Recent content by vanshnookenraggen

Amazing that Star Market is still kicking around.

Never seen those modern T station headhouses before!

They aren't cost effective if you have to cut an entirely new ROW through there. By that I mean, via tunnel or viaduct. There is little room for redevelopment until you get to Northgate. Those numbers aren't daily riders, just simply people who live there. Not all of them will be taking the T.

The curves of the highway make station location very tricky (if not impossible) for ADA platforms, limiting where transit can be effective. Not to mention, it's not like the highway was built to connect walkable areas. It's a terrible ROW for transit, period. Honestly, the longer I look at...

This really is the most "Boston" skyscraper: elegant, modern, boring.

After all these years, I've given up trying to imagine I've ever had a truly original idea. But a good idea somehow always keeps coming back. The issue with "Haymarket East-North End" station is that the Central Artery Tunnel is in the way: Now, the tunnel I'm proposing would have to pass...

Been a loooooooong time since I've sharpened my MBTA crayons, but here's my pitch: Build a branch of the Green Line that connects to the inner loop at Gov't Center that runs along Hanover St, then under the harbor to the Navy Yard. Now, much will depend on the design of the bridge. But if...

From the article: That isn't irony. That's how highway bridges work. I'm all for adding transit to the new bridge, but it seems that the most effective way to do this is through bus-only lanes that could one day be converted to rail (or dual use?).

Guys, chill.

I like how the building will come pre-graffiti'd on the Pike side.

I moved the conversations on data centers here: https://archboston.com/community/threads/data-centers-from-downtown-financial-district-infill.7251/

There's an architect on my pool team that lives in a house like that in Connecticut. Because of course he does. But it really is something.

Just gets worse and worse. I hated the Jenga version, but that was better than this slop. Any architect that draws trees on a skyscraper should have their license revoked.

Anything that adds more street running is a non-starter. You make some assumptions that aren't really true: Arsenal St really isn't wide enough for a dedicated transitway given its importance as an east-west artery, and neither is the B&A ROW.

Are those ads for The White Lotus?