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No. The Green Line Type 10s are from CAF, the same factory that did the Type 9s and Type 7 rehabs. It's a way better choice and should go much more smoothly.

Worth noting that the building at 105 Broadway likely would not be a blob. Nothing they've done at MXP has been so far, and they've gone above-and-beyond in unexpected ways.

You somehow caught not one, but two couples snuggling up to watch that sunset. That's about the best statement of success you could get for that public amenity.

And oh boy, did people on this site hate it when it was proposed...

Ambitious thought that they would move the Fluff Festival there... They also come very close to suggesting in the full site render that South Street will punch through to Webster. That's currently a parking lot driveway, so it would take some doing to make it happen, but it should.

Off-topic, but Illinois is one of the few places in the US where these exist. I believe they're very common in Europe. I'm not sure how the cost pencils out with duplicative rest stops on each side vs. one more expensive building, but they certainly look cooler both inside and out.

According to Wikipedia, yes, though since this article is surely updated mostly by people on this site, it's kind of a circular logic... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Boston

The demolition took place over the last couple of months - was there something wrong with the buildings on site that would have required their demolition without any plans to build?

No, the best angle is the oblique from I-93 (and presumably somewhere else on the other sides) where it looks blade-thin. It isn't on the lower floors, so it's a really clever use of angles.

Fair enough on my musing, but my proposal leaves the letters.

That's fair, but I think that asking people to get used to one change once is an acceptable thing.

This is part of the value of a single sequence. You can be told "you're at gate 99" and it doesn't matter whether it's E or C. All you need to know is that if you're flying Jetblue (or picking up someone who is) you need to pick them up at C (unless they're coming in internationally, in which...

Yup, which is why I did. See the note I put next to the C piers about leaving 6 numbers worth of slack there. Also, FWIW, I think it's less of a fail to have a couple of gates become A/B than to have a sequence of 39, 40, 23, 24... a person can pretty easily process an A/B subsequence (and it...

I was not prepared for how much of a skyline impact these buildings will have. From the Mass. Ave. Bridge, they're basically as prominent as 1 Longfellow Place.

If the residential tower makes progress at the same rate as the office tower, the skyline in this area is going to be transformed very suddenly, very soon.

So a suggestion for Massport: Renumber all Logan gates in a single sequence, as they do at SFO, LAX, etc. Reasons: - A-B connector completes post-security connections, making the whole airport function as a continuous concourse. - B-C connector gates have numbers that make zero sense in...

That's fair, but I don't think it's a huge concern right in Downtown. I might be wrong.

Because one lowers housing costs in a housing crisis, and the other lowers expense reports for convention-goers.

I'm not sure those are the best examples. Winthrop Square and SST were cut by the FAA, the Hub on Causeway towers just shrank during value engineering, and One Bromfield wasn't a realistic proposal. One example that springs to mind is the unbuilt 1000 Boylston, which I think lost 100-200 feet...

The mad lads are really going for it... and yeah, this is nowhere near the West End. This is even at the edge of the Bullfinch Triangle. 40 stories puts us in the same range as the Hub on Causeway and the Alcott. Interestingly, the Alcott only has 470 units in its 44 stories, while this is also...