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Obviously the traffic congestion on the multi-bus routes and downtown Boston would be really bad. But I'm wondering about the purpose and need for doing this. What is it other than a one set ride (stuck in grid lock)?

Even at 9 minute headways, couldn't the at-grade crossing signals of a West Medford GLX be operated in favor of the rail transit, with cross-traffic stopped every time a train goes by, within reason of course. It seems that with transit activated and transit preferential signaling at the...

The respective cities should enact zoning of these parcels to mandate residential, at least on major portions of the development sites. That would require some political courage and foresight.

That sounds like. Victorian medical treatment.

I don't think anyone on here wants to preserve all the tanks and smokestacks in Everett. The only concern I had was that the future development of old industrial land in Everett could be jeopardized by an overemphasis on industrial preservation. That may sound paranoid, but when I was a...

For prioritizing rail transit extensions, I'd put the Red-Blue BLX Connector and the BLX to Lynn as way ahead of GLX to Mystic Valley Pkwy.

Glad the area is getting developed. For 150 years it was a light industry backwater (brick yards, toxic chemical plants, and the Cambridge city dump). The next step should be redeveloping the Fresh Pond shopping center into a mixed-use, walkable development with an actual street grid.

My main concern is that preservation of tanks and smokestacks could become a "thing" that ends up becoming another political hurdle.obstructing development.

How far should this preservation of old industrial facilities go? The Metropolitan Warehouse in Cambridge was, without question, worth preserving and repurposing, but these oil tanks? Really? They're ugly and usually the wrong size and shape, plus they get in the way of new buildings that...

That first photo looks like its underwater. Very strange and interesting effect there.

Maybe they could convert the tall smokestacks to high-rise residential? ;)

The families each got about $50, and that was it. A snowjob by any metric.

I guess "dirty old Boston" wasn't so dirty after all.

They will serve no "whine" before it's time. The gears of multiple bureaucracies mesh very slowly together to accomplish something this big.

They're wonderful; very MIT nerdy in a quantum physics kind of way, such as two things can be in the same place at the same time.

To me, it looks like South Station suddenly sprouted an outgrowth, like a large quartz crystal from a granite rock. But all in all, it is a great project for Boston, even though I'm not crazy about the way the glass tower looks in the context of the stone masonry South Station.

1940's East Boston, in unbelievable clarity, like it was taken yesterday. It apparently starts at Maverick Station when the surface trolleys used to ramp down into the station. When I was a kid in the late 1950s, the ramp was still there, and you could see it ramp up to daylight from the BL...

Good video. Obviously the "renewal" of the West End should have been done surgically, replacing those few buildings here and there that were beyond the pale, and rehabbing the rest. The Federal urban renewal policies of the time, however, did not provide funding for this type of rehab/spot...

Those are really awesome, with a "steam punk" look about them.

Great photos, but they remind me of Smurf houses with that color blue.