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That makes sense. I've also read reporting that it was also a change in the atmosphere (or the perception of the atmosphere) at City Hall -- that developers were more willing to jump into the pool because they perceived a friendlier reception waiting for them, regardless of whether or not that...

This brings up a concern I've started to have about schemes to run the Green Line through Porter: How on earth are you going to connect it to the existing Red Line station, and offer a behind-the-fare-gate transfer? On the latter, I guess I can accept waving away the question of rotating the...

Another argument in favor of the Watertown branch -- it connects three life science hubs (East Watertown, Alewife and East Cambridge, near enough to Kendall).

Flood mitigation would make sense. That stretch is perennially swamped at high tide during storms.

Also, don't forget about the planned T7 high-frequency route connecting Sullivan, this project, North Station, South Station, the Seaport and City Point.

Unfortunately between still-high demand for construction services (meaning contractors can get away with charging an arm and a leg sometimes) and stabilized-but-not-deflating construction materials costs (remember: they jumped up a bunch during the pandemic), buildings cost a lot more to put up...

Car! Floats! Car! Floats! Hy-dro-foil! Car floats! (sorry)

I wonder if it's just a practicality thing. Timber is a lot easier to replace in the event of a wayward boat than concrete.

Yesterday's "Getting There" newsletter from the Globe included a note that apparently the Army Corps of Engineers hasn't been terribly responsive to efforts to do as little as boost CapeFlyer service (The Cape Rail study from 2021 essentially says they need to be brought on board to increase...

That really adds to my conviction that any quality urban ring service won't occur until those oil terminals upstream of the current bridge are decommissioned and the area removed from the Designated Port Area.

A pigeon display case if they're not going to seal off the bottom of the glass curtain wall...

Maybe someone at the T is planning a quick trip down to Fall River and a more emphatic way of protecting bus lanes from intrusion by drivers.

Off-topic from your interesting points, but this reminds me of a small detail where I've started to question most sketches on here how to complete the final UR Chelsea>>Airport leg. If the Coughlin Bypass is now firmly necessary to keep truck traffic out of the Day Square/Eagle Square chaos...

I thought the slope of the hill Broadway goes up in Everett, not to mention the fact that Broadway is realistically too narrow to do anything other than curb-side transit lanes -- and maybe too narrow to accommodate catenary? -- makes surface-running there a non-starter? And we all know what...

Sure, the Globe editors just showed how credulous they are when it comes to transit stuff: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/18/business/boston-transportation-innovation/ But they also just helped collect all the buzziest gadgetbahn ideas in one place so they can be efficiently dunked on...

Unfortunately, that's one of the new BEBs. They just haven't taken down the wires in the Seaport transitway, so it makes it look like a trolleybus.

Le Grand Boston Express, non?

It's kind of funny (if you're the sort of person who finds punctured pretensions funny) how the timber bumpers/barge guide things on either side of the main channel really spoil whatever "cool look" this architect was going for. They look way more out of place here than on something...

I'm no expert, but electrifying the Fairmount line in 18 months from a standing start sounds....extremely, extremely ambitious.

We were talking in the Crazy Pitches thread about 128-area circumferential transit and Burlington's big (4.4 million square feet of new development, 1,800 new housing units) in-process rezoning, and that made me start wondering: Since that Burlington rezoning appears pretty clearly premised on...