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It is tough to argue with that, except perhaps that the jog down to Davis adds a lot of time to the trip from Winter Hill or GL/Ball to Arlington Center, which is the only significant destination west of Teele. The connection to Davis might be better served by local routes with strategic queue...

Yes, but can we get it to hike your health insurance premium earthier way? /snark

Broadway BRT proposed stops (distance from previous stop): Sullivan Square Station (0.0 mi) East Somerville @ Cross St (0.6 mi) Winter Hill @ School/Temple (0.5 mi) Magoun Square (0.6 mi) Ball Square (0.4 mi) Powderhouse @ College Ave (0.4 mi) Teele Square (0.6 mi) Clarendon Hill (0.4 mi)...

I have to say, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. If you can relocate your business elsewhere, why haven’t you? That is a rhetorical question, please don’t answer it. Your specific case is not the point, nor is it the topic of the thread. Suburban commuters aren’t doing the city some kind...

How about eliminating parking? I’m not saying it’s easy, but businesses might not bark too much if they are getting BRT. For example, I suspect being on the MBTA map is more valuable to Teele Square businesses than the parking spaces.

How about combining the split idea with a lottery? Choose 1/3 of license holders at random and grant them a split. If the demand was inelastic, the winners each get a small windfall and we have a strong signal to repeat the process. Nobody should be too angry at this point. The second lottery...

Of course Boston does see benefit, but not as much as if those people lived in Boston instead. In 2020, there is no need for Boston to fall all over itself to attract suburban commuters. I would think in this day and age, the onus is on outsiders who want access to the economic and cultural...

BRT on Broadway in Somerville will be an excellent complement to GLX and OLT. It will really solidify East Somerville and Winter Hill as transit oriented communities. There isn’t massive development potential on that corridor, but there is existing residential density that can morph over time...

At the risk of being accused of map-making-est perfection-osity, a trunk line down Congress seems ideal. Two lines along the perimeter of the peninsula have about the same catchment as a single line on Congress, but of course actually hitting the CBD employment center dead-on is much more...

I think a friend of mine used to live there, unless there is another condo-ized church in Union Sq.

The have demolished a tunnel which is clearly NOT an active green line tunnel because, you know, the green line is still running. Can you be more clear about what you think they have destroyed?

I agree with this. The pandemic will have some long lasting effects for sure, but the death of cities is not one of them. If anything, we’ve started a domino effect of medium-to-low-salary office jobs getting passed from expensive cities to WFH remote locations to ultimately offshore...

I'll chime in on this tangent just briefly to say that hardware specifically to run AI is still in its infancy and that affects what people even think is possible. There is a leapfrog relationship between the hardware and software sides of AI. As one side of the coin advances, it moves the...

Allow me to do some shoddy math: $1 billion total contract cost / 400 cars = $2.5 million per car $500 per day for a year = $180k The penalty for a car that is a year late is roughly 7% discount. That doesn’t seem extraordinarily steep to me.

I agree. The GLX stations each having only a single access point was a missed opportunity. We will have new stations which is great, but with such tortured walking paths to and from desired destinations that we’ll be asking on day 1 “why isn’t there an exit at the other end of the platform...”

Remember rents are coupled to home prices. Take $9500 per month and break it down into mortgage + tax + HOA as roughly $7500 + $1500 + $500. With today’s interest rate of 3%, $7500 gets you a $2.2 million home (20% down). Taking into account tax deductibility of the interest, that stretches...

Did you consider elevation change? It slows you down in one direction and speeds you up in the other...

^ I had missed those changes. Vast improvement!

There is a cultural component too, or maybe this point is lumped into “local drivers for density.” In Europe and Asia, people live in 1/4 the unit area that Americans expect. We could put more units in the same floorplate, spreading our high land acquisition cost, but our minimum unit size...

I mean, when is this going to open? 2022? Later? I don’t think Covid is going to be a significant factor by the time this is done. The financing seems perfectly reasonable to me. Skate to where the puck is going to be...right? Hotels are in trouble today, but probably not years down the line...