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Ayuh, I think it is indeed.

Here are some more pics taken in December, as they were removing the tunnel.

Yes, and the upper level tunnel tapered down and formed the base to the and its ceiling followed the slope of the stairway as it got closer to Congress St. The tunnels from the JFK building were preserved and they appear to be building vaults in place of the tunnel where the smaller side tunnels...

Why wouldn't they?

Of course, and that would be the more likely and feasible solution, but that would be a reasonable highway pitch :)

My crazy highway pitch: Replace I-93 through the Middlesex Fells with a tunnel. The north portals of this deep bore tunnel wold be just south of Montvale Avenue in Woburn and the south portals would be at about Roosevelt Circle in Medford. The current alignment would then be restored to...

Do we really want supertalls? Apparently they aren't all they're cracked up to be. I once lived in a new construction "luxury" loft building in the South End, built in 2006, that had so many flaws (no drains in the floor plate, so a toilet overflowing upstairs would ruin the ceiling below when...

Yeah, imagine signing a lease on one of the units overlooking the 99 and finding out the first time you open the window that you have to contend with grill exhaust.

Or how long before the "walk bikes" signs go up, as they have recently on the North Bank Bridge (which was designed to its width to accommodate bicycling).

And no T roundel on the side either. IIRC, the Orange Line ones came with it. I recall reading something years ago -possibly around the time Type 8 or maybe even as far back as Bombardier cars- about them not putting the roundel on until a car was accepted.

I had forgotten all about that. My cousins lived in the Cape style house opposite Daniel Drive, the second house up from the auto body shop (interesting side note: they ran a variety store out of the front part in the 1970s called Graniteville Package and Variety, which later became an antique...

Did the pre 1899 station serve the B&A? And if not, was there ever any attempt to connect it? I thought Trinity Place and Huntington Ave stations stuck around until the Pike Extension was built, or was there access to B&A services from the 1929 station (either at the time it was built, or later...

I remember while tooling around the State Transportation Library in the late 1990s and coming across a plan from around the early 1980s that proposed an indoor shopping mall and residential development over the Wellington parking lots, and I think over the yard as well. I don't remember if it...

Many do. Burligton famously (at the time) became the first town in the nation to ban the sale and use of all chlorides on public and private ways in 1972 in order to protect its water supply. The bylaw was later amended to allow for the sale and use of tree and water supply-safer calcium...

Yes, it is technically Roxbury or JP. lol.

The first urban Home Depot I saw was this one just south of Diversey Parkway in Chicago.

Why not? That or a Home Depot. Those are exactly the types of businesses needed in the Back Bay/South End. There's a huge residential catchment area for them at that location and they contribute much more to improving quality of urban life than an overpriced department store.

That and the Baseball Tavern is apparently being relocated into the new building. Why can't they do the same with Ramrod and Machine?

Because the Silver Line was over capacity failure of planning the moment it opened.

FWIW, the whole site is within the South End Landmark District, so whatever proposal comes forward will undergo review by the South End Landmark District Commission.