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If I may agree/summarize F-Line to focus on "Almost everywhere EMU with an OCS (Overhead Contact System), and almost-never BEMU" 1) since electric trains need about the same MWh ("fuel") whether they sip it through a wire or gulp it into a battery, the substations ("fuel pumps") are similar...

Any photos show what these dorms look like from inside or floor plan? (Kinda wondering about Simmons Hall too)

I don't think electrifying the San Bernadino line is a "simply" Apparently the line is mostly single-track. They clearly wanted a full rail-to-LAUPT, but apparently have they decided they can launch from Rancho Cucamonga and figure out later how to get others to build the expensive...

*sigh* it sure would be nice

I am assuming that it will take between half and all the width of the parking lot (it could connect to the existing dorm at its protruding common rooms) At that rate, the site is deeper than it would need to be for your basic “Hampton Inn” (deep double occupancy rooms with bathrooms on a single...

Tufts announces May 4th call to discuss new dorm-over-retail at 401 Boston Ave, Medford; https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mkRHboJST0aqYUk3SVd07Q#/registration

What's this 4-over-parking apartment development between Mirak (1101-ish Mass Ave) nd the Minuteman? https://goo.gl/maps/yB59G4yd2adn1Grv7 As seen from the Minuteman today:

Medford is planning bike lanes on Winthrop St -- the north south route from Winchester Center to Tufts U. If you feel like doing a little advocacy (and seeing how a Traffic Commission functions) please join today (Tue Apr 11 2023) on this Zoom 5pm (Medford is borderline between "Blue Bike" and...

Boston Slow Streets page says start the process of adding a stop sign with a 311 request https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/neighborhood-slow-streets

Also, this thread could cover the much simpler act of replacing signs that are too small, nonstandard, or faded/defaced. Changes of this sort are usually just a question of finding the sign department, since they don’t involve changing “policeable rules” (so it is an easy way to get started)...

Can folks share tips on how to “change the rules” on the streets of cities and towns? In Medford, for example, a new stop sign or lower speed limit takes a citizen petition and a daytime hearingin front of some kind of police board (and I don’t know whether the city engineers office is...

I Loved Norwegian (flew J class for price of Y for work trip) and am liking the idea of a well timed nonstop to BCN (self paid leisure trip with child)

Has anyone tried Level (www.flylevel.com) the Barcelona (BCN) hubbed long-haul, low-cost member of IAG (British, Aer Lingus, Iberia) ?

Now do a commuter rail station ;-)

[Mod note: I or another mod should move nearly-all the 2021 Mayoral Election stuff to the Harbor Garage Pontification thread, which will remain a lockbox for our off topic stuff.]

I am unlocking this thread at the suggestion of a valued member because they spotted news in BLDUP that the garage had been refinanced for $90M. https://www.bldup.com/posts/harbor-garage-in-downtown-boston-refi-d-for-90-million Let’s try a focused conversation on actual facts of this project...

Not sure what thread I'd better post this in (clue in the clueless mod if you think of something ;-), but it would seem to me that post-Covid, the Commonwealth of Mass could do a lot of win-win-win real estate deals similar to the good we can all picture for 600 Washington and DCF, since the...

I think the other change to regional rail would allow some de-peaking -- Can't clockface schedules reduce platform conflicts?

What's happening with the Washington Essex Building...a full block right in the center of everything (not sure what its street address is) From Essex at Hayward, seems like (yet another) case where a land tax (high) instead of property tax (low on derelict buildings) would incentize full...

From Purchase Street on Saturday (25th)