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Seeing those highway numbers increase year over year kinda does prove the point of them being a self fulfilling curse, and shows you why MassDOT is skittish about lane reductions -- of course we need to support 150k cars on the pike, nevermind that it was 5k fewer last year, and 5k fewer the...

I read once that post-Covid the traffic levels of SFR/Storrow could be absorbed by Pike since there's fewer cars. To summarize Pike (2019) = Storrow (2024) + Pike (2024). I could be totally wrong though. The question of connections SFR/Storrow provide over the Pike is another question, but the...

I tend to agree with F Line that a giveaway to Harvard isn't really the exact top of the list for why the state's pushing this. Getting from BU/Allston to anywhere in Cambridge besides MIT is a drag despite them being geographically so close. People take the 57 to the 66 bus, and the 66 itself...

I really like the tower from most angles, but from this one I almost wish it was closer to the street corner. Visually it looks kind of thin compared to how wide the big South Station entrance is. Something else I've always wondered, is the masonry for SS intentionally that color? It looks...

Not a highway project Expands the highway. Pushes the walking path out into the river. Protects the shoreline Puts the walking path in the river, also a temporary road on the river, maybe. Safer streets Giant, brand new streets with protected bike lanes Commuter rail expansion Not even...

Took a B train that terminated at Packard's Corner and saw a track worker doing what appeared to be manually switching the track once the train passed by so it could cross to the right hand track. I know nothing about railroad ops, can someone educate me why this is the case? I thought switches...

Kind of an obvious point, but anecdotally my buddy has decided to start permanently commuting 30+ minutes by car to a different office rather than take the green line to the downtown office amidst the shutdowns. I also rely on the green line to get between Cambridge and Allston a couple times a...

Isn't the commuter rail stop almost certainly going to be West Station? Does kind of beg the question of if we will get an East Station someday. Maybe the proposed underground NSRL station.

This is my philosophy as well... but I want something more inspired. Beacon Yard and Allston Yard are in the category of naming every T stop "X Street" or "X Square" to me. Derivative, boring. "Lechmere", "Wonderland", "Back of the Hill". Those names are pure ecstasy. They tell you almost...

I feel a little sad that the neighborhood is most certainly going to be called something like "Allston Yard" as if it were a baseball field or something.

I wonder if someone who has GM Eng's email or contact can ask politely for him to advocate on behalf of the authority on this project? The MBTA needs to advocate for itself and get some ROW or even just some input into the plan/ Much harder for the governor and MassDOT to brush off these...

I worked at 300 Babcock St (adjacent to the railyard) for four years and lived next to the viaduct for 2... planners think someone like me doesn't exist. And anyone who's had to walk or bike up that five laner in lower Allston knows its dangerous and filthy thanks to being so wide.

Had to make an account to post an update on the courthouse project. Really stoked about this one. I do wonder if Dover has design standards that require the brick and vinyl combination, or if it's just that Chinburg knows that it's more likely to get approved that way. Either way, the area is...