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Odd, the Globe’s comment section assured me this was pennies on the dollar when divided by the number of Milton residents and thus they would just shrug it off and pay it themselves

It’s not for whatever reason though, and this vague hand waiving always seems to be the response to people whining about those damn developers. The build quality is a direct reflection of how difficult we’ve made it to build anything. From the supply side, it’s a massive lift to get anything...

Without disagreeing with that at all (look at Marina Bay in Quincy for example) why is that? The paradigm of the past ~45 years has been absolute accommodation to all concerned parties, which has made development prohibitively expensive. As stated above that’s a reaction to very real problems...

Nothing says one size fits all like basing targets on existing levels of housing in each town and then letting the individual towns each draft their own plan. This law is a NIMBY’s wet dream. And it still isn’t enough for them. There’s no adults in the room, and the state shouldn’t go full...

As I understand it after a conversation this morning, to kill power to that stretch they have to kill the power to the whole Ashmont branch.

The referenced Patriot Ledger article has an interesting quote: It's amazing that even these overlays that are surgically crafted to make sure nothing gets built (they're quoted in the PL article saying as much) cannot get passed.

Noticed the old auto shop at 42 Water St was being demolished. There was a recent sale and mortgage but otherwise I have no clue what's going on there. Anyone know any more? https://www.bldup.com/us/ma/quincy/42-water-street -- Additionally, some early indication that the MBTA communities act...

I know this is only tangential to the overall point of your post, but I want to be clear that the BPDA's South Boston Seaport Strategic Transit Plan, examined the gondola idea and did not recommend it. The plan recommends plenty of other cost-ineffective or outright bad ideas (cross harbor...

I don’t know if it’s fair to bill all of that towards “bus infrastructure expansion.” The Quincy garage needed replacing even in an all diesel world.

Quincy's $4 million plan to add to city parks includes $1.8 million land buy Not a developer!!! Kidding aside, while technically not wrong that there's not a lot of green space in the neighborhood, Cleverly Court Park is not exactly near a lot of housing. I guess that's why part of the money...

That jaunt up Market Street is a pretty steep grade. I remember that being a reason why replacing the C line with blue was considered impractical.

From today's Globe: Can the T Avoid Another Debacle on the Next Big Train Order?

We could really be reaching that point for some of the more urban grocery stores. It looks like the Star Market plaza in Quincy Center is getting lined up. Star Market in Fenway recently got approved for redevelopment.

Per the MPO's website, their archives go back to 1990, so they should still have it. It doesn't appear to be in the digital archive but you can request it by calling them.

Yes, like Boston the biggest challenges those cities face are rooted in the fact that so many people want to live and work there.

If we'd like to talk about something that actually may have an impact on the region's long term population stability: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/07/opinion/demographic-cliff-colleges-universities/ tl;dr - about 10,000 fewer students expected in the Boston region each year. I don't...

It’s a cool map, but just based on the areas I’m familiar with I’m a little skeptical of how robust the data is…Random patch of Weymouth is lit up but Quincy Center is dark? The library is right there as are multiple grocery stores/pharmacies and of course corner stores and public transit stops...

Again though, big upgrades to Cape RTA are pennies on the dollar compared the bridge replacement. Not that the bridges don’t need replacing, mind you, but one has to wonder if bridge replacement combined with robust public transit expansion wouldn’t be more cost effective than bridge expansion...

It’s funny, but you’re really hitting on something. I just wrapped up the selection process for the MPO’s next corridor study, and while assessing various corridors it’s amazing how much Rt. 16, Somerville through Revere, stands out as far and away the most dangerous strip in Eastern MA. Yet...

I don’t think there’s any doubts that better streetlights can improve traffic and safety. Boston is actually a leader in deploying adaptive signals that can adjust phasing to demand from what New England Traffic Solutions (a company that makes and manages them) had to say when I was at a trade...