Recent content by Stlin

There's a lot less on Foulkes campaign site about RIPTA than the RIDOT bridge issue, which is predictable, but it at least got a mention - whereas I can't find hide or hair of Mckee having made any forward looking statements about RIPTA in the past year. At least Foulkes stated plan, while...

Does that still exist? They just built a new plaza at Baker Ave Ext & RT 2 that features a Starbucks, Chipotle & next door a recently renovated restaurant now turned into a Dunks. Edit: a quick search seems to indicate that only applies in the established "town centers" of Concord... And it's...

https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/files/cdd/zoningdevel/specialpermitsadvisory/sp410/sp410_presentation_20260915.pdf New planning board presentation, as part of the project receiving its final special permit determination yesterday. Minor adjustments to building layout and reductions to...

I'd say the Greenway is at least a world class case study on urban highway relocation. Also, out of scope for this thread, but see below post to a link for the ca2015 BRA/MassDOT planning effort to improve the ramp parcels cover plan...

So, uh, a thought. At at what point does an ADU project become just... someone's backyard for the purposes of AB? This one abuts a public street and impacts the streetscape so it's at least valid infill, but Liberty is just barely not an alley.

I don't think we'll ever get full height platform doors. I believe, and I could be wrong, that the T's system relies at least in part on the piston effect of trains traveling to ventilate stations and tunnels. Plus, our stations are old and funky - enough that I suspect the most we should expect...

Not going to lie, this is what popped into mind. That said, that's apparently a terracotta tile? It looks very different in varying lighting, but in some photos that shade is remarkably close in some to that sage green MassDOT likes to paint its bridge girders - see the painted bits of the GLX...

Different group - this was/is used by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and it's Youth division. (They're shutting down at the end of the season.) While nice enough... It doesn't really bear that much of a resemblance to the BSO's space, but I admit it being an acoustic twin is actually quite...

Mind if I ask a question about general methodology here? When you say the T is operating N% of its pre-COVID bus service, it appears that you're generally reading across the total local trips line. Can I ask why that line and trip count generally as a metric, rather than another metric? In my...

Personally, I'm mostly annoyed that the Magnolia there on the corner, which they were supposed to protect, has looked extremely sickly this summer, and indeed mostly dead - you can see it barely has any leaves. That was always a beautiful tree. Otherwise the building is great infill.

So, I'm eating crow - this was, indeed, an official MBTA image. And even with SynthID watermarks, I'm going to walk back my position pretty far - with the cleaner version posted by the T, it's pretty evident that the trainsets are far too consistent to be AI generated, and the widett area is...

Back in 2018 I was voting in the 3rd, and had voted for Dan Koh - I'm happy enough with him as the candidate. As the runner up by literally 143 votes back then, he certainly should be familiar enough to the establishment. That said, perhaps challengers should take a page from the last sucessful...

See below; the page headers are the source, but these are the enabling laws effectively for the initial creation of the Quabbin under the MDC, now the MWRA, and the later 1947 construction of the Chicopee Valley Aqueduct. Basically... The state legislature of the time was intent that the surface...

Impressively fast! I assume you saw the same news I did?

This regional airport, in a effort spanning the past couple decades, is on the cusp of receiving commerical airline service by next year - or so the airports governing board hopes, as they have recently embarked on a multi-million dollar capital program to lengthen runways, build a new control...