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You know what two points are closer than those two? North and South stations. I keep thinking that we shouldn’t wait for the Fed to fund the NSRL. The Commonwealth could do it and It should have been built already. It’s a question of will.

Boston was building a wide car friendly apron for the E Boston tunnels. Note this was a pre-central artery land taking by 30 years. It’s amazing how dense the area was prior to the car. Dern near every building was 5-10 stories tall… or as I read it: Precedent.

Possible Lobby? https://www.universalhub.com/2024/downtown-fajitas-ritas-soon-be-closed-itas

I kind of agree. To me it's more about facade's scale. It's a city street not a stroad. It needs to be seen from next to it, not across the mall parking lot, or at a glance from Route 1 at 80mph. It's post-modernist bleed over. The city scale buildout is now an odd request in America.

I looked at all the renderings and I was wondering where the typical bridge trolls were. While they’re typically under a completed bridge, it turns out they’re here! Either that or Grimm Brother’s Construction is still bitter about their losing bid.

Reminds me of when my daughter was little and I used to read her this... https://www.amazon.com/Town-That-Got-Out/dp/0879237864

Way back when, Jane Jacobs made that case as well. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/86059/the-economy-of-cities-by-jane-jacobs/ The big picture... innovation happens when you mix different people with different skill sets together seems to be a no brainer, and yet, we cling to outdated...

Throwing this over the transom and running...

…Unless you talk about MGH. You can see every one of Boston’s boom years in the pastiche of exteriors attached to the plex… from Founders to Yawkey and everything in between. And yes. I consider MGH a company.

I wonder how many Walpolean window kicking asshats the people of Seville have to subsidize. Do they kick out LRV windows there for funzies or do they have a society that understands the concept of an ‘own goal’ when you take a commonly shared public amenity out of commission? Stats would be hard...

Honestly everybody everywhere plays Big City every day. I would think the reason Boston was chosen as the target was because we have a long history of cynical meta criticism and would get the joke without being thin skinned. In Herald terms… that means we can take s punch and laugh about it...

True. Kinki-Sharyo just… kinda… worked?

Something like these would work. I’m wondering if it would be substantially cheaper to build something closer to at-grade if we made everything north of the Tobin inaccessible to tall ships. If the state buys the scrapyard and the concrete plant, what else needs that kind of clearance? While...

Around here? https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3488482,-71.0665519,3a,75y,17.84h,96.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfF3rY4xKJSsmtauc_xre1g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

The way our public feedback approach to design goes: a handful of Babcock bordering blue-hair boomer property owners would stop the whole project because they would suddenly be getting traffic on the streets we own. Malvern is all absentee landlord owned student slums = no power, no objections...

Still doesn’t change the fact that we funnel all the Allston Cambridge N-S traffic through 1 bridge. It’s a mistake that should have been fixed 40 years ago. This project needs more crossings.

If only there were alternate routes to get from Allston to Lower Alston during construction … Oh wait.

There was a four decade period of anti-city rhetoric and actions as well as anti-MBTA (= anti-minority dog whistling) from Governor Weld to present day). That hobbled us. Prop 2 1/2 killed a chunk of local revenue that then came from the Commonwealth instead of local budgets. There’s no excuse...

We may have been held to an LA growth standard up to about 1960. Then, apples might have been apples when Boston proper was at or around 800k people. That number dropped to 510k. Boston and the MBTA have been playing a deficit game ever since… sadly out of sheer utility. At 690k, we need to grow...