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Same! Looking at the 1938 Bromley map, I'd guess this is how they'd do it -- I *think* there's just enough distance between Levrett Circle and Nashua Street to get underground, if you use the Canal Street Incline as a template -- they might have been tempted to do an Brattle Loop-style, set of...

Some big yikes: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/13/metro/t-acknowledges-three-new-near-misses-this-summer-after-feds-rapped-agency-sloppy-safety/

I guess One Congress "officially" opened today. The Boston Business Journal has a slideshow of the (pretty big-looking) club or whatever it is that the captions say is for workers in the building to use...

I was just thinking the start-stop nature of such a service. I guess steam is better at that than I had imagined.

How on earth do you do that with a steam-hauled train??

In a similar vein, I'd be really curious to know how deep the consultation was with BTD below senior levels. Does this reflect their institutional input and priorities regarding bike networks, in particular, beyond what the head (who was generally well-known in transit and bike circles before...

Boston Planning & Development Agency planners, as seems to be their wont (sorry, folks - if the shoe fits...) threw a bunch of wild-eyed, long-term transit visioning into the latest East Boston rezoning study, including this crayon of alternatives for extending the Blue Line: FYI: If you see...

I do suspect the ability to sidestep any lengthy public engagement process about a permanent change is what's driving a lot of these "pilot" decisions. Not everyone is as brave as Jay Monti in Everett (Mr. "The Pilot Is the Process" regarding the Broadway bus lanes) but the sentiment is there...

The small size of that parcel feels noteworthy. Most ground-up labs have had pretty big floorplates, for various reasons.

A few Cape legislators are also raising the topic of adding a lot more Boston <> Hyannis and restarting Boston <> Falmouth trips. I also shared this in the commuter rail thread:

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD4555 Rep. Dylan Fernandes (an up-and-commer, plus the Islands' rep) and the two state reps who cover Sagamore, Sandwich, Barnstable and Hyannis are trying to raise the issue of launching commuter service to the Cape. Some key bits: We'll see if it even...

I don't think so. When I was crossing the bridge Monday morning it had workers moving around on it.

It gets better (or worse). On the wall of that overpass abuttment facing towards Lomasney Way, is inscribed that famous boast about the West End: "The Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven." I say worse because, in context, surrounded by busted-up sidewalks, roaring traffic on the street...

And also unlock 85 acres of land that could wind up getting developed into Boston's third satellite downtown (after Sullivan Square and the JFK/UMass-Andrew blob).

Capella Tower: the Phil Mickelson of skylines.

Auckland, NZ (pop. 1.7M) runs their entire regional rail service (largely 3 trains/hour) on narrow-gauge EMUs due to a quirk of history and is currently carrying 45,000 to 50,000 passengers daily on a weekday (and a pre-pandemic high of around 2.1M monthly trips) across their two-and-a-half...

@ritchiew's post about the Cape bridges reminded me of a cross-canal rail scheme I doodled a few years back after a weekend trip left me spending way too much time stuck in bridge traffic. This is more for illustrative purposes (for example, it makes liberal use of highway medians and there are...

Some of it's down to serious difficulties getting financing, but also there's a lot of fear out there we could still be in for a recession -- and if you bring a big, expensive-to-rent apartment block online in the teeth of a downturn, you're going to be in some definite financial jeopardy. In...

It does certainly seem like, one way or the other, you've got to go up or down from the Red Line mezzanine, vs a horizontal move. I agree that a Park-style cross-track ped access point feels like an incident waiting to happen. Here are the different stairs and elevator shafts that currently...

I saw that, but is that really workable? That'd force all pax to go up to street level to change between the three lines that would be intersecting there because those GL tunnels would wipe out the lobby-level connection to the Red Line. Alternately, I suppose you could make the transfer via a...