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    Dick’s House of Sports | Prudential Center | Back Bay

    This would be a great place for a Target.
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    South Boston Infill and Small Developments

    Gray and white is the new beige.
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    South Boston Infill and Small Developments

    Boston has been feeling a lot like Montreal these days, and I love it!
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    General Boston Discussion

    Those Brookline examples are such a shame because of the insane minimum parking requirements. Basically anything new in Brookline has a huge garage door or driveway on the ground floor rather than a nice front porch or garden.
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    MassDOT managed to put in everything that everyone asked for but in a way that sucks for everyone. It's pretty impressive actually. For example, why does a BRAND NEW STREET NETWORK that doesn't exist today consist of all 4-5 lane streets?! Isn't the point of a grid that each street can be...
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    Biking in Boston

    Totally agree sm89! Just look at Mass Ave. It started as striped bike lanes, and over time the City upgraded much of it to protected lanes. Same thing with Comm Ave by BU. Simpler improvements generate more bicyclists, which then generate political will to make the facilities even better.
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    Biking in Boston

    In general, new bike lanes have been way too slow to be rolled out, and in a very disconnected way. There still is not a connected network. (Even the protected lanes around the North End and North Station don't connect to anything, not even the bridges.) Still way too many places where you go...
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Also, the Mass Pike will be 6 lanes for 10 years of construction. If we can survive for 10 years, and long term goals are to reduce SOVs in the City, doesn't it make the most sense to just LEAVE it at 6 lanes when we're done?
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    The Factory at 46 Wareham | South End

    Are offset windows the trend of the current moment that people will look back on and go "ugh, I can't believe architects thought that was clever?" in the future? (I'm already thinking that now.) :-P
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    A little transparency would certainly help with the "how many lanes do we need" discussion. MassDOT treats the public and the Task Force like they're idiots. So the question is: Did MassDOT actually analyze 6 or 7 lanes vs 8 lanes to see how it could be done with the least negative impact or are...
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Yes but they decided "we should really only present what we know MassDOT would actually consider." And along with that, they figured that "if we show that we can fit everything at grade with all the lanes MassDOT wants, then it is CERTAINLY possible to fit everything with fewer lanes."
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    The reason why most of the proposals by the advocates had all the lanes is because MassDOT said "we will not consider any proposals that don't have the same number of lanes as today." But that doesn't mean the advocates actually wanted the lanes.
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Advocates and the Task Force have been challenging MassDOT on this "rule" about the number of lanes since the very beginning. They refuse to budge and just keep coming up with more proposals with the same number of lanes. You talk as if the public has any power here at all. They don't. Are you...
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    It's a BS ground rule that MassDOT imposed and no one else agreed to. That's why no matter what alternative they present, people don't like it. We should absolutely keep calling them out on it.
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    The 4th lane in both directions between Allston and Back Bay really is just an extended on-ramp/off-ramp. Going westbound, the 4th lane is added from the Copley on-ramp and becomes an exit-only lane at the Allston exit. Going eastbound, the 4th lane is added from the Allston on-ramp and becomes...
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Here's an idea. During the 10 years when construction is ongoing and I-90 is reduced to 6 lanes, BUILD THE TRANSIT YOU NEED so that when the project is done, it can remain at 6 lanes.
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    East Boston Infill and Small Developments

    That new police station rendering looks really nice. It's got a bit of mid-century modern going on.
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Just make I-90 6 lanes instead of 8 lanes through the throat and you can fit everything at the surface quite easily. We're going to be at reduced capacity for 10 years anyway, and the city and region's long-term goals are to reduce the number of cars on the road and shift more people to walking...
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    Proposed But Never Built

    And a giant F-U to Roxbury and Northeastern University as well.
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    Proposed But Never Built

    Have you guys seen this? It's the 1962 Inner Belt plan overlaid on today's roadway system. http://mapjunction.com/VIEWER/16938

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