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If people want to go from Worcester to NYC today via train, do most people take commuter rail to Boston and then Amtrak from there, or Peter Pan/Greyhound bus to Springfield and Amtrak from there?

Why does "high end" still look cheap?

One of my pet peeves with MassDOT's "complete streets" designs is that they are STILL trying to build/add car capacity and then adding more sidewalks and bike lanes on top of that. In many locations, the physical constraints of the right of way prevent them from adding even more lanes, but in a...

What would be REALLY cool is a temporary stop in W Springfield during the Big E. I don't know if that's possible but the LSL goes within about 0.6 mile of the Big E:

This is definitely better, especially with the urban form, but the materials and architectural details leave much to be desired.

"We have designed a beautiful network of safe protected bike lanes. Now we are going to have a bunch of community meetings where a bunch of old cranky car drivers complain and then we will make the design worse in order to try to please them (which it will not.)"

I would have loved to see part of City Hall Plaza set up as a "permanent" food truck park, where trucks could station around a central seating area.

It was built this way so that the commuters coming from Quincy and Braintree never had to mix with the folks from Dorchester (i.e. racism.) Originally the Braintree Line didn't even stop at JFK/UMass.

Stations in highway medians are generally terrible for transit. They are LOUD and unpleasant to stand when waiting, and it is very hard to create a pleasant and safe walking route to and from them. I would highly recommend against them. It is much better for stations to be in areas where...

How I would solve Boston's housing shortage: - Convert many of the pre-war downtown office buildings to housing - Permit new housing on every surface parking lot within the City of Boston - Replace low density public housing with mid-rise walkable mixed use development (mixed income housing +...

I guess we're just not doing cornices anymore?

Ugh such a wide curb cut too

I think MassDOT is over-engineering this so-called "bridge" project. Way too many ramps and far too much complexity.

I don‘t understand anything about this building and I think it looks terrible. The asymmetric windows, the grouping of multiple floors to look like one big floor, the 3D elements that don’t line up. Do architects actually think this is good?

I am so much happier with the final approved design than the original one. It’s stately yet modern and will anchor that corner nicely. The South End is really all about traditional architecture with high quality materials and detailed ornamentation. It is not about quirky designs, asymmentry, or...

Ugh that's a tan turd right there.

In 2021, we should be shrinking or removing highways, not taking private land for them. There are much simpler solutions to BU giving up land and having to partially demolish buildings in order to preserve an 8 lane highway and 4 lane "parkway."

There really is no reason for the Mass Pike to be 8 lanes through the throat section. It's 6 lanes west of Newton Corner and 6 lanes east of Copley Square (as well as only 6 through lanes through the Allston interchange today), so those extra 2 lanes are really not providing much benefit. This...

Lots of blank walls and garage doors due to minimum parking requirements. I guess it's not such a big deal if it's on a side street, but it's still not great.

Well... it's a building all right.