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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/04/business/takeda-kendall-square-talking-points/

Agreed that the plan as proposed sucked. Say what you will about the Newton plan, but it centered the units right on the stations. That wasn't the argument made against it, though, so I'm not letting Milton off the hook.

As a variation on this, I'd actually leave the north side alone and just rezone the far more underdeveloped south side, shifting the lanes north. In fact, you don't even really need to do that, since there's such a wide buffer on the south side right now you'd mostly be narrowing the planted...

It's a good thing they named a street after him too, since this won't look much like a bridge in a couple of years. I've never understood why they reverted to Jersey Street instead of extending "David Ortiz Way" past Fenway.

APPROVED: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/16/business/fenway-lab-office-library-bpda/?s_campaign=audience%3Athreads

PPT is up: https://www.mass.gov/doc/massdot-meeting-presentation-somerville-mcgrath-hwy-21324/download It has renders in addition to the layouts:

I'm not advocating actually trying this. It would be tied up in endless litigation and would be so unpopular that it would be pointless to pursue it. The point is that Milton needs to understand that they voted to break the law. That can have pretty extreme consequences. It would be best if...

The Commonwealth has the power to involuntarily dissolve Milton as a town. Folks there should remember that.

I notice they've proposed eliminating left turns from McGrath onto Washington Street in both directions... I kind of get the NB one since they want you to take Somerville Avenue instead, but what's the alternative to the SB left onto EB Washington?

This is one where the inside looking nice is more important than the outside looking nice...

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They might not, but Stephanie Pollack did. When she was CEO she commuted to work from Newtonville. I shared train cars with her. I'm not sure if the Tibbits-Nutt, who lives in Lincoln, rides the Fitchburg line to work with any regularity.

Yeah, we're down to two mods. Hopefully they stick around.

Boston's other public housing redevelopments (Bunker Hill, Mildred Hailey) don't look like this. Neither do the ones in Cambridge and Somerville. What this does look like is the awful Harvard ERP. Also - the buildings are color-coded? Are you serious?

The problem with highway-based BRT is that the ridership and usefulness will almost always be higher running on smaller roads through commercial centers. The MBTA's redesign isn't placing any bus routes on McGrath Highway, for instance.

Gotta be honest: two years late for something like this isn't wild, particularly given the Pandemic happened during that time.

BCDC: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/gc9j2fqqeapgkwv2mt6izr2x3xwaa7vq

BCDC: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/xsapwi7rc38dgzs5q36kv7h120ezn44l

As a streak, yes, though we can expect a new one soon for Fan Pier H.

"Some in the media" is just Shaughnessy, right?