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Elevation might have something to do with it... I don't know. But I assume it's mostly because it's basically still on the bridge at that point. There's no way to do a subway station at Charles Circle if the train is also crossing the river on the Longfellow Bridge.

Then... get fired. Like, what's Pollack's end game? She's burning her bridges with the activist base she was formerly a part of. I guess she wants some board of directors appointments and some consultancy gigs or something.

The DOT Secretary is part of the admin but isn't powerless to push an agenda with the governor. To peddle Baker's "pay attention to what I say about transit and infrastructure but ignore what I do" schtick discredits her career as a transit advocate.

It's a tough subterranean geography for tunneling because of the lack of bedrock anywhere near the surface for boring. Cut-cover has all the typical utility and building foundation challenges, but not impossible. So it's not going to be on anyone's realistic Top 10 expansion projects. The...

He signed it. But he vetoed all of the Ride-Share fees and the means testing for RTAs.

Probably not LRT ever. Even true BRT is tricky given the volumes of traffic that Mass Ave receives in certain sections.

This is... an odd thing to bring up for someone who isn't Rifleman and wasn't active here when he was... hmmmmmmm

Yang has been getting a lot of press because he's known outside the city. I know many folks have high esteem for his pragmatic outside-the-box thinking. But he's getting some criticism from the YIMBY crowd for this:

I got guesses for some of them. I don't remember the public art in Alewife. Haven't been in that station for years, though it used to be my standard stop when I was a kid from the burbs. Fenway? That's all I got. Gonna guess Stony Brook for part 1? Part II... Park St? Coz of the native fish...

There's still a wood plank?! Hahahaha. When was that window busted out?

They would if it was their only 2-seat ride to the Seaport.

Excellent!

You could also help B/C-->SBW in this alt if there was a Huntington-Kenmore via Brookline Village short-turn that would give them a 2-seat ride. Lots of options... now we gotta get the Commonwealth to study it... 😅

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