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I do like the catwalks above tho, it seems like it could activate the space overall and make it seem less dead than it does now, even if there aren’t people walking on it, just having the sight of walkways above one’s head introduces the idea of more human activity

From a couple days ago

Wow, this is potentially huge. If they could add a CR station, even better—imagine the reduction in travel times if you had regional rail frequencies from North Station to Everett, with connections to a SL to Chelsea almost entirely on a busway.

Biked on Tremont today in the South End. The protected lanes are great. However, at one corner a car was parked in one of them. I stopped and was getting ready to glower at the driver but it was an older person, who rolled down her window and when I told her she was in a bike lane she pointed...

If they’re from a country we don’t like, we call them oligarchs. If they’re American or from an allied country, we just call them billionaires.

Wow. I've seen this from Garden Street in transit but never realized this was such a gem. Im gonna have to go visit that courtyard, what a great piece of modernism.

I just saw this now for the first time and thought the same thing. Was like, wait this is new?? It looks restored. And looks great.

Because no matter how shitty and horrible the road or how few reasons there are to be on it, there are just hoards of would-be cyclists and pedestrians, dying for the right infrastructure to walk and bike on. We live in an era where everything has to be about everything. Why cant we have a...

I wouldn’t say that; she staked her mayoral identity on bringing a non-Tammany Hall northeast graft blue dog attitude to this tired and anachronistic old city’s government. And I think overall she’s doing a pretty good job, especially as an outsider. If she can get Squares and Streets through...

What's "EJ"? And while I am very glad this finally, at long last, is getting funded, it's pretty silly to say this project is going to meaningfully reknit the two sides of the barrier. Having literally one road bridge this divide, for buses and pedestrians only, aint exactly a re-connection.

We live in an era where only the image of something matters. As long as the keywords are there, the substance matters not.

I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could...

It’s also a nice size — if it had the footprint of a super block it would be imposing, but the smaller width makes the street experience and impression a lot lighter. The Y-shaped supports at the base also channel the eye and buildings energy-feeling skyward, which I think contributes to the...

Pretty good click bait actually since it clearly got all of us! I’d say their editor might in line for a promotion.

It’ll be the same fate as everywhere else: the only people who will own property will be international and domestic oligarchs and corporate execs, rented to wealthy tourists or used as investment pieces, with the remaining year round population performing cleaning, restaurant service, and Amazon...

Well that’s more encouraging than I thought, so hopefully this will be truly separate lanes for most of Alford. Re private property takings, basically all the private land on Alford is now owned by casino or casino affiliates, and I vaguely recall reading at some point that there had been...

Wow, did Related Beal ask chatGPT to comb a list of every unimaginative development in Boston and Cambridge and recapitulate it for this? It preserves all of the super blocks, looks incredibly bland, and basically gives you four brick turds and a square of grass. Second one by Beacon looks far...

I was talking about some specifics and some general issues that I see with this. The road is already heavily used and once all the rest of the lots get redeveloped into hotels etc, there’s going to be a lot more people entering and exiting, and potentially also pulling over or blocking whatever...

They talk about moving the bike lanes onto private property for a stretch of 99 to make room for a bus lane. I'm skeptical about the real caliber of busway that this whole segment will be able to provide. 99 is not that wide, and there is a ton of future development here, and the plan has the...

Anyone know any details or can point me to plans for Seaver St extension of the Columbus Ave busway? I thought it was in the works but cant find anything concrete or in detail on the MBTA site or elsewhere. Is this just a vague future plan or is it in development?