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How many of those steel deathtraps had pleather bench seats and no AC? I can hear the 4 kids in the back seat fighting...

What low-effort renderings. Not really trying to build up public support with this news release. 1. Why not include the already-approved Encore or Everett Broadway expansion and pedestrian bridge? 2. Why make a design that matches the soon-to-be defunct LNG power plant by design, color, and...

Glad that this finally got approval. Interesting reading about the commentary and remaining complaints about reactivating the site from an abandoned factory. https://charlestownbridge.com/2024/03/25/425-medford-pda-master-plan-gets-bpda-board-approval/

Since no one seems to care about data... lets look at student enrollment - it is trending down as a whole, but locally there are ups and downs... "On a five-year time horizon... at Nauset High [in] 2018 there were 937 students at the high school, and the numbers have declined by an average of...

To be clear - I bike them as well, but I don't consider myself a "casual rider." I want these routes "blue bikes-with-flipflops-and-no-helmet " safe. I do believe it is safe once you get to Assembly, and I fully agree that active changes are in progress, but saying "it will get better when they...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/dcr-will-make-one-of-its-pointless-charles-river-highways-half-as-pointless Still don't understand why they don't get rid of the Soldiers field road section along the waterfront and combine with this overbuilt road... Get asphalt off of DCR land!

Bike lanes are great to build for at this stage, but I don't really see Assembly as having much bike traffic until those huge commercial buildings are occupied creating more demand, and better+safer connectivity is established with the surrounding neighborhoods. The Everett bridge in particular...

Charlestown Neighborhood Council Development Committee Public Meeting, Wednesday, March 27, The Charlestown Neighborhood Council’s Development Committee will hold an in-person public meeting at the Knights of Columbus, 545 Medford Street, on Wednesday, March 27, at 7 PM. The sole agenda item is...

This is an economics problem - those with entry level jobs or young families simply can't afford to stay. We don't even have enough ratholes to be like New York to add supply. I'd be far more interested in a neighborhood breakdown of Family-Student-Shared housing by neighborhood. An enormous...

Interesting. I think I'll add "Domestic Oligarch" to my title, or maybe just "Outer Cape Despot." Thanks COVID for encouraging my tyrannical tendencies.

Some interesting ideas around Provincetown's bike path expansion project, looking to connect to Truro by shrinking the Rt 6 footprint. You'd need to construct a barrier I think to block out the highway noise and wind to make this a comfortable ride...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/milton-planning-board-eyes-two-zoning-plans/ Interesting development - they are at least nominally trying to recover by saying they'll come up with 2 plans, one for adjacent and one for the current rapid transit community. "The law and the accompanying...

Anybody know what happened at the public meeting last night? "public hearing for the phase one project will be on Thursday, March 7, 2024" https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/06/after-a-4-year-delay-belmont-gears-up-to-build-its-first-segment-of-the-mass-central-rail-trail

Whose responsibility is it that all the crosswalks on the Somerville community path extension suck? The grade is bad, they're misaligned, and they put minimal effort into view lines to passing traffic. Is this something that Somerville is permitted to fix? The generator placement pisses me...

I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk? I see all of the Casino parking, all of the Gateway Center (my map doesn't recognize properly the new Northern Strand extension path under the tracks), Sullivan...

Haha - I love the old industrial masonry (not the gas tanks), but the huge glass boxes in Northpoint hold no design value whatsoever to me- they literally reflect to avoid needing any character themselves. If only this development had tried a cohesive neighborhood aesthetic besides "STERILITY"

Inching closer to reality... "Massachusetts is set to receive about $350 million in federal money to help pay for the replacement of two aging bridges that carry traffic on and off Cape Cod... included in the fiscal year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act released by the...

Great puff piece profile of MTA repair ops with some solid photography. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/subway-repair-shop-new-york.html

Trying to understand this issue - hadn't seen a map. Looks like they tanked the assignment intentionally by rezoning far away from where it should have been, and literally avoided the near-transit neighborhoods voting for increased density. Although - East Milton Square looks like a pretty good...

OPTIMISM (I have to imagine that's what the leasing agents say every morning.) They just need to land the first 4 buildings (3 residential) and I'll call this a TOD win. The little "shared work" retail shack is a timber structure I'm still hoping is not VE'd of any awesomeness - Leers...