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    State Street HQ | One Congress | Bulfinch Crossing | West End

    Walking over to North Station yesterday and caught this beautiful angle.
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    Cambria Hotel | 515 Somerville Ave | Union Sq | Somerville

    Bow Market may work for you, but, to me and a number of folks I'm in community with, Bow Market's events are highly problematic. It would be incorrect to say that they are built into the fabric of "the community." They are built into the fabric of the White dominant culture in this area...
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    If You Were God/Goddess | Transit & Infrastructure Sandbox

    The LA and Orange County region is wild. Basically the big LA basin (and the OC flats) are almost fully developed, add the San Fernando Valley which is also there in the City of LA. Also in LA county, the additional development on the Antelope Valley and add the growing Inland Empire counties...
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    MBTA 2021 - The year the MBTA stop sucking?

    OL deliveries are delayed due to problems in Springfield and some manufacturing/logicstics (?) issues RL deliveries - ditto GL trains all pretty much delivered GLX appears to be able to meet some sort of 2021 delivery mark - appears to be some risk that they aren't going to be 100% on 12/31, but...
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    Cambria Hotel | 515 Somerville Ave | Union Sq | Somerville

    You know - I wouldn't mind it if they kept the exterior in the purple color. I bet some neighborhood type would blow their mind about "character" but, there's plenty of bold color choices up and down the Avenue.
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    In a 15-year time horizon, I do understand that. I suppose either Colorado's intercity bus or an Amtrak thruway bus could make the connection between the Front Range corridor trains and potentially time with the Chiefs at either Bent's Old Fort or the gender-affirming surgery capital of the...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    1. Ha! metropolitan Cheyenne doesn't exist. I've been there. Cheyenne is such a small ... uh ... city? 2. The Front Range and Wasatch Front with their senior water rights will make out okay in most potential futures. The real questions are the locations with junior water rights. Arizona...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    That the Front Range route seems to stop at Pueblo (yay testing site!) but not go to either La Junta or Trinidad to connect with the Chief seems so ... shortsighted?
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    Just imagining that there's all this light coming in from clerestory windows and such. I'm worried that the renderings show all the internal lighting but nothing of the natural light.
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    Kenmore Square North (WHOOP) | 533-541 Commonwealth Ave | Fenway

    The gap between the buildings makes me worried. There was a decent street wall that large of a gap there seems like it breaks it up just. A bit much
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    I don't look on with any nostalgia for the state of disrepair. (I have managed to not catch that local bug.) But, with the new developments it seems like yhe progression from platform to concourse to station building and into Boston is like a mad dash into the sunlight and open air. I would hope...
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    I'm really sad to see that this current phase and the future phases of this project appear to be encasing the commuter rail platforms in concrete. One of the best experiences I've ever had in train travel is to arrive at a terminal station like South Station and have an airy entrance to a city...
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    Midtown Hotel Redevelopment | 220 Huntington Avenue | Back Bay

    None of these make the mark for me. The previous and the proposed seem overly regular and remind me of Government Center. While the middle with the less regular columns and rows, which is a relief, feels a bit dated already. And the apparent loss of a balcony space adds to the sense that the...
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    Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Time magazine decided that Gen Y should be Millenial. And it stuck. The photos are quite awesome! And the last set in particular made me miss roach-coach plaza so much!
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    They don't have to be digging up things for the constructors to have marked the location of utilities (especially red - power).
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    If You Were God/Goddess | Transit & Infrastructure Sandbox

    LA doesn't really fit that unipolar model.
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    I think a lot of the educational institutions seem to be saying that they'll return to on campus education in September. That also means instructors, affiliates, and also all the support staff will return. They all cannot drive so I think Labor Day will be much wilder than typical with moving...
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    The Official MBTA System Map

    From what I take, this is the person who took that Russian entry and made it work within the MBTA's graphic formats.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Circling back to the future MVP station and the consideration of bus routing changes with a future Route 16/MVP station. I'm imagining the bus destinations from here to the west are: West Medford - Arlington Center (80/94/95+) West Medford - Winchester - Woburn (134) West Medford - Arlington...
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    The Official MBTA System Map

    I could not find a thread about the Official MBTA System Map (TM). (Apologies if there is one, but the search function revealed the map contest from a few years ago and the (unofficial) scaled track map.) The official cartographer and graphic designer who makes the official map will be doing a...

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