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No True Scotsman much? This is more ped-centric and less auto-centric than it would be if had a 2:1 parking ratio, roads between each building, no retail, and zero rapid transit access. That's worth something. Do you really dream of cities that are ped/bike/transit centric? If so, how would...

If there wasn't a market for this kind of housing, they wouldn't build it, unless (a) they're dumb or (b) there's some weird incentive for them to lose money on this project, which I'm not aware of. People aren't born car-centric or non-car-centric. Yes, people have habits, but those can change...

Honestly, I like it. I think it juxtaposes and highlights both the Grain Exchange and 88 Broad St in a way that is very Boston. I only wish it were taller.

Downtown Boston also gets an absurd number of visitors every day. Downtown has far more visitors than it does permanent residents. People visit awesome places, it's a fact of life--the only way to stop them is to make the place less awesome. It's better to capitalize on the tourism and buiId...

Ped-oriented housing, hotel, and green space, a 12 minute walk from the D line?? This is a no-brainer. To the Brookliners opposing this as "out of place in the neighborhood"... f off, this is not a neighboorhood, it's a goddamn stroad with parking lots on one side and a cemetery on the other...

Do you mean the former? Or, if you mean the latter, how does NSRL open up space?

Alernatively, if there were a nice wide shared path along Alewife Brook Parkway between Alewife and Mass Ave, as well as a great sidewalk-level cycletrack up Mass Ave to Arlington Heights, then cyclists would have an alternative high-quality route to use during construction. This something we...

Instead of RLX, what if the GL-D was extended to Porter and then in center-running transit lanes (shared with the 77) along Mass Ave up to Arlington Center?

NIMBYism aside, @Charlie_mta , if you were Supreme Dictator of the Commonwealth, are there any Boston-area highway expansions that you think would be worth doing? Or would all your highway pitches be road diets and transit/bike conversions?

That's cool, dude. I would like that, and personally, I would also like a rail tunnel under the Atlantic. But, please come back to our real world where MassDOT has a total of $16B to spend over the next five years and $12B (!!!!) of that is already going to roads. Your 8-mile...

Just for nerdy reasons I really really wish there was an objective way to measure "urban population size". Basically what you're doing here (manually drawing polygons based around areas dense-enough to warrant trams, I assume) but with an objective formula. I'd love to be able to compare and...

Wait, you want to spend SEVERAL BILLION dollars tunneling under Cambridge so that people can... drive their cars into Boston more easily? I thought we were past this on aB, but, this is straight up one more lane bro territory. I drive through Concord Turnpike / Alewife Brook Parkway interchange...

Based on this guy's posts in other threads I recommend ignoring him rather than engaging.

Nice! I think I'd move the Lincoln Sq yellow stop a block or two to the south, closer to the Abbey and other downtown goodness. Maybe, one day, Lincoln Sq could be a place worth walking around (esp if they do something creative with the Aud) but at the moment it's just an autombile wasteland...

Not sure. I ride the GLX daily but I'm rarely on the western branches.

There's a new automated announcement on the GLX reminding riders that they can tap to pay on the trains (and warning them that they will accidentally pay if they stand too close to the readers).

Yeah. My sense is that the GL-A branch restoration, if it ever happens, would just be an incremental improvement to what the 57 does now: local service for Brighton. Past St. E's, it would certainly require sacrificing at least one of: parking, 2-away auto traffic, bike lanes. I still think...

OK, I'm with you on the idea that more WFH would give more leverage to the buyers/renters who are no longer location-constrained, which should lower prices some amount. That said, I'm not convinced that it'd move the needle enough to make it worth for the state to put its thumb on the scale...

From the GLR thread I gathered that the flat junction at Copley is a big issue for GL trunk frequency. I assume that Bay Village would be a flying junction.

@Teban54 's green line reconfig map suggests that the some northside Green Line trains would use Park St outer tracks to continue up through the Pleasant St incline (near Bay Village) and continue to an el from South Bay, over 93, then over Melnea Cass, to Nubian. The key idea here is that...