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We, both the advocate and professional side, really do not do enough highlighting of the cost discrepancy between bike investments and auto-oriented investments. "Here's what a routine mill-and-pave project on West Bumbleton Street would buy you in bike investments". People make the fallacious...

Take this fwiw but the MBTA has asked our graphics department to no longer include Plymouth on any maps we produce.

My understanding from previous city statements is that they want to put a facility on it, like a field house or something. Having trouble finding exactly where I'd seen that before but people mention that here as well.

There seems to be a complete disconnect between people who are toying with ideas and people who are having a visceral NIMBY-trauma induced fear reaction where they're interpreting that as "these things MUST or even should be preserved".

Perhaps a stadium with cool and unique architectural elements. Cut the no true scotsman bit. It's perfectly valid to think it would be a cool element to include in the stadium and no one is suggesting just leaving what's there there for the sake of it.

The reaction the "incorporating a smokestack into the stadium would be cool" discussion gets is weird.

Swampscott is consolidating its elementary schools into a single unified school at the site of Stanley Elementary School, due to open this fall. We recently completed project with the town for bicycle and pedestrian improvements in the approaches to the town which can be found here: Safer School...

The big players in this space guard their data incredibly (and infuriatingly) tight.

Glad to see it and huge improvement over what's there now. That being said I think I think activating Granite Street frontage is going to be a really difficult lift with the highway right there. It's not a pleasant street to walk down and I can't imagine enjoying sitting outside on a balcony as...

Love the concept on the whole, though I would personally opt for a less detailed pine tree.

I came across a recent study I really wanted to share here but couldn't find an appropriate thread. Rather than waiting until the topic came up I thought it might be useful to create a thread to share new (or otherwise useful) academic research into urbanist topics. The one in particular that...

https://fussandoneill.maps.arcgis.com/apps/CrowdsourceReporter/index.html?appid=a3ccb13c650046c098fdc87ef9a06bda Suggest your bike/ped improvements for Quincy!

Introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren & Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1368 A summary from Boston.com: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/07/30/warren-introduces-new-bill-targeting-the-housing-crisis/ tl;dr:

In classic Quincy "Yes...but," fashion, I love that this development got done....but man that is a lot of street frontage eaten up by a bank.

In terms of the future of the corridor writ large, the MPO did a full corridor study of Route 9 in Framingham/Natick published in 2022.

Per MassDOT, the AADT of Rt. 9 through that intersection is about ~100k. 52EB and 48WB. Rt. 27 through that intersection has a bi-directional AADT of ~16k through the intersection.

Came across this this morning, for those that hoped that the olympics would have brought about transformative impacts for the MBTA and other regional infrastructure: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-03/as-paris-olympics-near-los-angeles-officials-worry-about-preparations-for-2028...

So actually just came across something comparable (though not a map) in LiveableStreets Alliance's 2023 progress report on GoBoston 2030. Notably GetAround and Turo don't appear to have been considered carshare, but none the less page 22 states that 72.9% live within a 10 minute walk of all...

The new Quincy bus garage is starting to rise up.

Yes, especially when the ridership on some of the phase 1 changes is dubious compared to existing crowded routes.