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Your detailed post probably deserves a more detailed response than this, but I think the answer is simply: Boston's inner core of 1.6MM residents (orange), which roughly corresponds to the "sea of gray" you see on our satellite view, is significantly denser than the core of American metro areas...

I understand that BLX to Kenmore is on the GLR map because it'd provide a Lime->Blue connection that'd otherwise be lost with Lime's terminus being cut back from Govy to Park. Imagine a world where there's funding & willpower for GLR, but not for the BLX to Kenmore. Was there any analysis of an...

Would that really be a good use of time and funds? I ride this path twice a week, and while I wish the crosswalk were a bit wider to accomodate 2-way ped+bike traffic, I never wait for more than 10 seconds and have never had a close call. I would rather that effort and money be spent on one of...

Because you'd rather they sleep in Davis Square or...?

Woof. Is there any reason to believe that this accusation is true, or is it as bad-faith an argument as it sounds?

Might be more about driving brand awareness than about getting people to make a purchase. A lot of folks haven't even "taken a look" at Rivian.

Because Medford/Tufts has higher demand than Heath, or because the GL trunk couldn't support more Heath<->Medford/Tufts trains?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

From the Globe, here is the summary of 2024 Ballot Question 3: So by default, I'm basically in favor of anything that makes car culture pay for its externalities. In this case, I imagine that means securing a living wage for rideshare drivers so that the state is not indirectly subsidizing Uber...

On my commute every day, standing on the Lechmere platforms, I love seeing the completed upper floors of this building peek above the brick streetwall. The deep red really does mix nicely, darker than the modern brick buildings but distinct from the historic Registry building. Now all we need is...

Honestly I love the idea of having an amusement park within Greater Boston, but the fact of the matter is there is capital ready and eager to clean up the waterfront and build the stadium, whereas that is not the case for an amusement park. If there were two competing proposals and one was...

At risk of mincing words, you're taking street to imply cars, which is only true for the past ~100 years. Faneuil Hall Marketplace indeed is divvied up by two pedestrian streets: N and S Market Street. They are streets in the old sense of the word: public places, always open, always traversible...

OK, let's support business growth in these places. Not easy, but not a "Maoist level of revolutionary change" either. The Inner Core contains mostly streetcar suburbs. 1.6 million people, almost a quarter of MA's population. Right, nobody in Camberville has kids, got it. Just because I want...

Agreed. My point is that housing production is a Good Thing even when it doesn't lower rents for the exact place that the housing is built. Thus, neighborhood rent is a bad metric for evaluating the success of YIMBY policies on affordability. IMO, the only metric that matters for evaluating...

You are implying that a significant increase in housing stock would lead to a decrease in rent, yeah? I feel like that's a safe assumption for a place like Boston, which is already a highly desirable and expensive place to live. Hartford, though, isn't so high-demand. Its median rent is below...

If this is true, then those incentives are misaligned. Broadly speaking, the developer should be incentivized to make decisions that make their development economically attractive. If the town is on the hook for the developer's bad decisions (for example, actually not providing enough parking)...

I am talking about the Boston metro area, particularly the MAPC Inner Core. I'm not deluded to think that rural/suburban America will switch off of cars in the near future (although there is plenty of incremental improvement that can be made to small town centers, as Strong Towns advocates for...

For much of the US, sure, but when we zoom in on the Boston urban area, I have to disagree. I accomplish almost all of my errands around Somerville without a car. Groceries, clothes, medical appointments, exercise, hardware needs, even niche things like single-origin spices, they're all a walk...

When we talk utilization, are we talking % of offices leased, or % of desks actually being used on the average day? A "fair amount" if people going in 3/5ths of the time we mean well below 65% desk utilization, so I imagine we must that the 65% number references leases, not desks. When it comes...

I'll also observe that even though transit ridership is still lower than pre-pandemic levels, VMT is back to normal and increasing. People are not going to work as often, but they are going somewhere. Why are they choosing to drive instead of ride transit? Perhaps it's because their...