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I’m a Davis Square resident and I’m mostly in favor of this development. Sligo will never be the same, but that’s how dive bars work. Some other hole in some other wall will be the next dive. It won’t be right on this block of Elm. I will miss Sligo. McKinnons is, IMO, not a special or...

Maybe a large conference room? If it were a company I’d say the “boardroom”, not sure sure what to call the equivalent in a govt building.

It's only 1 mile from Sullivan to the proposed site. Many would happily walk 20 minutes. Many will be going to a bar in Sullivan or Everett to pre-/post-game anyway, which breaks up the walk from transit. I'm not even sure you need bus lanes to cover the 1 mile distance. A platoon of shuttle...

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Bravo. This 👆 is a very good post. Obviously there are real numbers to crunch for any specific project on a specific site, but the principles you outline are an excellent guideline and should give everyone interested in height and density something to contemplate.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate for a second to ask - why is a transit accessible U-Haul and self-storage location a bad thing? I get that it is a low density use. I get that it’s neither homes nor many jobs per sq foot. However it does SUPPORT housing and in particular it supports dense...

I like the setbacks, would love to see more of that around Boston. I even think the parklet is ok given the car traffic disaster that is that whole intersection area. If they put enough trees and hedges to wall off Park Drive it might become a pleasant place to linger. That intersection is so...

How about Huey, Dewey, and Louie?

You can build one heck of a village for $1 billion!

In the long run, I really think Somerville (and Cambridge) is going to regret building all this parking in Boynton Yards. Highway access is weak. This is going to funnel a lot of cars down Washington, McGrath, and up Prospect. Prospect is already over capacity most of the time and McGrath is...

Count me in the camp of people unhappy with how Somerville is treated. Somerville gets better access to downtown Boston via GLX, but in exchange loses almost all intra-Somerville bus service? How can Ball Square - itself not a very large commercial district, but located directly on the busy...

That facade sampler! Ugg

To that I would say - just because it misses the dead center of the CBD doesn’t make it a circumferential. To me it seems more like a grid than circumferential. While Kendall and Lechmere are separated by the river from downtown, they are pretty much contiguous with it. Give them decent transit...

I can’t imagine many people staying on an SL6 bus when they could transfer to OL at Sullivan. Paralleling the OL to Haymarket has value, but it is far better served with improved OL headways. One of the biggest weaknesses of the MBTA network is that it is exclusively a hub and spoke network...

My assumption here is that Winthrop and Hull will be substantially altered, possibly to the point of being unrecognizable, in the construction of a barrier. The current owners in those towns will lose their community, potentially their homes, for a barrier that actually protects OTHER PEOPLE’s...

They’ll be ardent NIMBYs up until it is actually too late. Guaranteed. Then they’ll flip or be overridden by a court via eminent domain. Of course the tragedy will be that it was actually too late and those communities end up completely destroyed instead of just altered.

Who you choose to ignore is a matter of personal preference, but I’ll just say this forum got a lot more enjoyable for me with a just a few particular posters on my ignore list. I highly recommend giving it a try.

That is an interesting policy. During low ridership periods, you give away some free rides to people visiting or who don’t ride transit often enough to have their own pass. This encourages people to try transit and get to know the system. It makes transit cost competitive over splitting the cost...

IIRC, 5-ish years ago I had to pay £8 for an Oyster Card. It was refundable if you returned the card, which I did at the end of my visit. The entire point of these fees is to keep cards out of garbage cans. It really isn’t any more complicated. For long time riders, they float the card fee like...

Maybe I’m missing something, but this seems simple. The card cost $3 to buy but isn’t empty until it’s negative. With a $2.40 fare, that means the cost to throw away the card is as low as $0.60. To the average person who doesn’t think about this stuff at all, there is a $3 incentive to not throw...