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Me too - I've seen vinyl bags at a few other stops - is this one made of .... cardboard? plastic?

I like that residential proposals are back! I still wish that the Mystic Ave corridor was full of 10-12 story residential towers and such. Block the highway noise!

I was going to say - I think they can say that with the SL3 and the Broadway busway that they've been the most ready for development here out of all the places in the system.

This is intriguing - though - I wonder if the Old Colony Republicans/conserva-crats will be "we just raised taxes on millionaires"?

My councillors, reps, and senators were very pro MBTA, but, that's because my (previous) city would falter so badly if even more people started driving. My new city is much less enthused, though, and the BNRD looks like it's going to make a lot of current riders' lives harder - so - here's the...

What a way to suck the life out of a first-floor! I'm curious as to why it had to be there instead of anywhere else - whatever it is.

I'm pessimistic about our Leg and Guv. The majority are, charitably, ambitious career politicians. They, as a whole, are, very sadly, not people who want to yield power for societal results and certainly will rise to the occasion to ... do the bare minimum. I think they'll find just enough money...

what is with that, albeit extremely nicely muraled, utility cabinet?!

Just want to note that the $700 fiscal cliff has always been a state funding problem - Feds do not give the T any significant amount for operations. The real issue will be if the House scraps everything transit in capital dollars and states have to find funds for all new capital expenditures...

I thought the idea was to not "compete" with the Zakim.

Gosh this all looks like "YIMBY urbanism" meets "edge city" - like a Tysons Corner, Irvine, Walnut Creek, Seaport, Bellevue, or Century City but smaller, Harvard, and less ambitious. It seems like it's what BPDA wants to be built here.

Local routes seem to get the shaft here. Seems worth registering a complaint with the T if they have a meeting in my honest perspective.

It's the rubber gasket type seal on many US versions of buses and trams that make our fleets look notably clunkier. Most European systems, like you said, purchase buses and trams that have a gasket only on the inside of the glazing instead of it wrapping around the glazing completely forming a seal.

Wow - I do not like the idea that local routes' standard of service in the middle of the day is 60 minutes. If they think that frequent routes "deserve" 15 minutes all day, then, it should follow that the local routes, if they have less demand, would also be similarly situated with people...

They kinda did this with the 5 day passes over 30 days, i.e. "5-day flex pass". Seems like they're testing the waters for some other modified pass situation. I still think the LinkPass-1A is a pretty good value for non-commuters, i.e. carfree folks like me, but, a LinkPass priced at about 30...

Great photos. Weekends here in the park spaces are great - my favorite is to get something at Beatrice and watch the ducks and turtles in the ponds during the summer. It's so easy to pass a couple hours there!

peak-y commutes are coming back - my morning buses are getting slammed out of Somerville into Cambridge/Red Line.

Commercial conversion, when?

I don't know why we don't tax the rich -- Messrs Kraft and Henry in particular -- for the impacts to the public transit network for their franchises. Like, Mr Henry should probably pay for about 50% of the cost of running the GL.

I'm thinking this is more of the "play stupid games....." kind of State gamesmanship.