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Thanks! I'll be eager to read the paper with the details if you are able to find it.

Yes. Sorry - "apparatus" is fire nerd-speak for "fire truck." American urban fire departments tend to think they need big, beefy monster trucks instead of things designed for tight corners and narrow streets.

Fair, but this feels a lot like the "crosswalk of death" underneath I-93 in Somerville...just with a lot more space for cars to get up to speed. How's "maimed and killed yearly"?

These are all compelling arguments, but it feels like any proposal to remove the bridge has to come up with solutions to a few questions: As @Equilibria pointed out (albeit in a sideways way), this is a major way ambulances rapidly access the Longwood Medical Area coming from Harvard Square...

That's cute the architects think the city will be buying any Euro-style apparatus any time soon.

I've heard an interesting idea floating around that an attempt to max out the Providence Line's capabilities like this would pay additional dividends for local transit, by giving RIPTA a rail-based spine around which they could orient their bus network vs. trying to build something like that on...

From today's MASSterlist email newsletter (put out by State House News Service):

Could someone who's an actual engineer or architect answer a dumb question of mine? All that rebar shows they're going to be building up those support columns even further. But since concrete shrinks when curing, you'd think it'd be impossible to pour after those decking beams go in and still...

Maybe it's a play for Gen Z ridership. They really love the 90s aesthetic. https://www.depop.com/products/nakedfrogs-vintage-windbreaker-jacket-purple/ While they're at it, they should just license the "Jazz" design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)#/media/File:Solo_Jazz_design.jpg

Last time I was down there, maybe 3 weeks ago, the beginnings of the markings had been put in place already. No red paint yet, but I thought I saw the white outlines down in some spots?

"Illicit feedback," eh? Like, they want comments written on a brick of cocaine?

Is the white swoosh on the side of each option a safety thing? Because it feels very "late-2000s RV graphics" so I hope they ditch it.

The big challenge with making the pitch to Brightline, or using its business model, is that its financials depend on subsidizing the rail piece with lots of TOD. And with all due respect to Worcester, Providence and points in between, I'm not sure those markets are hot enough that you're likely...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/22/metro/mbta-delays-safety-problems-philip-eng-gov-healey/ Looks like an unannounced safety stand-down happened this week.

Most Chelsea residents don't work in Kendall, though. They work blue- and pink-collar jobs downtown, in hospitals and industrial areas, and at the airport. It doesn't do them much good to make their commutes longer when, to @Teban54's point, they'll get Kendall connectivity through the SL3...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/09/20/massdot-starts-planning-for-tobin-bridge-replacement Looks like it's time to revive our earlier discussion of just what you could do with a project like this...

Looks like this idea might have more legs than the 700-foot skyscraper originally enjoyed. @Boston35 caught this and shared it in a different thread:

It's funny you say winter feels like a "terror." Maybe it's because I was in my teens and 20s when I lived there, but other than the 4 p.m. sunsets and learning to cover my face once it got below 25 degrees, it was still pretty fun? Things like the Loppet race and the Art Shanties still kept the...

My recollection from living there was that you find better pedestrian experiences in the neighborhoods -- Northeast, Linden Hills, Lake Street, Cathedral Hill in St. Paul -- but there's no getting away from the fact that it's a Midwestern city that took advantage of all the elbow room they had...

A follow-up. I looked more closely at the Staniford/Green Street junction and there's no two ways about it: You have to eminent domain at least the north-east corner building owned by an "M. & E. Kern" to make this work, if not the next-door "Boston S.D. & Tr. Ca."-owned building. I wonder if...