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Masonry makes everything better.

Could be staging or worker parking.

This probably won't get built anyway.

I didn't mean that to denigrate it. Refuge areas are important pedestrian infrastructure. Honestly, I'm not quite seeing the benefit here - the park area isn't even doubled and I don't feel like direct access from that sidewalk is worth very much.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I think "promised" is a strong word here. The contrast is with the vaportechture in MP's initial submission. It had zero chance of ever happening, and any of the other proposals would have been VE'd too. As for a genuine architectural success, the angled window...

At that site size, is a flatiron marketable? With elevators I'm not sure how much floor space it could possibly have. It could probably only accommodate 1 or maybe 2 units per floor. You say glorified median, others could say "nicer refuge area to wait for the pedestrian signal". Of course, I...

Whenever you feel that way, just head down to the Financial District, Beacon Hill, Central Square, or any of the other places around Boston that are most definitely "real city" in their vibe.

This looks fine, especially with the textured facade (that I hope doesn't get VE'd to flatness). Go ahead and build it.

Not that I think this requires a change, but as long as I'm nitpicking your Blue Line routing, I wonder why a tunneled route (which this would be) would follow a meandering right-of-way that crosses the river twice and doesn't really hit commercial or population centers? If we're doing fantasy...

Maybe call it "Weston", since there are multiple stations in Waltham already (the platforms as proposed would cross the town line like the Green Line would at Route 16)... alternatively, the ancestral station at that location was "Stony Brook", but that might be confusing given the other uses of...

I don't hate the tan paint - it makes it look less like a CTS, which I suspect was the point. CTS is downmarket. That said, I get the desire to keep the building cohesive given its history going all the way back to the Ford assembly hall, but we're aspiring to see most of it come down one day...

That's the plan. I've seen better images somewhere, but this one does the job. The reconfiguration of the 20/117 Interchange will build a higher-capacity "Green Street Connector between the two roads, and "Jones Road", an access road for the station, would extend north from there. It wouldn't be...

The issue with a Brandeis/Roberts park-and-ride is how hard it is to get to from the highway. Up at 20/117 the station/garage would be right off of the main access roads. Brandeis/Roberts is reached via either Waltham Center from the north or the relatively low-traffic River Street from the...

It might make your map too busy, but I'd think the Wonderland-Watertown run should be one line, and the Linden-City Point another. If people from Wonderland want to get to Longwood, they can use the Blue Line on this map... Also, why stop the Blue Line at Brandeis/Roberts, rather than going one...

The former Christmas Tree Shop has gotten a really rapid redo - I'm regularly at Assembly and it happened between last time and today. It's becoming a Raymour & Flanigan furniture store - the working guys I asked must be from near Providence or Worcester because they said that like I should know...

Removing parking when you find yourself with an excess is a pretty worthy reason to delay, from my view. And yeah, by "economic downturn" they mean the economy for them. Interest rates are kind of too high to build right now. Of course, the reason they're still high is that the overall economy...

Good point - I stand somewhat corrected :)

I suspect, FWIW, that the reason USAir Shuttle and USAir weren't co-located has to do with the history of the... umm... Trump Shuttle. Unfortunately, we have him to thank for the Northeast Corridor shuttles Delta and American run today.

I'm not quite on board with that. You'll never turn Route 9 into Comm Ave.