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FIrst draft with the BHA Busway:

And yes, changing the map to fit this is a royal pain, in case you were wondering.

I'm not sure every T-Mobile needed to be labeled but some details of the project are nice to have. The American Legion Hwy alternate seems rather silly, those stops would be less than 500ft apart. For comparison Allston St and Warren St on the B branch, two stops that I would say are generally...

I managed to get a zoom call with Jamie Eldridge a year-ish ago, that was pretty good. He's a fairly big regional rail supporter which is nice. Lori Trahan on the other hand gave an answer that was both long and entirely useless. (Although that wasn't MBTA related)

Wise words.

On a more positive note, looks like they have finally figured out how to work on one track while shutting down the other.

Quite frankly it probably wasn't happening regardless of who won, it will take some catastrophic event for everyone to finally pull their heads out of their asses. Because of the Harbor Islands any South shore barrier should be relatively cheap. Boston also doesn't really need to deal with the...

So then put the tolls on Storrow Drive, the Sumner/Callaghan tunnels, the Longfellow/Harvard/Charles River Dam/N. Washington St bridges, any streets Crossing Mass Ave until Melnea Cass, and finally A St, The S. Boston Bypass, and any streets that connect to Summer St in Seaport. Give all...

I'm going to keep saying it, real estate development. The JR or MTR model.

They were a little bit delayed but apart from a couple minor teething pains (and some questionable aesthetic choices) they're good trains.

One A340 and one 747, the rare birds club.

Not impossible, (According to one railroad.net poster the max speed used to be 50, no source provided) but it's probably not a priority either. The only place you'd really see significant time savings is between Malden Center and Wellington as that's the only place with stops over 1 mile apart...

This wasn't by happenstance though. Watertown, Brookline, Arlington, Brighton, Southie, much of Dorchester, etc were all Streetcar Suburbs, they were designed around streetcars in particular, not with rapid transit conversion in mind. That was the point, lower densities offered an escape from...

Transit did extend west of Boston, it was the streetcars. Rapid transit didn't, again because of said streetcars already being successful.

You can, but that's not the only way, or even the best way, to have density. Coal Harbor, in downtown Vancouver, is less dense than the brownstones of the South End. If maximizing the number of units is what you're after, skyscrapers aren't the best way to do that. Population density in the...

No I'm saying it will be primarily commercial space with a few penthouse apartments. Commercial -> Residential conversions aren't impossible but they're not an immediate thing and I think it's been pretty well demonstrated at this point that they aren't very popular with developers due to cost...

"Constraint: There must be more stacking of different uses" this plan was done by morons. Anyway, here's my response: 1. This plan seems to entirely neglect what Boston needs. We don't need another Seaport, we need housing and areas where people can live. 2. Despite all the talk about human...

Also just going further: The plan here is basically Seaport 2.0. A crap ton of commercial space, some luxury housing, not a lot else. Is that actually what Boston needs? It seems filling the northern hafl of the area with high density low-rises would be better, and help the area merge into...

"Human scale" proceeds to show massive boulevards and skyscrapers

It's been a while but I seem to remember Southwick Zoo being decent too.