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The scale of garage you're talking about would literally be world record breaking. The record is 20k spaces at the West Edmonton Mall in Canada. The traffic management challenges of even trying to get that many cars into and out of what you're proposing would be legion; for context, 20000...

Looking at that picture though, would the center truck derailing have done that? The only way I can see how it could get into that position is if it split the switch with the front bogie going down the Medford tracks, and the center truck the Union - but from reporting that was meant to be a...

I sort of understand; I realize the treehouse has something of a following, and that they refuse to distribute their beers through liquor stores in favor of "the onsite experience" - I think the look is reminiscent of their other locations, but this only seems to be an online order pickup point...

I'm fairly sure that the name Providence Plantations was innocuous for its time; at the time of its naming by Roger Williams RI only had something like 500 non-native American inhabitants, and it was under him that they passed that antislavery law in 1652. Frankly, Newport, the Rhode Island...

Hi rail access - basically a portal for trucks. The only other place on the north side where they can get equipment and stuff into and out of the Red Line tunnel between Alewife and JFK is the 1st Street Gate on the Longfellow Bridge, which isn't exactly convenient. As I understand it, the...

Not to get sucked into their neighborhood debate - I know it's tall, but it's proportions are very off to me. I wouldn't mind the tower on its own, but with how it's all matchy matchy with the low rise, all I can see in the elevation is one of those factory icons. Remove the sawtooth roof, and...

Apologies for replying in a different thread, but you are indeed correct, and I am wrong - I had previously assumed they'd want to keep it on MassDOT/publicly owned land. The below is the current plan, and it's an interesting one - not least because IQHQ owns the proposed site, which apparently...

I don't think now is a bad time for them to begin to advocate; with the T's hi-rail portal going in into Thorndike, it's reasonable for Arlington to ask for that design to not preclude an extension and at a minimum could provide updated paper on how to connect to the existing tunnel. I'm of the...

As I recall, the gap between Exit 2 & 3 (or whatever the new numbers are out there) is the 5th largest in the entire national interstate system, which is kind of a ridiculous statistic when you consider how small the state is. Unfortunately, when the state did the study on adding an exit from...

I don't think anyone disagrees with interchange improvements generally, but I'm curious about the I84 one. That one seems to be basically geometrically perfect - basically flat, long sweeping smooth curve, good sightlines and perfect lane math on 84 for 2 lanes EB and 1 WB on 90, same on EB 90...

In interesting bus news, apparently the first BEBs are mostly built, and should show up in Boston in November. Apparently, we should expect the first 10, 5 standard 5 with left side doors, to be delivered this winter. (Edit: evidently complete with new zig-zag yellow stripe) That begged the...

I'm pretty sure the journalist at the Globe who first reported on this story got it wrong, and everyone since has been repeating it. Hasbro HQ comprises two buildings. 1027 Newport Ave is the main one, and the address they put down as their HQ. That was built in 1899 for the Potter & Johnson...

Let's not give the MBTA more assets to maintain, especially in a category they have no expertise maintaining. Plus, I'm inclined to keep the DCR parkways with DCR, rather than MassDOT, as I do want them managed over the long term as a park asset first, not as a transportation asset. DCR has been...

Bluebike dock site selection is a BTD thing, rather than Parks - I rather doubt the reconstruction is going to affect future blue bike installation. Their website says they're going to be looking for new sites in that neighborhood next year, and also provide a broad picture of what they consider...

Are we talking about in the park proper, or just happens to be on park land? I know there's a few docks on the edge of Franklin and Marine Parks for example that are definitely on Park property. Afaik, theres a strong preference that they're curbside - plus they need to be somewhere where they...

I mean, It's been capped and is no longer active - right now it's basically a hill with a solar farm on top. It wouldn't be a noxious neighbor. Danehy Park in Cambridge is also a former landfill, surrounded by residential areas - and it actually only closed something like a decade after the...

I *think* that's just prep for the Roosevelt Circle restoration work - (the bit that got hit by an oversized truck in 2021). it took them an age and a half to get around to it, but I believe it's MassDOT 612786.

Unfortunately RLX is probably a generation away, but I agree that the preferred car sink here isn't a tunnel under Mt Auburn. In the interim, if you don't want to deal with Fresh Pond, the interim solution should absolutely be Alewife Park n Ride. (At the moment I do strongly believe the redev...

They still do, for things that the public wants to get deep into and generate public debate - see the thousand page PDFs that were published for GLX, or the extensive documentation that's so far been generated for SCR, Allston Multimodal and the Cape Bridges, or even concepts like Red-Blue or...

It'll become doubly important when they have to close Lake St yard for its type 10 compatibility demo & rebuild (edit: which I believe is going out to bid this winter as part of the B branch accessiblility rebuilds?) thankfully the Reservoir Yard trackage is funded for $30M of trackage...