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If you guys haven't been here yet, you should. They did a great job renovating. I think it serves a big need too, for athletic gear and clothing right in the center of Boston.

I think some of the food stalls may already be open when I walked through earlier this week, but they're having an official opening party later this month.

If only they had removed all the underpasses and built an actual city street as had been agreed upon two administrations ago...

CONES. Just put cones in the buffer until flex posts arrive. They FINALLY did this on Tremont St after people complained for months and months.

Assuming what we see here is built, the one big problem I see is the multi-use path connections at Boylston St. 1) Making bikes and peds share all those crosswalks will not work. The pedestrian volumes are very high, particularly before and after Fenway Park games/events. Bikes do not mix in...

This is why back when the Boston Bikes program was initially formed, a key part of the initial plan was a bi-directional protected bike lane along the entire length of Dartmouth St from Columbus Ave to the Esplanade. Unfortunately that has since been abandoned.

I wonder if the automobile throughput across the bridge was also helped by the fact that what was 3 through lanes entering the bridge with the on-ramp traffic forced to merge in a pretty short stretch is now two through lanes entering the bridge with the on-ramp given its own dedicated lane...

In addition, the pedestrian signal timing is abysmal. They clearly only looked at car delay when timing the signals. If you follow the multi-stage crossings for peds and bikes, it takes FAR too long to get across the street. MassDOT really needs to learn that slapping on sidewalks and bike...

The irony is that the North End residents ASKED for those ramps to be there as part of the Big Dig. They were actually given the option to have no ramps in that area but they said "no."

I do not understand why they are keeping it as a two lanes eastbound at Harvard Ave when it is only ever fed by one lane from that intersection. It's such a waste of space in the most constrained part of the bridge!

I would accept bike/ped (and maybe bus) only connections!

I didn't realize the church is the reason why the ground level experience of One Dalton is so lousy. Very lame.

I really hate this game architects play these days where they hope we won't notice the top floor or two because they make it gray. You are not fooling anyone! I would actually just prefer that they make it the same color as the rest of the building, and don't even step it back. Just be honest!

BBQ in Boston simply is not good. I don't know what the problem is, but people can't seem to figure out how to make good BBQ here. I also think that BBQ is not something that people tend to think of for a nice sit-down dinner. To me, if you're going to do BBQ, it should be fast casual. It can...

It is very much possible to preserve historic buildings (or at bare minimum the facades) while the city continues to grow and evolve. That's a large part of what makes Boston so special. Once the old buildings are gone, there is nothing new that will ever come close to replacing them. No one...

Hey instead of staying home and watching the game on our TV screen, let's go to the stadium and watch it on the huge screen there (and pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege!) I thought the point of going to see things in person was to get away from screens.

Also, make all liquor licenses, including existing ones, non-transferrable.

I don't understand why the City doesn't just petition the Legislature to let them handle their own liquor licensing like EVERY OTHER CITY AND TOWN. And if the Legislature says no, drag the hell out of them publicly for it.

I beg to differ:

I am convinced that MassDOT has absolutely no focus or incentive to come up with a cost-efficient design and is only concerned about not reducing capacity during construction and reducing "bottlenecks" by adding more capacity in the final design. They tack on multi-use paths and call it a...