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You're not wrong - it didn't feel like it had the things I'd expect of an area with that much residential. That character is in the older sections of the area, in between the new development (meaning Vernon Blvd.), but I had to go into Manhattan to find a pair of socks. Granted, the bit of LIC...

Some photos from this week's trip to NYC, featuring the newer construction in that lesser touristed borough of Queens. Most of these photos are from where my hotel was, in LIC. One of the things I appreciate the most about NYC development is that there are relatively few development that have a...

I'm not qualified to offer commentary on your analysis, but I'd like to note that "urbanized area" as per above ≠ metropolitan statistical area or CBSA. 4.3M is the population of the Boston Metro district plus that of the Cambridge-Newton-framingham SA. Unfortunately, statistical areas use...

For want of a better place to put this, but I'm currently in NYC, specifically Brooklyn/Queens. (For those keeping track, no I really haven't been home in Boston much this month.) Outside of the neighborhood bars/clubs, there's a ton of nightclubs etc in that industrial area surrounded by...

Err I'm going to call that not a good thing, at least as far as the Red Line is concerned - by the Oct 6 2023 Weekly progress report, RL signals were at 55% percent. 2 percent in the course of 11 months isn't moving it forward. At least the concomitant OL report was 30%, But the entire OL/RL...

Ah, Commutair. They're the only operator of ERJ145s for UA, but want to be flying something bigger. Those 145s are old - they're all about 20 years old and tired at this point. That said, United actually owns the planes, they just lease them to Commutair. They started a fleet refresh in 2022...

Are we still talking about Northern Tier, or are we talking about SCR? Either way, that's why you give MassDOT contracted coaches the ability to run on the shoulder. Bus-on-shoulder, even if limited to when traffic is below a given speed, makes it a more attractive and reliable proposition.

Which makes sense - even after the physical plant is fixed, I'm sure they've got to go back through and update signals, ATO commands, etc. It's also probably better to have the operators acclimate to 40mph first if they've gotten used to running at 10/25 before asking them to do 50.

With a fairly major addition. The brick building is existing, everything else (the white wrapped bit, blue siding in renders) is an addition built on what was a parking lot. The building is going from ~24k sqft to 43k.

Currently It's like a cabinet post - the best person for those jobs is always going to depend on the governor's preferences, and the job description changes every time someone is in the top seat. Structurally, I'd suggest taking the hiring a GM role away from the Governor/MassDOT secretary...

The C-E gates are scheduled for renovations and expansion, covering the surface parking between C&E with holdroom expansion and a new pre-security walkway, and extending the EIS walkway to C8. In addition, C is getting a pair of new lounges, and l believe the scope of work includes minor...

I mean... The decline of intercity bus ridership at this point is fully a national trend. Dattco who was the prior operator on the New Bedford to BOS route pulled the plug in early 2023 citing monthly losses of 30k, until Peter Pan stepped in to offer the route. The Coach USA/Megabus bankruptcy...

I agree that there is potential for more routes on the harborside. Given that the privately operated water taxi survives, there's clearly demand for more service than the T boats operate. Plus, the city cruises operated "water bus" from Logan to Long Wharf. Just on this point, I maintain that...

Are you suggesting that airport/port authorities, that operate airports (see MassPort, Port of Portland, PANYNJ etc) should also be investing in rail and other modes of transport to nearby cities, as a mechanism to allow them to reclaim gate space for longer, more "flying worthy" routes? That's...

Photos from my trip last week to Dallas. I will say, Boston has a better brutalist city hall, even as it was in the past surrounded by a sea of concrete, but Dallas has better public art and water features.

That's totally fair - the constraints of the information you're trying to show drives compromises. (Also, I just realized that you might want to double check your text generation - it's seemingly got a random baseline, especially around lowercase "a"s and "o"s. See Boston Landing, where the B...

I will say I prefer the fewer parks version. Also, i don't know if it's just a symptom of WiP, or if it is intentional to accommodate the bus lines / other routes but the relationship between station name and it's dot seems... Rather inconsistent, across the map and it caught my eye immediately...

I think this is one of the first photos I've seen that shows the glass's transparency - a lot of prior photos show a much more mirror like effect. I acknowledge that this is the less important face of this building, and that it'll ultimately depend a lot on lighting conditions, but I feel like...

Since I'm currently sitting in the middle of Downtown Dallas, I feel qualified to comment as someone who decided to check Zillow a couple of hours ago. Within a roughly 2 mile circle from ATT Discovery Plaza, there's plenty of reasonable looking <1k 1 bed/studios in East Dallas, and plenty of 2...

I mean... Here it'd be the university acting as landlord for a private bar/restaurant, and it'd hardly be the first university to have a bar on campus in the Boston area. BU has the Fullers Pub, MIT has the Muddy and R&D, Harvard has the Cambridge Queens Head. UMass Amherst for years had the...