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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Right, that's how it's *supposed* to work, but I find it rather telling that the completion % they keep announcing are EXACTLY in line with calendar time. Like, the 69% complete announcement came only a few hours before 69% of the time had elapsed. Hour-by-hour accuracy makes me pretty skeptical...
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    E-Scooter Rentals in MA

    Agreed, adding ebikes to the bluebikes network is MUCH more desirable to me than adding dockless anything.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    They went in on Franklin St. near the Capuano school yesterday too. Speedbump Day for everybody it seems like.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Are there additional stations that the Harverhill line trains could stop at during the shutdown? I know they stop at Malden Ctr, could they stop at Oak Grove? Wellington? I'm assuming definitely not at Assembly/Sullivan/Community based on how the stations are built.
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    New England Electrical Grid

    I thought it didn't need to get smaller, just shove over a few feet?
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    "I presume Brickbottom is so called because they used to make brick there." Yep, but that's going way way back. Supposedly the clay in that part of town made good bricks. The old industrial buildings that got abandoned and then saved by the artist's collective are more recent - a cannery, a...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Too old, maybe? I think that structure predated widespread asbestos use.
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    Two lanes or one?

    Holy cow I actually just went and got a picture of that exact intersection to post and it turns out you already had. It's absolutely the worst. It's anywhere from 2 to 6 lanes depending on time of day (with the construction like in that image 4 seems to be the consensus, but back before the...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Federally mandated safety stand down coming tonight:
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    From the first-hand reports from passengers (you can find them on the /r/Boston thread) it sounds like there was no intercom so the "self evacuating" passengers got started fleeing the train before the motorperson had a chance to take control of the situation. If you put passengers in a car...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    No official word. The rumor mill has repeatedly suggested mid-to-late Sept, if I recall correctly.
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    CambridgeSide Galleria Reno/Redev | First Street | East Cambridge

    Probably more for the service counter than sales, it's still the place you bring your apple products for repairs but most sales have moved online.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Looks a hell of a lot nicer than a blank beam. The white/black/red piece on the left is particularly nicely done. Very clean lines. I feel like there's already a thread to fight about graffiti on though. Seems like we've been down this thread derailment already?
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    Outcomes in order of my preference: 1) They sell for a fat check and housing gets built. 2) They sell for a fat check and a lab gets built. 3) They build a better storage facility with ground floor activation and mixed use. 4) They don't do anything and keep running the storage facility as is...
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    The way they're attempting to use hardship variance to stamp down a standard uhaul template instead of designing a building that meets local ordinance is particularly stupid. I can't signal boost you on twitter since I don't use it, but it seems like the city is already on the right page, they...
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    100 Chestnut Street | Inner Belt | Somerville

    In my opinion anything on this side of the tracks is Brickbottom, not Inner Belt. The tracks are a pretty ironclad wall between the two.
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    Hotel and Residential Development | 20 Inner Belt Road | East Somerville

    This is all the residential section (orange). The hotel will be in the front of the site, on Washington st (red). Right now it's partly staging area and partly still an operating parking lot.
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    Boynton Yards | 99-101 South/808 Windsor | Somerville

    No, which actually makes it weirder. That means someone deliberately printed that in CS when a template in a normal font already existed.
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    I'm with Ruairi on this one, particularly as there is *already a self storage monolith at assembly*. I'm not totally opposed to a storage facility, but it would be better done like the assembly parking garages - in the middle of a block wrapped with housing and retail. At the very least a retail...
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    Union Square Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    I think most people call that area Somerville Ave and leave it at that, but I've also seen it called Conway (which I still think is the perfect name for the future T stop when they someday do green-to-porter).

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