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Looks like the T is trying to get MAAB variance for a section of sidewalk on Medford St, near the Gilman Square substation. It was rebuilt by the contractor as part of the project, but it doesn’t meet the standards for accessibility. City Council is discussing it tonight.

That’s going to be a big boy on the skyline.

Payback for saddling the T with Big Dig debt? T: “That’s a nice little highway project you’ve got there… It would be a shame if something happened to it.” DOT: “What can be done?” T: “Build the south side maintenance facility.”

Love the sight of I-93 dead ending in Charlestown.

It’s located between the 62 and 76 routes, and the Rev and Lexpress are nearby. Walking distance to Stop & Shop and Walgreens. There is a very tenuous case to be made for TOD-style parking restrictions, assuming residents were working in the city. It’s shame there wasn’t a convenient Red Line...

The windows in Bloomingdale’s overlooking Route 9 and the hanger like feel of the main part of the mall are what I recall from my childhood.

Nice perch for your photos. You’re going to have a front row seat.

I think it would only work if there were a maximum lot size and some regulation around building height, to ensure variation within and across blocks. For the height it would be something along the lines of “building may be between X-Y heights, with no two adjacent buildings being the same...

Nice upgrade on the density. I still miss the old Why Not for my greasy spoon fix when I worked in the area.

Mission accomplished for JetBlue. They were either going to get a bunch of planes or a hamstrung competitor.

Could we swap the bridge with the SS United States, which is now destined to become a reef in Florida?

The apartment building at 250 Kendall St in Kendall Square had a similar setup.

Twilight is an improvement, but they really should go for the artistic night time render.

We need more Hugh Ferriss and less megaplex CGI in our renders.

Some things never change, like the last candy factory in Cambridge: 2004 2024

Crinkle Crown is the new colossal order.

The T management is probably eyeing the calendar to see exactly how many days until they can scrap the Type 8 albatrosses.

I had to double check my photos to make sure that the Type 8 involved in the derailment wasn’t the one used on last weekend’s BSRA fan trip. That would have been a cruel irony.

Here’s one from almost exactly 20 years ago. MIT’s Picower Institute under construction. Edit: I completely missed the Genesis locomotive in the grade crossing.

Why the heck couldn’t the jury room look that good when I was called there?