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Those 1983 photos remind me of how far we've come with bus lanes, bike lanes, and "active transportation" (i.e. bikes, e-bikes, scooters, etc.). The absence of these things in these old photos is jarring. But we've still got a long way to go.

You have me convinced. We can't shut down facilities because of fear. The root causes need to be addressed instead.

The one concern about pedestrian underpasses is they sometimes turn into hangouts for unsavory characters.

That sounds good, but politically has zero chance of happening in the wealthier towns inside (and outside) Rte. 128.

It is and it isn't. With Boston, you can go 15 miles out and be in what appears to be the "country", but in many sun belt cities you go 15 miles out and its still wall-to-wall development. The Boston areas network of large park reservations like Middlesex Fells, Blue Hills and several others...

It's not that the new Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment building is actually built from cheap materials, it just looks cheap, mainly because of its poor visual fit into the context of the neighborhood, as discussed in the posts above.

I looked at their website, and something like their One Bennett Park masonry rower in Chicago would have been great for the South Station Tower:

The V-shaped piers remind me of the Lyrik Back Bay.

These beautiful buildings are going up along Rutherford Ave, yet Rutherford Ave itself looks all the more like a freeway to hell in a third world country. Man, I do hope Boston rebuilds this decrepit, barren 1950s speedway sooner than later.

Thank you BeeLine for the great photos of this project and the other projects you posted tonight. Excellent and very much appreciated!

Great photos! The 2nd one especially reminds me of a whale's skeleton, which is a nice connection to the history of whaling in Massachusetts long ago. .

I agree the Whoop building is in a league of its own, with its pinkish faux brick paper thin panels, one of the cheapest looking buildings I've seen in my lifetime. This Shreve, Crump & Low redevelopment bothers me because it looks like a 1980s DC agency HQ building, or something from a Rte...

This building is on a par with the Whoop building in Kenmore Square for an ugly, cheap-looking building dumped into the middle of a neighborhood of fine older buildings.

Looks great with a lot of density everywhere except for west Chelsea south of the Chelsea Silver Line stop. I would think that would be prime property for residential development.

I've always really liked Chicago. The music scene there is fantastic, and there seems to be a lot more high-rise residential. Also they seem to take better care of their road and transit infrastructure. I don't see as many rusty bridges and overpasses there, and they've been replacing...

That last photo in Chicago is awesome, an absolutely beautiful structure. I love elevated lines if they're done right, which that one is, on its own right-of-way, not hovering above a narrow street, and very aesthetically pleasing. Elevated structures that are higher in elevation, and/or are...

I like New Bedford well enough. I went to UMass Dartmouth for my civil engineering BS degree, it was a great college, and I loved going there. I really liked the Paul Rudolph design of the campus and its buildings. I was the first, and only, person in my family to ever go to college, as my...

Boston is the 5th most expensive city in the entire world, according to this article: https://www.masslive.com/boston/2024/08/the-worlds-5th-most-expensive-city-is-in-mass-new-study-reveals.html

I hope so. One problem with a (largely) featureless concrete hulk of a garage like this is that the concrete ages badly in this climate, getting badly stained and dingy after a few years. I would recommend applying a thick coat of paint in ten years, or sooner as needed.

Great photos, but that garage is one hulking, grey, plain and boring structure.