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I suppose the pertinent question would be, two side running bus lanes on the bridge that merge into that narrow intersection over there probably don't do much for the slowness which is caused by the traffic in the area, and the lack of lanes, etc.. You'd want it to connect to something in my...

Hard to express how gigantic these guys are in real life. Huge improvement

Doubly depressing that we simultaneously see cost as impossible to tackle and also use it as a justification for not doing things. Someone should sit the wise Secretary in front of the Transit Costs report and ask her to summarize what it says. Truly infrastructure projects are just for...

Rather than encouraging/discouraging uses by limiting them directly let’s just use design guidelines instead. Residential? Any density, glass and steel if you want. Labs and offices? Well we don’t like those, so has to be masonry and you need cornices. Self storage, auto repair shops? Full blown...

More bikes than cars out today on Cambridge St in Cambridge. I was just in a queue of 10 bikes and we were all weaving cars parked in the bike lane. And to think they want to not have a lane on this road. (Note; not the one in Allston, or the one in Boston, or the one in Charlestown)

Speaking of who might have her ear, I think Jim Aloisi the former esteemed secretary is a transit head. Unfortunately he doesn’t read this forum.

I guess it's interesting that the Secretary feels commuter rail tracks are a black hole of sorts but not the highway and the stroads. But at least it seems like she gets it a little more than the engineers do. Excited to see what's next

Good points all around!

Or maybe another way to put it would be, buses in mixed traffic leave pretty much nobody satisfied. Here we are zig zagging and arguing over adding bus lanes in places. (Also known as Uber eats parking lots). If we could just sprinkle on grade separated transit in some kind of direct routing...

What I mean is that you are basically forced to use those stops in order to get to service to points east or to the green line. So yes there’s tons of ridership. You’re not alighting with the goal of hanging out in that neighborhood. In a perfect world with a better street layout the bus would...

it’s always struck me that the portion of Brighton Ave that the 66 uses isn’t exactly the cradle of civilization. You can go to Blanchards or TITS, not much really. If you’re trying to make a trip to BU or points East from there it’s faster to walk than wait 20 minutes for a 57 bus connection...

It’s like they are bending the existing service to fit what’s convenient to them rather than designing the plan around what makes sense.

I would encourage people to continue to press the project team and whatever representatives seem to have responsive offices about this. If only to make the engineers answer questions they’re not comfortable answering. Worth noting that I was polite but firm in my email, I assume they trash...

So last time we were talking about this I was motivated enough to relay my concerns to the project team and got this in response, more or less the same weasel words they used in the video. But I appreciate that they responded, as at least someone involved in the project had to read the email and...

What's the point of having a socialist fiefdom if you can't even stop bourgeois drivers? (/s)

"We have discovered that Storrow Drive is unsafe for travel and have closed it indefinitely to traffic except for emergency vehicles. We have no timeline to reopen the road."

Generally yes this is true and I'm being purposefully glib. But I'm starting to favor a Miegs Field approach given how silly everything has gotten. I wonder what Mayor Wu's Miegs Field could be? Bowker overpass? For Mr. Eng he should direct his track workers to just lay some more track out on...

And imagine asking for even one of these intercity routes to be restored... they'd charge us 2 billion? 5 billion? The crying and gnashing of teeth from the consultants as they try to get their bite of the pie. The ten thousand page environmental studies that would be conducted. We can't do it...

it’s a by right development

To put it another way, I got off the bus yesterday in Charlestown and looked at the smoke stacks for a good fifteen seconds. Was totally blown away by them. Where’s the wonder in this design?