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So.... my takeaway: instead of saying "the Commonwealth grossly underfunds and neglects commuter rail maintenance" we'd say "the Commonwealth grossly underfunds and neglects regional rail maintenance"?

Looks like the MBTA is starting to prep for Red-Blue already by deferring maintenance… https://www.universalhub.com/2022/seasonal-art-display-bowdoin-t-stop

Multiple flags down on the field. Subjective judgement on ‘successful’ and false equivalency of that parklet con tot lot comparing to Fred Olmsted’s awesome classical waterside promenade with plantings so perfect you forget an actual human being put them there. It’s bad enough that way back...

It looks like the side view of a B-2 Spirit i

<pulls pin, throws grenade> We should run Storrow EB to LMA traffic through Brookline from BU Central. Shorter distance. <runs>

How loud will the person in the wheelchair be screaming to be heard over all that unnecessary shit above their head? It'll be just like now -- a place you have to get through, not a place to be. The most accurate part of these sketches is these people look like inverted ghosts.

They had to make the overpasses transparent because they don't want us to think that it's the same turd with a different polish. Throw down some new sod, add a tree, a new path or two. It's design chicanery! You want to kill heavy traffic in that area of town and take some people off Mass Ave...

Cool pic. I'm thankful someone leaned out of the the Hoffman Building to get this shot. I've never seen a before from that angle. More evidence of our sick love affair with unbridled mobility: Gotta love how we ripped down the city to give everyone at-grade parking in the remnants of the city...

On a beauty scale where 1 is a MASSDOT standard I-beamed concrete block highway bridge, and 10 being a sleek Calatrava looking floating arc, this bridge comes in at a solid 5 at least. Beauty is subjective.

That design style says "This bar code isn't reading right. Guess I have to key it in. <pause> Crap. <picks up intercom mic> CAN I GET A PRICE CHECK ON MARGINAL FACADES?"

As designed, this is not an overpass common in this country by any means: https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/north-washington-street-charlestown-bridge

Now if we could connect the other side of Fort Point Channel. To that end, when was Dorchester Ave from A-Street to the Federal Reserve Building closed to through traffic?

It would be plain silly to rip it all down. My bet is they know how to fix it. What they're doing now is trying to figure out how to fix it cheaply, and trying to determine who built what part or it incorrectly so they can stick that company with the overbill. /speculation. This post needz moar...

Other oblique reasons why CRRC trains are going to be late: Checks might be bouncing in China. The quasi-state owned financial company Evergrande, in the midst of collapsing after a decade of untethered bankrolling of mega-development, and everybody is mortgaged waaaay beyond their means...

Great societies aren't built, they're maintained. This bridge situation is more proof we're not great. I think it may be the same pole that we're seeing here that I used to walk by every day for 6 months when I had a contract in the Seaport. Somebody had left a tight-wrapped, presumably full...

I like it... though I wish the old CBT vestibule at 110 Canal didn't block this from going up against the tall wall to the north. Another missing tooth in the streetwall and 30w x 10xd x 16 floors space (4,000 sq.ft.) that won't be on the market or taxed.

I look at that image and I think of a tall office park in Waltham. Not really neighborhood-y. No street wall. No grand walk or truly inviting public space. In short: Meh. Also, that is where the first overtopping happened in January 2018... I love that this is a normal high tide captured on...

So it goes without saying that you do NOT want to go swimming in the Musquashcut Brook. Come on Scituate... Get your collective action on! It doesn't make you a communist. It makes your backyard less smelly.

I predict if there is even a weak Nor’easter anywhere from December 22-26 of this year, we will see 2018 levels again. https://www.boatma.com/tides/Dec/Charlestown-Charles-River-entrance-Boston-Harbor.html