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I was doing nothing of the sort (and thus I'm genuinely sorry you misinterpreted me); I was merely pushing back against Johnnyrocket's post, which I feel was typically divisive, populist, class-baiting, Us Vs. Them rhetoric--more Howie Carr Lite.

Still Beantown Pub... and Hub Pub... and Sidebar... and Elephant & Castle... and JJ Foley's... and dozens of our very modest eateries and cafes in the immediate vicinity, to satisfy any fetishization of the working-class heroes out there...

Or, he's merely descended into Kabuki theater-style calisthenics, telegraphing his desire to run NU's Dukakis Center once he leaves Congress? (just a guess; zero insider knowledge) Landsmark turns 79 next May. Anyway, I'm just as disgusted as you, at least in terms of the flagrant puff...

Although the point of an office is of course to pool workers efficiently to maximize productivity so as to increase competitiveness/eventual ROI, a secondary benefit to it is that, IF it's a non-toxic officeplace culture that employees enjoy convening at, then it may help alleviate the...

Don't forget the grandaddy of all Boston fountain debacles! Per the photographic evidence, that City Hall Plaza fountain was massive, spectacular, grand and dramatic. And then it got bricked-over quite quickly (I certainly don't recall it being in existence as early as the late 1980s)...

Hopefully, in 20 years, if the zombie apocalypse/nuclear winter/runaway global warming hasn't set in, those trees will be 2x their current height and starting to spread a serious canopy, like back when old Burnsie ruled the Winthrop Square roost... as it is now, they're obviously not providing...

"It really ties the [urban] room together"

It is a massively convenient space that people pass through. I pass through it all the time; it's a great conduit from the western to eastern Financial District. And it is interchangeable with its neighbor, 75-101 Fed, that people pass through, in that regard. So what are you actually trying to...

Another angle to consider here (in terms of where to archive the thread on this forum) is for the moderators to rename the "Councilor Wu's Proposal To Abolish The BPDA" thread to something like Modernizing & Rationalizing Boston's Urban Planning [BPDA Overhaul, Zoning Reform, Squares &...

What a profound jackass and insufferable snob. Let's shred his deeply misleading arguments straight from the top, shall we?: "one of Providence’s great urban design failures, the carving of the city in half by Interstate 95." Interstates are FEDERAL projects. Why on earth is he assigning...

Genuinely glad you're following-up on this and very curious to see more results... however, assuming you did your metro Boston drive mid-week (i.e., Tues/Weds/Thurs), shouldn't you also be doing these comparative tests mid-week as well, on the assumption that, nationwide post-pandemic, metro...

Now just do 6 more, at the other I-95 overpasses within the core (Point, Clifford, Broad, Cranston, Washington, Broadway), to re-knit Downtown to the rest of the Westside... [hey, a boy can dream, right?]

Sadly, not remotely surprising.... but I find it extremely hard to believe metro Boston's traffic is meaningfully (*statistically significantly*) worse than other great metros across the country. For example, here's 3 other 37-mile itineraries I just mapped-out: 1.) LA: From the intersection...

https://www.boston.gov/public-notices/16161006 If people truly care enough, they should show up to the hearing.

But how many of them are looking up?

Key clarification! Of course I'd assumed the bow was discontinued decades ago after the Artery came down... I'm surprised they've stuck with it, given how the spectacle has gone from 10,000s of daily motorists, stuck in heinous traffic, staring at it daily, right at eye level, t/o December, to...

In a very odd way, 177 Milk suffered significantly with the demolition of the Central Artery, in that it no longer had the platform for wrapping the giant Christmastime red ribbon around it each December. That was one of the more memorable branding gimmicks in late-20th century Boston that I can...

Yes! "Little Buddy" [as the Radian tower was once hilarious termed, by someone far funnier than me, on AB] Used to be Townsman; now Stillwater*. Stillwater has actually operated there continuously since August 2019 per Google research, so, there was no pandemic-induced gap at Radian between...

I'm quite sure 1 Lincoln has never had restaurants--just massive expanses of gleaming marble in its huge L-shaped lobby, with equally massive expanses of abutting brickwork on its abutting sidewalks.... wonder what nearby tower you might be thinking of?

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/board-lets-company-renovating-downtown-tower-buy [New very large restaurant coming to 1 Lincoln St. secures liquor license] So, this one prompted me to do some digging... first of all, it's going to be very very large, 13,000 sq.-ft. per the Licensing Agenda...