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I am all for a working waterfront, but I wonder if we have over-zoned the Designated Port Areas (DPAs), where uses are limited to water-dependent industrial uses, in certain areas. DPA land makes up most of the Mystic River waterfront land in Chelsea, Everett, and Charlestown and big chunks of...

The loss of the Old Post Office, demolished in 1929, is also a bummer as well. According to the Wikipedia article, space needs and the fact that the building had "become an object of derision in the face of a modernist backlash against Second Empire architecture" led to the demolition. That...

This is debatably reasonable, but I couldn't find a moderate transit pitches forum, so... I would love to do something big with Mass Ave from the South End to Central/Harvard Area. The #1 bus is the fifth most heavily utilized route in the system which is pretty remarkable as those busses sit...

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I'm just so happy that the project is happening and they're decking over the Pike that it overshadows the architecture a bit. Maybe I'm a cheap date, but the Before was so crappy, and the benefits of this so much greater than the depressing highway in...

I was impressed by how green the skyline was for the Celtics game --

I grew up in Southern NH in the 80s and 90s and my parents took us to Boston pretty regularly for daytrips. The one constant of these trips was Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market. We would wind up at Faneuil Hall to eat, or shop, or just walk around. We might go to a museum, or the North End, or...

5-19-2023 --

They are not messing around on this one -- a very active construction site well past 8:30 pm at night (on the two nights I walked by this week). I wish they had this kind of urgency for Commonwealth Pier or for any public infrastructure project ever. These are from Thursday and Friday --

Am I the only one who finds the general density of BlueBikes stations (and number of bikes at the stations) lacking a bit? I would argue that neighborhoods like the Seaport could easily support double the number of existing stations and bikes --

This is from the corner at Hyatt Place and the Rotary (5/14) --

I agree with you that the improvements make Government Center better, but I still think GC is pretty terrible. The photos you posted show people passing through the space, which you would expect because it takes up a lot of real estate and connects to a lot of high traffic areas (Faneuil Hall...

5-14-2023

If you haven't had a chance to check out Rose Town Kitchen & Bar on the second floor of the new Canopy Hotel -- I can't comment on the food -- but it's a great spot to grab a drink, people watch, enjoy the Greenway views, and ponder what Boston looked like when a big elevated expressway...

This 'makeover' cost $95 million. The Government Center MBTA station improvements cost $82 million (although constructed a few years earlier). I'd much rather they invest the cash in the MBTA than in continued makeovers of Government Center that won't address the root problems.

From the Yawkey commuter rail stop this past weekend --

The Fan Pier Steps are definitely a hit. Having tall ships docked there doesn't hurt, but this is buzzing every nice day. These are from Saturday --

I don't know how successful the new little North Meadow pocket park is going to be. Accessing it from the rest of the Greenway is interesting. It's separated from the North End parks by an alphabet soup of I-93 ramps. You walk on a narrow little sidewalk along Cross Street past the ramps. It...

I mean it's all relative. Winchester could and should do more obviously, but they are much better than average. For example, there are the Brooklines of the world, which sign on to bold regional pledges to create more housing, but then tries to kill a new affordable housing proposal as soon as...

Waterfield Lot - Downtown Winchester, Mass - Four-story building planned on a one-acre lot adjacent to the Winchester commuter rail station with 60 residential units of which 40 will be affordable units https://www.winchester.us/919/Waterfield-Lot-Development The Town of Winchester deserves a...

The view from the top of the 'Grand Staircase' Trying to imagine what a new building would look like next to the ICA