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Ugh. What a full on Las Vegas Strip chintz of a monstrosity the Hotel Commonwealth is. At least when you're walking in front of it on that side of the square you get the benefit of not seeing it in its entirety.

Crazy coincidence. I walked up that sidewalk on Friday and noticed those (I initially noticed the decorative (?) stonework) for the first time, despite having passed through there thousands of time in my lifetime. I was going to tweet about the same question, but forgot.

At the same time it's an active construction site? I'd rather the viaduct.

I wouldn't be so quick to bet his left gonad. Per Historic Aerials, it appears that that circular parcel wasn't there until after 2016. Open Railway Map shows the branch, but it only shows the ROW until the river, but it is not unusual for old ROWs on that map to be incomplete.

Probably security people standing there to turn people away.

Are you talking about One Bowdoin Square? Nonsense. It's always been one of my favorite, and -along with another Gund building, the Boston Ballet- is probably one of the most significant pieces of postmodern architecture in Boston. It certainly gives some of Johnson's ridiculously tacky and...

Yeah, I noticed that when riding it recently as well. Government Center Station also has them.

Prior to the Baseball Tavern (pre-2005 or so?), it was Quest/1270, which also made good use of the very same roof deck, but with more drag queens. Meathead bars are a dime a dozen here. We need are more places like Machine. I wonder if they were also offered a new space in the new development.

There is a mechanism for reporting bad or unsafe driving: Registry of Motor Vehicles Complaint of Improper Operation. Citizens can refer incidents to the RMV and they'll follow up and may even schedule an administrative hearing. I don't know anyone who has done this, but it seems like a good idea...

Is this the site of the current police station, or the house on the corner of Brown Street?

Except for the fact that it's well within the South End Landmark District. That will be a pretty big hoop for any developer to try to jump through if they come up with any proposals to make major changes to the main building.

Agreed, I went on it the other day and was very impressed. I second your kudos.

A quick Google tells me that that the Amtrak 24 fire happened in May of 2015 in Milwaukee. I know for a fact that it was repaired and returned to service after that, because it's the same locomotive that led the train I took from Chicago to Portland, OR in March of 2017. Incidentally, last...

Re: Regional Rail (including North-South Rail Link) Slightly OT, but just to clarify (and focus on an irrational pet peeve of mine): Braintree, Weymouth, Amesbury, Winthrop, Amherst, North Attleborough, and Palmer, among several others, rechartered as Cities within the last two decades (at...

I was a park ranger at Walden many years ago and at the time, there was talk of moving Route 126 to east of the current parking lot and tying into Route 2 around the eastern edge of the former dump. Pavement on the current Route 126 would have been removed, and the pedestrian crossing from...

With the exception of Los Angeles where Metro's light rail and subway lines are shown on the map interspersed with Metrolink commuter rail lines, without differentiating which lines are part of Metro and which lines are Metrolink.

Add Ireland to that. I rode Iarnrod Eireann's services a bit around Ireland last October (Intercity between Dublin and Cork, and Commuter Rail and DART in Dublin) and found that most-if not all-stations had gates or validators, and that you tap your card at the validator or gates (which are...

I spent many an evening up there as a somewhat socially awkward spaceshot of a twenty something with my motley little gang of skater punks, backbench club kids, and at least one drag queen. We must've ruined several thousand dollars of MTV's film whenever the Real World would film its gang of...

Don't you mean Quest? May the ghosts of long gone club kids and drag queens haunt whatever ends up in its place for eternity.

Or, they could install toll gantries above the bus lanes and assess a $35 or so "toll" to anyone using the bus lane.