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^every.single.day It's basically how the entire Boston area gets produce

A sullivan-chelsea-airport route would be ideal. Possibly better then the current incarnation of the SLX mall-SS routing.

I think it's an improvement. The huge tower feels way too much like Atlantic City, while this scaled down version fits in contextually with the rest of the area. It makes the casino just another business, not the end all of the downtown. And that's a good thing.

Me too!!! And it's just been a while since I've made a graphic... But I did it fast and in paint. Whoops.

First of all, beautiful pics DZH. You really managed to capture how fantastic the tower looks in real life, and how it dominates from pretty much everywhere. Secondly, holy crap does Boylston need to loose a lane and gain a ton of street trees. It's absolutely barren compared to the test of the...

Waltham would still have a CR stop, at the old central mass station site. You can't do CR and RT side by side through Waltham: the two ROWs are only two tracks. One has to be CR and the other red line, and the existing commuter rail makes more sense as the transit line.

Which has more merit? Cedarwood would be HERE, on the other side of 128, behind the Biogen complex. The Fitchburg line would have to be rerouted through Waltham along the old Central Mass ROW, reconnecting at the park-and-ride. The whole ROW from Waltham to Hill Crossing was four tracks...

The Hilton and Westin were both built in the 80s. I wonder if it would make any economic sense for them to reskin. Both are interesting enough shapes, and surely they could rent the rooms for a higher price if they had larger windows to capitalize on the view. The Westin in particular is ripe...

Cladding is coming along, as is the new Boylston Court entrance. None of that is relevant to this picture: It's truly amazing how Milenimum fits in so perfectly with the high spine, despite being so disconnected from it.

Damn, the Hilton is fugly.

You're not really going to see it from most angles. Partners Phase II and another lot yet to be figured out are going to block it from Grand Union Blvd, and the only remaining view is from the tracks. Or the Casino, heh. IIRC, the garage isn't just for Partners either. This thing has a full...

Yeah, the sidewalk the front door opens onto is Boston. Funny history there, from what I've been told Boston basically said that section of Brookline between Comm Ave (Brighton Ave at the time) and the Charles was theirs when they annexed Brighton.

Caught one of the overhauled type 7s out of Lechmere (3610). Has a distinct new car smell, and they either replaced or retinted all the interior plastic. Looks like the heat was upgraded too, the metal covers are much shinier then the rest of the steel. All new graphics, upgraded (bright!)...

Meanwhile on block 6, since they started work they've been digging holes then filling them up again. A few days ago they left one open, you can see it roped off in this pic from Friday: Today some remediation folks showed up to gift wrap an old pipe: Awkard village people party? They're...

Echoing Data and ASAP: I lived, walked through, and ate in the new Charlesview. No issues at all, and the market rate townhouses seemed to sell out immediately. They were better neighbors then most of the townies in the existing neighborhood. The problem is the entire concept of "projects"...

It's fun reading this thread while looking at it It's a shame my camera lens is so tiny and flattens everything out. It actually appears dramatically closer then this in real life.

I think the casino is going to wind up being tied far more to Assembly, and watever happens at Sullivan than to Everett. The site is kind of on an island as it is, so I think that, plus the surrounding prosparity, may help insulate it from the Atlantic City effect. If anything, it will probably...

I only quickly skimmed, I'm kinda busy, but they lost all credibility at this graphic: Those "unused/abandoned" tracks are the Grand Junction branch to Everett. They are used every single day by the produce train. So if Boston wants to, ya know, have fruit and vegetables, you need to keep...

It's in the works. Likely pulling permits, etc. I know the final concept is still being worked out too. In short, things are happening.