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There's definitely businesses who would happily take it over and take a lump sum to make up for the lack of profit each year. And when the money isn't enough to operate the system? They'll just ask for more consultants, more money, or threaten to shut down lines. Paying someone to own our...

It just feels dark and dingy in there. This is going to be a bright and open space with light colored accents. Not sure what could be done to fix that.

All the new MBTA stations have the Y roof design and my answer is no, I wonder if the idea is either A) it lets you make the middle a gutter and keeps water from dripping onto the walkway or B) so that it rains on homeless people trying to sleep there. Cause in my experience rain + typical...

I wanted to ask about these three parcels on cambridge street. They both had buildings demolished in the last five years with nothing to replace them. Anyone have info on what happened? Editing as I figure it out: Image 1: Apparently used as construction staging for millers river apartments...

But on the map it was greyed out! So I can only assume the cars and bridge will be built at 50% opacity, so you just see a bridge-like cloud as you walk down the neatly appointed pedestrian path.

Easiest way to get a project built was to ask engineers from 100 years ago to do it at the costs of the time lol... Read wikipedia and it was like "In 1909, it was decided that a four mile subway would be built. The plans were drawn up and it was dug over the course of two years by several local...

It's a great design and befitting of what we deserve out of a train station. My only complaint is that the rest of the station interior is gonna be left behind in terms of niceness!

Need a ped bike bridge from CX to the jail so we can skip all that. The Parklet by the jail is so nice and so is the CX park with the random office building in the middle. Connect them and the real city can leave the highway behind

This is a great visualization. Honestly the building with the driveway should be redeveloped, it's ugly and seems to have given up on interacting with its environment. A crappy glass paneled 5 over 1 with no parking would be better than what we have now. Not positive it is even in use besides as...

Not sure but Cambridge St does "end" as a one way slip lane onto the O'Brien highway. They changed the layout so you have to use the new First Street Extension to turn left from O'Brien onto Cambridge St.

Very fair comment. But my gripe is specifically the brand new connector where the t stop used to be.

Sent my usual grouchy email. Turns out it’s not the CRA at least according to this person

Re Except the pedestrian access to lechmere is miserable. And there’s zero businesses in the “square” besides a bank chain. And the dirt lot on the right of the image is slated for a future development. Not to mention the tall buildings in CX across the street. The whole thing is an urban fail...

If only we lived in a real city. MassDOT psychically tortures me every day with the suburban style new 4 lane road they added so executives can drive out of CX faster. Cause you're definitely meant to drive there.

Yeah that’s why I don’t pay. It’s such a pain. I am a transit guy but I’m not an idiot.

Carbon monoxide park is in full bloom. Looks pretty. Will look even better when the trees grow.

I have a kind of weird theory about fare evasion from observing friends. I think honestly especially on GL surface branches the feeling is that riding the green line is basically being ripped off. Crowded, slow, unreliable… whereas when I was in Warsaw I was happy to pay the fare, cause things...

Here’s a rare-ish angle of city hall. Need to take some photos like this so we can remember it after we finally knock it down 😉

Referring to Monsignor O'Brien highway

Is there a detailed timeline of when the highway paralleling the viaduct will finish being rebuilt? It feels like they are working on the bike lanes once a month, and the other days they pour a bit of concrete and then find another existing area to jackhammer up and leave so I can't bike through...