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Wouldn’t it be a boon if they locked in financing at a low interest rate…?

If we get these done on a lot of former rows with wide streets, and staff experiences some kind of learning curve with continuing to roll them out, bus riders and activists will clamor for them I hope. Need to change the image of bus lanes from being double parking lanes to being cool and...

Would like if they audited the project management structure that causes cost blowouts... don't care so much about auditing ops. If anything we need more money for actual employees not consultants.

Anecdotal, but I just went over at full speed right now.

I would say HVAC wise the number of zones is not so much a barrier. It would not be accurate to say a single floor of an office building is a single zone, you have a building main shaft and it gives you for example 5,000 cfm per floor of outdoor air (random number). What defines a zone is that...

I can speak to this a little. I lived in Hoboken for two months. My options to get to NYC were A) PATH. 15 min walk or local bus, extremely hot and sweaty. A bit slow. Frequencies are bad off peak B) Path bus. I preferred this one since I am not afraid of busses and it would pick me up from...

downeaster equipment move today

Dunno, that looks like an attractive urban street to me. That MBTA has figured out separated BRT is a miracle and something we can brag about to other cities. As a cyclist I'm OK with not having a bike lane here -- the next step would be to make cars a guest on the corridor and have...

That study is a little sad. I liked the proposals people had here of digging underground for grand junction and then using a modular station design.

Can’t believe this developer wants to disturb this rural sparsely populated village.

To give people an idea... they own the whole block minus that building. It's 76 Ashford, track and tennis center, BU Vending/Mail services, and then the band room/athletics offices/crew room. Per the master plan they want that whole block (you're looking at site T). They also want the star...

Park seems lovely but… what the heck is that road on the left? Road city over there

This smells of land banking… this building overlooks BU’s aging track and tennis center and it’s likely they couldn’t stand the idea of something going up next to it

Rush hour today on the Monsignor’s folly. Nobody cares to use this road. It’s as wide as sin. Used to be a trolley reservation if you can believe it or not. It’s time for it to go.

I suppose people have trouble letting it go because it's so obviously just a few obstinate/cruel people in the way. So while it may be true that it's bad to fight for it now, it's just so exceedingly stupid and obvious to someone with a normal perspective on things that it just seems genuinely...

I could see a future where the sec has a "come to jesus" moment and suddenly asks for a lane reduction. The right person get's Healey's ear, the right person leaves mass dot... never say never I guess.

For what it’s worth I also contacted the professor who I assume is in charge of it and she did not get back to me. Looking at this makes me wonder if we could really pull off NSRL. If we fixed the cost issue and brought project management in house. Cause look at this platform — walk down...

Is there a limit to escalator speed? I know it sounds like I’m about to propose something crazy so I’ll leave it at that.

Sure, it's just funny to me. One is a bridge that he can use to take vacations that they're gonna get either way. The other one is a long-awaited megaproject that may never happen.

Some nice extra-wide benches would go a long way here. I was looking for somewhere to sit while I was there and found nothing. It also seems like the concrete finishes shown in the render are substantially worse than what's there, but hey, its concrete.