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I'm so sad that all the interesting retailers have left. Not sure that there's going to be much "there" there unless they go like Bow Market.

This seems a bit ... pedantic? Somerville's electeds have given the raison-d'etre for this project to be making it a "Boulevard" (like those fancy streets in Paris). McGrath Highway will be renamed McGrath Boulevard if they have their chance. So, the critique is moot? (To be honest, most...

I suppose the leg could up the requirements to "adjacent" communities :)

"Natural" traffic calming is what one of the public works people called those potholes during a Resistat meeting a couple years ago.

That post-war "dream big" also came with "tell the townies to put up or else". Which is why that post-war stuff didn't end up working out in the long term.

Responding not to the diagram - that seems to be an awfully standard diagram now - rather - responding to the idea that @Longfellow said about essentially flipping the script -- building up to the highway or boulevard edge and then only accommodating pedestrians at points to get across the new...

That's like a disturbed vision of a hausmannian boulevard!

Shifting the roadway away plus a pair of tree planting rows plus an access lane with cars parked as buffers will definitely help to reduce road noise to the people who live next to the boulevard. I think the issue is largely the awkward depths of the properties that sit next to the highway...

Maybe you're an east-sider? I'm just so tired of all the late night noise from the people racing up to the overpass. Every foot to the east helps create better conditions for trees and also reduces how much noise makes it to my home. :|

As someone who lives a block off McGrath, we definitely need more of those access lanes. I want them at the section between Medford and Washington st. It would keep the noise of faster moving traffic further away from homes and smaller businesses. If anything I want the boulevard roadway moved...

The path goes west and the highway goes north. And with a boulevard it's not unusual to have bidirectional bike facilities on either side since people are acting local destinations.

Assembly has some redevelopment that could provide for a small layover terminal close to Route 28/McGrath-Fellsway. (Edit: Inadvertently, maybe Freudianly called it "Hellsway")

If you don't like bacon, just tell us. /s Yeah, especially for me, the shortest of the three buildings. The lab office building is fine because it is largely one monochromatic building. But, the shortest and tallest are visually cluttered in an unpleasant way. Worse when walking on Prospect St...

In addition to the parallel to GLX for local travel, for regional travel, McGrath/Route 28 is also awfully parallel to the OL, too. So, it seems like there's not a huge potential "market" for travel that isn't already partially replicated by rail-based rapid transit today.

Interesting - looks like they're approaching to mid-late 2019 travel time levels - at the quartiles and mean/median. that's a good sign. i'm hopeful that we can get closer to 2017 levels sooner!

I think this may be an unstated (implied) determination that one of the Rutherford alternatives is the preferred SL6 alternative. That being said, I think that with all the space left over from the Washington Street intersection with Medford/McGrath, that there's not a short section of centered...

At the same time, it's adding connections that don't exist today and changes the roadway geometry to induce yielding? Seems like a fair trade off for some delay for a place that is tough to cross today because of the highway speeds and vehicle travel?

Am I reading this wrong? It looks like the design has No slip lanes Added crosswalks across all the sides of tbe intersection Added a walking (and biking?) connection down to Charles gate

Sure and for what it's worth any time I've heard politicians say that this would be a good corridor, I keep on wanting to give them a Fitchburg line timetable. Highway brt works fairly ok in other regions where there's a decent network of park n rides, and the only significant park n rides are...

Unless we have another 2008 (knock on wood that we don't), housing just isn't going to magically get cheaper. The biggest reform we have going is just a zoning reform - zoning reform isn't housing production. We can run more trains for more communities resulting in more trains for more people -...