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JavaKing: I'm guessing that your pix from Suffolk relates to the following: . for Bob -- you were doing a good job of guessing -- from the information posted on the two pages designed for commuters as quoted above crane’s 370’ long boom I do think that the crane as shown in the photo...

DZH -- not all heights are created equal what is the actual top of a structure depends on whether you include stuff that sticks up such as booms for window washing, microwave dishes, sometimes a weather station, cameras, etc. -- the only "thing" whose top we can be sure of is an antenna as it...

Bob -- you might be right on all counts Although I think you will need a crane with a boom that can reach across the bus terminal to get access to materials stashed on Atlantic Ave for the tower foundation work so I'm thinking one tower crane in the vicinity of track 13 and later the real...

Charlie -- the car in some incarnation will always be the king -- just like as soon as there were horses no one ever walked long distances again as soon as there were airplanes flying across the Atlantic -- no one ever took a passenger liner to Europe So the car of the future might be an...

All of these proposed projects and their ridership "projections" are best described by the term "Virtue Signaling" -- there is no there there there or even there Once you get past Worcester it just makes very little sense to invest any significant money in infrastructure -- there just are not...

Fitchburg is 10 mi further than Nashua and seems to do fine as a stop on the Commuter Rail Manchester NH to Boston is almost exactly the same distance as Fitchburg to Boston

F-Line you might be right -- on the other hand reading the above referenced document: . The above doesn't sound like temporary -- its sounds as though there is a process involving gradual improvement: you build one permanent narrow bridge on "virgin" territory [giving you temporarily 6...

Fatnoah - assuming that there is no immediate push-back at the Congressional level - -there is a window of about 2 years for "Crazy Transit Pitches" to be fulfilled Come 2023 or so -- the US DOT spending binge is probably over -- one way or another Other point -- one of the Trump Legacies --...

Henry -- if this is verging into "Crazy Transit Pitch" territory the T should just dig a deep tunnel to go under the Turnpike all past PACKARDS CORNER [the fork between Comm Ave and Brighton Ave] with: Station just before BU Bridge [about where the current BU Central] Station just before the...

Charlie -- 1985 was another Era in 1985 KSq was still known as AI Alley -- there wasn't a single bio/pharma in Cambridge excepting university labs and the Whitehead Institute [founded in 1982] AI Alley': A Haven For Hackers CAMBRIDGE, MA - MARCH: A Kendall Square billboard heralds the...

More on Alewife's "times" both good and bad On the good -- the best time would actually be at the New Charles River Damn [essentially North Station] where there is a fish ladder -- - constructed just for the benefit of the Alewife's anadromous habits On the bad side -- I would suggest: either...

An alewife would have a good time at Aquarium - and a bad time at Arlington, site of the Boylston Street Fish Weir. You have to argue it might be Copley instead of Arlington although it really wasn't located at either The fish weir was re-discovered when the foundations were being dug for...

Dominus -- Everything technical from F-Line is as usual solid and right on target Two more factors: Topography -- Florida in case you didn't notice is a flat slab of limestone with a slight tilt from north to south -- the highest point is in the panhandle at 345. Outside of that hill the rest...

Given the massive fiasco with the handling of the Pandemic [especially the moronic one-size-fit-all lockdowns] and most recently the ongoing mega-screwup of the vaccination deployment -- I doubt that about now -- that Baker gives a "whit or a szitz" ) about transportation planning However --...

Jas -- that's a one dimensional view of spacing It depends a great deal on what has been or can be built in the "catchment" of the stop -- if you have single family or couple of family homes on the prime street and nearby 2ndary streets then 1/2 mile might be almost too close together On the...

WoW -- that was a fast project from pilings and slurry walls to curtain wall glass

a bit of a stretch for those because of the tendency of most of their streets to be on a rectilinear grid as opposed to Boston's less consistent curving [and leaving behind a curved facade even if the street was later straightened as in Franklin St near the Millennium Tower] and intersecting at...

Time to relabel this one Amazon One so that it will be clear which one of the Amazon projects in the Seaport on the former McCourt Parcels is being discussed

Javon -- I think the view from the Pru Skywalk was the best in the US [at least the ones that I had the opportunity to reconnoiter] From the Pru on a good day [well a really good day] you could see: The whole of the Freedom Trail Logan comings and goings Boston Harbor The tip of the Cape and...

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