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Yes, the Newton circle of death (the east one) and Galen St form the most-direct path to Watertown Sq from the the highway, and that 5-plus-way intersection constantly gridlocking the neighboring streets. Even Galen St itself should be a fairly pleasant street with some fine grain urbanism, but...

It might be a hot take here, but I still think the westernmost segment Birmingham should be replaced by a pike westbound offramp, with the goal of reducing pressure on Watertown Square, which is an absolute clusterfuck. All westbound traffic has to get off there and double back to get to eastern...

^ You can't really tell the layout of utilities, HVAC, support structure, stairwells, and elevators just by looking at the front of a building. Those might all have to change. As this board has discussed a billion times, offices centralize all their plumbing into a limited number of giant...

This thread is largely full of people who have never been to the area and have somehow convinced themselves it's the next Seaport.

Democracy is why. The state pitched it as the recommended alternative way back in 2017 but the public hated it: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/design-development-routes-279-interchange-improvements-natick...

For the record, there are four crossings currently, and those crossings are at poor angles and are rather wide. You're always going to have four crossings unless you rule out slip lanes and roundabouts.

In what way? As I recall from other posts on this forum, the underground "ROW" has already been cleared of utilities as part of the Big Dig work. Station locations, ingresses, and egresses have already been identified. The main thing to do is stick TBMs in the ground at the portal locations...

I don't know what I expected but this looks like a super standard suburban Dick's store.

Since it's already at 75% design and DCR isn't MassDOT, I know it won't happen, but I swear the western spur of Birmingham should be totally eliminated and replaced with a WB pike ramp. It should take a lot of load off the disasters that are Galen St and Watertown Square. Soldiers Field Rd...

Pretty much this. It's basically: "I helped secure money for justice! You wouldn't vote against someone who supports justice, right?"

The lighting of the CarGurus logo and crown look great.

Are you sure? It's not reflected on the T's slow zone dashboard at all. Was it re-added?

Then why would they block it off? They could just leave them turned off like normal stairs.

@king_vibe Yep, that's exactly what happened. Thank you for sharing the article about Gregg.