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Any thoughts on how Gov. Healey’s appointment as State Sec of Transportation of Austin TX head of transportation (a former Boston official) will affect Regional rail?

Incidentally, some of the things left out on Opening Week include: 1) Electronic Latch on Bike Cages (no Charlie Card required for entry) 2) Bus Stop relocation. Pretty clear that the current "Tufts Garage" stop on the 80/94/96 needs to move to opposite the station entrance and get a crosswalk plan

That concrete arch makes me feel like I am seeing St John the Divine or Haggia Sofia under construction

Today I learned what a "pulvinated corner" on stonework is and generally nerded out crenellations and bel étage and other stuff architects know the names of but I call doo-dads: NYC’s Upper East Side Explored & Explained | Walking Tour | Architectural Digest

^ cool question but could you reframe it? When I look at NYC I see 5x Boston Metros 1. Manhattan 2. Bronx-Yonkers-White Plains 3. Brooklyn-JFK(South Queens) 4. Queens-Jamaica-Nassau 5. Hoboken-Newark

Edward Durrell Stone (AON Center/Amoco Building, Kennedy Center) was famous in his day for the “stately box” in various heights and widths. The Volpe is a good example of his work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Durell_Stone

So although we have both an “in Boston” and “in the burbs” biking threads, choosing which is relevant for biking in, say, Winthrop or Watertown has never been clear but never been controversial either. It’s a matter of what the poster sees in their heart.

Transit Fare Zone 1A is a mapped thing, Here I am using it as basically Boston’s urbanized metropolitan core, even though its come to include Cambridge Somerville and some or all of the next ring of cities/towns… or “where the streetcars ran” or “where the buses are useful” or “where Commuter...

The whole stretch from Powderhouse Circle to Ball to Magoun Square is going to be revolutionized

Not technically "Boston" but this has always functioned more as a Biking in Zone 1A / Biking in Blue Bike cities:

Understandable. Kinda like Queen Elizabeth, the only British Monarch most have ever known, the Budds (Metroliner/Amfleet I/Amfleet II) are the only NEC intercity train most of us have ever known (the Acela being a different thing altogether) I will only kinda of miss them, the way I miss the...

Yes, most people don't realize that most cathedrals were brightly painted -- because the paint didn't last but they can still find small quantities of paint flakes that tell them it was all pretty "harlequin" on every surface. At the Abbey St Foy in Conques there's still a hint of the...

Vimeo video from Amtrak (mostly just "flying camera" views of the static renders, but does show spacious vestibules) Also note: push-pull seating, where half of any seats face forward, and half backward

2-and-1 Business Class Interior: 2-and-2 Coach Class Interior

Here are images of the Airo snagged before Amtrak's rendering page broke: View showing passengers-in-first-car: Side view showing traditional wheel setup

Amtrak unveils "Airo" its fleet to replace 1) In 2026: The Cascades (currently Talgo trainsets) starting in 2026 and 2) In 2027 The Amfleets that are most of the "not Acela" fleet on the Northeast Corridor and any service touching NYC One "F-Line" question: will the NEC really see the "no...

In many ways, the map is a pretty good look at where folks with big incomes or valuable homes live who have access to CR: Wellesley, Winchester, Medfield, Cohasset and those that just have fancy houses (Dover, Marblehead, Lynnfield) And confirms the intertwined concepts of 40B housing (every...

I don't know why this thread wasn't open to replies. I Unlocked it. If I did something wrong, DM me. As my apology, accept this link to the zoomable view of the precinct map: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/poll.vault/viz/Queston1PrecinctLevelResults/Sheet1?publish=yes

I really like the idea of developing the adjacent parking lots between D & E streeets (and east of E) as part of some integrated east-of-D plan. I also like that they're working on related land uses (day care, office, hotel, park), and not currently pushing for more exhibition hall space (Given...

This doesn't really have a home, but since it is at the intersection of politics, density, and Commuter Rail, I thought I'd put it here: In the 2022 Election, availability of Transit seemed highly correlated with whether you'd vote to raise taxes on incomes over $1m: (source: Rich Parr's twitter: )