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Side topic: The words “immediate” and “RLT” don’t seem to belong in the same sentence. When do you realistically think we’ll see 3 minute headways on Red?

Every day I see 75% or more of riders board the GLX without validating at the fare machine. I'm one of the suckers who actually pays. If you don't enforce something at all, evasion becomes rampant and the losses become significant. You are right that toll evasion may not be significant enough...

I can imagine a system to catch people, though given this state’s appetite for traffic enforcement (absolutely none), it would never happen. Post a cruiser downstream from a camera. If an obstructed plate is detected, text a photo of the car to the cop to pull them over and ticket them. There...

If that’s the way it is, then so be it. I guess I would have preferred they just maximize the footprint. I dislike these half-assed plazas. I think they are worse than no plaza at all. My company has our laboratory in IDB, so I travel through this intersection once in a while. A fair number of...

With so little retail and the way it is oriented, these plazas are going to be empty or utilized exclusively by people working in the building. I hope there is some pushback to demand something better than “underutilized outdoor corporate lunchroom”. This is pretty disappointing.

A partial build NSRL is called electrification and transformation from Commuter Rail to Regional Rail. The digging needs to happen all at once, but there is so so much work to do before digging.

Just as general observation, there is a ton of white space in Cambridge, the Charles, and Back Bay. Perhaps you can rethink the size and orientation of the legend and redistribute some of that white space. If it helps at all, GLX Medford branch can really be compressed - this makes it look like...

I suspect though I could be mistaken, that in our painfully supply constrained market, multi family is always more profitable to build than single family. Three units of 1000 square feet each costs marginally more to build than one SFH of 3000 square feet, but sells for far more. I suspect you...

100% Underutilized land area outside the urban center is not now and never has been a significant contributor to the housing crisis. This argument against golf courses just sets up a NIMBY strawman that the vicious developers are coming for every scrap of green space including Boston Common...

Wow, good thing this thread got unlocked. Stimulating discussion… :rolleyes:

On GLX presently. Train is running … fast. I clocked us at 40mph with a phone app. The GLX has never run this fast since opening. Something has changed.

Somerville PD makes absolutely no attempt to pull over automobiles for running stop signs at full speed or driving >50mph in a school zone, but you guys are talking about radar for e-bikes on the community path? No traffic laws are enforced in Somerville and haven’t been in the 13 years that...

Have you ever considered that the alteration of the urban landscape would be... (now don't grip your pearls too tight!) ... for the better?

Would anyone care to comment on the implications of passing Question 1 on NSRL timeline? Like, what fraction of the $1.2-2 Billion per year might reasonably be directed to electrification and NSRL and what does that translate to in real world outcomes?

Do you have a drawing or link to something that shows the final configuration of that intersection?

Curb extension/bump-out being built opposite Ball Square Station. The intersection of Broadway and Boston Ave is being reworked for pedestrian comfort.

How about not storing them there? If they are discarded rails, then discard them. The job isn’t done until it is done. When you are finished with dinner, you wash the pots and pans.

I think you are sort of splitting hairs with people per square foot. My office utilization is way down, with the majority of chairs empty the majority of days. I suspect that lab utilization is not. And going forward, I don’t see people tolerating jam-packed office layouts for much longer. If...

I missed my Downeaster this afternoon because of the OL slow zones. I'm pissed. That is all.

Transportation corridor for who? Being a narrow causeway with water on either side, it has no catchment for public transportation. The only thing it could possibly be is a bypass highway around Boston. I suspect the economic cost/benefit is not going to come out favorably for that and the...