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I don't like it at all.

I think workers there wouldn't mind safer conditions to walk in - but i bet the business owners want to keep the development pressures far away.

I could see that accelerated bridge program-style construction taking a lot longer with the hamster tubes in/out of the Inner Belt area.

The problem is that if you have to construct an actual underpass - you have no way in/out. I mean - unless you go super Dutch engineering and can make install a prefab underpass in 72 hours.

Biking things never have any clear consensus, eh? I've ridden over the red lanes in Brighton and down toward Haymarket on Blue Bikes and they are very grippy. Almost too grippy. A lot of the green ones are the same - either they're ridiculously grippy (at least at first) or they're kinda slick...

That new material seems to take forever to install. I suppose that's why the cities around here seem to be limiting their green bike markings to smaller areas.

I feel like each line & branch of the rapid transit network has that "one" station which is the source of some naming ire/ache/complaint. For the GL subway, I think it's between Auditorium/Mass/Hynes/ICA and Government Center/Scollay. For the GLX, I guess it's East Somerville. For the RL, I...

The E-somerville station access being on the side of the tracks that is farthest from the geographic center of East Somerville is just the cherry on top.

I was looking at both the Reading and Needham corridors (together and separately) this weekend thinking about "what if you could "through-run" trains like they do in East Asia?". In the end, it felt like it would be better to just extend the OL to both those terminii instead of doing a...

You mean an errant radiator or three?

Scheidt+Bachman appears to be finding their way to continue to do work in MA (only). What's wild is that the faregates are so wildy unreliable - refurbing feels like a penny-smart pound-foolish kinda action.

I don't think Lechmere is *that* far down the O'Brien highway that a infill station would make sense. As much as I think the distances could make sense for an infill station, the surrounding land uses - the new GLX yard, BET, the commuter rail lines, only the tiny corner of the Cambridge...

That's not infill. It's also doesn't improve the GL (or any other heavy rail line) travel patterns either.

Laurel Paget Seekins has got it right. I believe in transparency, but, I also believe that optimal is often not found in the extremes. Radical transparency as she describes sounds to me like one of those extreme ideas that doesn't actually work in actual organizations. And in particular, the...

Wait. This is a hardship variance. Is there not a further planning approval needed given the use at the site? Or was that already secured?

They may exist but i don't think they're actually used as much as you may think.

That just means some of the project managers are not going to be managing their projects. I don't see how this is going to actually be helpful with making the projects happen any faster. Crikey, the Safety report even called out the over abundance of meetings of the FMCB as complicating factors...

This graphic makes me want a Lake St/East Arlington Station. :)

I know there's a lot of reporting about the U.S. having sky high construction costs and I think one of the making factors that i keep on coming back to is this point. No region has a sustained capital program that keeps on building year after year. Paris, London, Tokyo, Seoul never really stop...

I blame the filter on the Google Pixel camera.