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Does the MBTA have the operational rolling stock for a schedule change on the Red Line?

No, I am actually talking about the New England families who ran plantations -- in New England. They had large land holdings the used enslaved labor to crop the land. They also often had additional plantation holdings in the Caribbean (often Antigua) -- which they supplied from crops grown in...

There were landed gentry in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they just were not as prevalent as their southern brethren. Winslows and Chaffees in the south east, Brinleys of Boston and Newport, Royals in Medford, come to mind. Boston Brahmins tended to be merchants, politicians, educators or...

Concerning tunneling along the Minuteman Trail, I have to think there is a (more expensive) variant on cut-and-cover that allows you to work, section by section, and perhaps keep one side of the linear park open with a cover while tunneling under the other side. Certainly more expensive, but...

Your item 3 of the disadvantages basically says this would be a very expensive train that serves almost no one. The Rt 2 walkshed is hideously thin.

Access to ORH (Worcester Regional) is not the issue. Flight density is the issue. You can only travel nonstop to a handful of locations, usually once per day. That is not going to cut it for affluent Metro-West business travelers

Don't they rely on the overflow of the garage across the street. Perhaps that just becomes the base parking capacity -- it is mostly empty on weekends when the market is busiest.

I think the reference at the time was to Michael Graves' PoMo (stuff) the Dolphin and Swan. Basically cartoon caricatures of architecture.

This one is pretty much the poster child for the type of building that is relatively straightforward to convert. Smaller floor plates and very high window wall to floor area ratio. Also a great area for more residential.

The MBTA does a horrible job talking about this, but all the questions being asked about all the costs associated with the North Station Draw One replacement are discussed in the 12 pages of AB preceding this one. Yes, you need the 6 track spans to get to Regional Rail frequencies (along with...

Has anyone studied more tiers of "affordability". Basically require a more blended mix of low AMI housing, worker housing, mid-market housing and luxury housing? Basically not just bottom and top 10% only housing.

Perhaps the BSL level is more of a concern in a mixed-use building like this versus a pure lab building. KPMG might care, for example.

The negative of this is you lose all the terra firma parcels that could anchor air rights. It is much easier to build air rights projects if the towers can be anchored on solid land. A bold strategy for these parcels would have moved Marginal and Herald Streets out to the center of the air...

I am so confused? I know there is a glut of office space.... but isn't there also a glut of lab space?

The Pike is relatively benign until you get Chinatown. The wide canyon of the Pike plus the cut of I-93 did major damage to that part of the city (aided by BRA Urban Renewal on both sides of the Pike). And throughout the city the air quality near the Pike is horrible (deadly levels of PM 2.5)...

Agree with a lot of this sentiment. You are going to have a very hard time convincing residents in Charlestown or Roxbury, who have spent the last 4 decades helping their neighborhoods recover from the blight of the old Orange Line ELs through their narrow streets, that they want ELs again.

A short form answer would be: Domestic focus, lounges are about credit card agreements (and the $$$ they drop to the carriers). International focus, lounges are about your premium tier fliers and keeping them happy. You don't get frequent international business class flyers dropping the big...

Lounge space it for airlines to pamper their most valued customers. Frequent (usually business) travelers who often pay full fare, buy upgrades, etc. These are the travelers who actually keep airlines in business. These customers are valuable enough that airports risk losing flights (and even...

Well. that bike lane is toast. That tiny curb is going to be double and triple parked all the time.

It has been 2 decades, but the city did just that with the Hotel Commonwealth. In 2003 BU had to shell out $2 million to replace the façade that did not match the approved plans. https://dailyfreepress.com/2003/02/27/staff-edit-replacing-hotel-facade-wise/