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    50 Herald Street | Chinatown / South End

    MBTA bills the Silver Line as bus rapid transit. It does have a bus lane on Washington Street. (And yes, it is a bit of a joke, but it is delineated separately from buses on the MBTA maps).
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    50 Herald Street | Chinatown / South End

    Likely the reality of financing affordable units. This is another CCBA (Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association) project (like the Tai Tung Village expansion), and they try to do 100% affordable unit projects.
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    50 Herald Street | Chinatown / South End

    The SL4/5 stop directly in front of this parcel.
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    50 Herald Street | Chinatown / South End

    Mods, if this project already has a thread, please move. I could not find it. This is part of the Shawmut/Washington Block PDA.
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    50 Herald Street | Chinatown / South End

    50 Herald Street Notice of Project Change (NPC) Comment End Date October 18 2024 Linked below for your review is an electronic copy of the Notice of Project Change (NPC) for the proposed 50 Herald Street project located in the South End which was received on September 18 2024. The filing kicks...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    That is great. Thanks.
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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    It gives the vibe of floor after floor of soul sucking cube farms.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Map doesn't show the tunnel route. Everything marked is surface or elevated. The South bound entrance along Martha Road is directly next to the south side of the Green Line portal. North Bound Exit is right next to the north side of the Green Line portal. None of that tells us much about...
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    https://www.mhp.net/about-us/data Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Center for Housing Data Unfortunately not very complete. The real data you are looking for is buried in the databases of all the individual Cities and Towns.
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    Copley Square Revamp | Back Bay

    To be a bit fair to the project team here, finding mature nursery stock trees is actually quite hard. Very few projects will pay for them, and the failure rate on transplant is very high. The Big Dig team actually planned for this (surprising, yes, but there was planning), they had contract...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Don't you have the Storrow to Big Dig connection tunnels feeding past on either side? -- the GL surfaces between the two tunnels.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Perhaps also that was the constraint of the space available. This is really sandwiched in among the highway structures.
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    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    Yes, unfortunately -- it was a big enabler before the Ukraine war. And if you think it is bad here, imagine you are FinnAir or the airport operator in Helsinki -- whose entire business model in the 2000's became polar route service from all over Europe to all over Asia, with an easy connection...
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    Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

    Thank the advent of cost-effective twin-engine long-haul aircraft, and the polar route over Russia.
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    Logan Airport Capital Projects

    But the gate letter designation helps reinforce the landside designation as well. Totally sequential number, no coding, works when you have a unified landside structure -- all centralized check in and baggage claim. That is where you see it used. The extra designation helps when you have...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Sometimes there are vested interests who have sufficient influence to cause these design changes to happen to ensure there is never a Blue Line extension beyond Charles (perhaps Back Bay interest groups). The Hyatt Hotel at Logan is an example of a power broker blockade -- it was built in the...
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    Logan Airport Capital Projects

    OK, but the flexible numbering of some of the boundary gates between terminals is operationally important. Because we have separate ground side terminals, we need to direct passengers to the right ground side terminal, and gate association helps. But we also have airlines with only one or two...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    The cost also includes a new ADA compliant station under an existing century-old road/rail structure with three or four levels of ADA compliant vertical circulation, and a new underground tail yard for trainset cycling. But sure, it is only a few 1000 ft. of tunnel :rolleyes:
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    Logan Airport Capital Projects

    No one cares about pure sequential numbering either. It is never really sequential anyway, because you have terminal breaks, Y's and T's in piers. People care about it being reasonably logical with adequate wayfinding.
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    The New Retail Thread

    You will know we have hit peak "hall" when we get either: The suburban "mega hall of halls" -- or -- Quincy Market is renamed Quincy Hall

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