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I would not have guessed that! Informative as always, thanks [and I presume ample photographic documentation will brought home for me to scrutinize vis-a-vis how far uptrack they end up going...]

So, admittedly it's a little weird to put this in the Freight thread--but given that it involves activities of the Genessee & Wyoming RR, it really seems like the most logical thread to add this to. Anywho... my wife had the foresight to buy tickets for her and our 6-yr-old, months in advance...

Why am I bumping the thread?: 1.) These guys suddenly appeared in my Instagram scroll, so I was intrigued. Perhaps that means they're social-media savvy, for whatever the hell that might be worth in this ecosystem. 2.) So I checked-out their website, which does not appear to have been posted...

Do they, now? Have you conducted extensive polling of said citizens? And what do you mean, exactly, when you say, "nothing ever happens in their city"? You've just made a massively vague and generic assertion here, so I'd sincerely love to see it reinforced by actual qualitative or quantitative...

Googling "One Carey Circle encroachment railroad", I found this informative thread, now of nearly eight years' vintage, including some illuminating comments by some of the "usual suspects" here on AB: https://railroad.net/remnants-of-the-boston-revere-beach-amp-lynn-t38000-45.html Nearly a...

The BPDA's development review process continues to move along at a breathtaking pace: a mere 1,123 days after the project was proposed . . . there will be a public meeting to discuss it: https://www.bostonplans.org/news-calendar/calendar/2023/11/28/11-21-bromfield-street-public-meeting (In...

I have been in that cohort for some time, *exploiting the delta.* I'm continuously impressed by how many riders there are on the Providence line during non-rush hour times in the afternoon, on days when I have to leave work early...

I'd argue that chart pretty much proves my point--the US, Canada, and Australia, as continent-sized countries, have gotten away with piggish housing sizes as a result of their sprawling low-density settlement patterns. Surely Russia and China would've done the same, if they weren't so poor and...

Wow, obviously I had no idea it was such a heavily-used station pre-pandemic--informative as always!

Any future hypothetical South Attleboro station is just 2.6 miles uptrack from the Pawtucket one. If the Pawtucket one is "too nice," then, practically speaking, given its proximity, hasn't it already cannibalized a critical portion of any ridership at the potential South Attleboro rebuilt...

Tiny, perhaps, from the piggish American perspective. But, seriously, consider what legit 500 sf delivers to two occupants, if you want to carve it into TWO bedrooms for privacy: --a master bedroom that's 125 sf --a secondary bedroom that's 100 sf --a 100 sf living room --a 100 sf kitchenette...

In an ideal world, this project completes, with residential/retail occupancy achieved, simultaneous with RIDOT's plan to relocate the transit hub from Kennedy Plaza... but now that this is underway, I suspect this will be done several years before the transformation of downtown's bus hub.

Count me as an "others"... surveying that row, 129 Tremont (at the Winter St. corner) is clearly a gem, but 128 & 127 Tremont strike me as quite generic, bland, unremarkable. Ditto that for 120 Tremont, the SU Law School. You can overdo it on "respectable dialogue/contextuality with...

Looking at their events page, it seems pretty obvious that HSP is very aggressively targeting non-office worker demographics. Look how many of their events start post-5 pm. Check out their Instagram page too--do any of those featured individuals convey "office worker" messaging? Anyway, it's...

"I bet the people of Waltham wouldn't mind something like this between Moody and Elm. But then, like you say, the cost...." It's interesting to think of how Downtown Waltham's sociology would influence this. On the one hand, the Brandeis community is just .5 miles from what I consider the...

There's always the Corner Mall.

Indeed, that and 10 School St. [aka Walgreens superstore] are both superior Brutalist examples in my mind. Some would argue City Hall is too, of course--but to me, City Hall is permanently disqualified due to the epic failure of its plaza--and of course they were part of a "combo plate." So...

I highly doubt it, only because of my assumption that Fidelity has a very long lease there with its retail brokerage branch--perhaps that's why the sale was so attractive, in a period in which Downtown office towers are otherwise simply not trading? Even if Fidelity gets very little foot...

I do find it interesting that the Leather District was excluded here--yet it has been encompassed within the BPDA's census-tract derived definition of "Downtown" for many many years: www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/17be3f47-f413-4e07-a6cc-c9439e8efc3e/ Why deviate from such long-standing...

Look closer and you'll see that's merely the LLC name; the actual name the restaurant will be going by is The Chemist...