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In addition to late night, expansion of service hours the other way the early mornings shouldn't be left out - I'm hosting a med student on rotation, and they need to arrive at BMC by 5am. That's not a bad trip from my condo on transit, except for the fact it doesn't run early enough for them...

If you're referring to the parking lot, that isn't actually Coast Guard property. The facing walls of the building basically trace the property line, so the full width of the lot area (including sidewalks) is actually part of the Northern Ave right of way, and is owned by the city.

Thats the thing though about leasing - they'd be asking an investment bank to soak up that upfront cost. The T wouldn't have to front load that - the premise is that some capital leasing firm will. The T is basically hoping to go "Hi! If you guys, ABC financial, will buy 5 trains from Stadler...

The difference is in their plan to lease the sets, and the difference in how that's accounted for. Setting aside the question of "where will they find something to lease" It's ultimately a time value problem - even if it costs more in the long run. Financially, leasing means they limit upfront...

In listening to Eng in his latest GBH appearance, he's talked about the choice of BEMUs on Fairmount. To paraphrase, "BEMUs allow us to take limited dollars and we can deliver this now. And it doesn't mean that in the future when dollars are available we don't come back and run full corridor...

I imagine that's the Amtrak interlocking work; I don't think there's anything out there that shows the proposed layout, but I believe that this is separate from the proposed "Springfield Area Track Reconfiguration Project" - the state got 1.8m in CRISI money for preliminary design in 2022 but as...

I was recently in a hotel in NYC where that was almost true - In a small enough footprint that seems unavoidable.

The annoying thing is, despite its prominent facing on New Chandron, it's street address is 54 Canal. Searching that address, the building appears to be primarily offices - including the ground floor which is evidently occupied by a design agency. I imagine that lack of street activitation leads...

I I don't know if it was when you looked, but when I'm on the site I can still see all of the documents attached to each application. For example, for the newest project (Project Lite Brite) I still can pull up the PNF.

You know, I'm not necessarily annoyed about that. It's a fairly common complaint that existing "family sized" (≥3 beds) are occupied by groups of roommates, or older households and not those with children. Admittedly, 5 beds is particularly large, but I don't think it's a bad thing to expand the...

Unfortunately not - while there is specific language for the 213 neighborhood/community space licences it creates, the very first section in the legislation is very straightforward - it increases the cap on traditional licenses by 12, with no language restricting them to being non-transferable...

Its not that the license types are easier or harder; because there's a hard cap on the number of licences, getting *any* liquor license in Boston is difficult for restaurant owners, and the cap is also per type. Most of the historically issued licences are unrestricted and transferrable by...

Per Reddit, there is a new MBTA map out there, featuring a significantly de-weighted Silver Line, and phase 1 BNRD in a style not dissimilar to what @TheRatmeister has done.

Given Dover-Russell is the core of Davis Square, I'd personally rather they "go all the way" and do it properly the first time around - either the version they were kicking around before the pandemic, which involved two-waying the currently one-way Elm & Highlands and removing the connection to...

Sure, not having adjusted for income, it's absolutely a confounding factor, but it's one with an interesting correlation question. I'd like to dig more into the literature, but do people live in cities because they don't have a car, and need closer/transitable access to services, or by living in...

Was a state party present? A governmental body, or unit thereof, is different in protocol terms than two private companies. Massachusetts literally has an Office of International Trade and Investment, and I'd be shocked if the Korean Consulate in Boston wasn't involved in some way with that visit.

I mean, a significant part of this is going to be accounted for in "when did those towns develop?" The US population was ~130M in 1940. The 200M we added to get to 330M largely coincided with the automobile as "the way of the future" and suburbs. The UK was at ~48M in 1940, and only grew...

There is also a middle ground - place based Interventions. You can mitigate a lot of those urban safety concerns through relatively simple actions like regular cleaning and good lighting. It's a evolution of the older broken windows theory, but crime prevention through environmental design...

Just two things: the August subcommittee meeting slide, despite being dated 5/29 claims that there are only 103 bus operator vacancies after the July hiring class. With each class being ~100, if they keep that up, it's prima facie reasonable to assume that they'll have the operators they need by...

The total amount of time the engine isn't on a wing is expected to be about 300 days, including time waiting to be looked at. The shops are at capacity, since the recall is hitting all at once, but MTU is reporting ~100-150 days in shop. That problematic disk is deep in the core of the engine...