternative project is realistically on the table? Also, unrelated question for you guys with urban planning backgrounds: The code used by Prof. Furth to create the traffic study...