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Affordable has always been attractive.

Bank of the Mystic in downtown Medford:

Is this true? Driving my initial inquiry is my impression that NSRL feels meme-like these days. The thing that basically everyone wants and has been talked about for over a century but isn’t happening any time soon. If I had to choose between the project never happening in my lifetime or the...

Yeah. I consider myself a pretty anti-car, pro-transit and pro-safety dude. But even I usually just return to whatever speed I was at within 1min of slowing down for the hump. I’d love to see data on the extent to which speed bumps actually reduce accidents in residential areas with already low...

So I’m sure that the info exists somewhere in the thread, but 153 pages are a lot to go through. I’m wondering: is NSRL 100% reliant on the state’s ability to secure federal aid, or would it be possible for the state to fund the project itself over a very long time? In general, what is the...

This photo confirms for me a long-running suspicion I've had: that front yards are a huge waste of space. Seriously. How often do we see people utilizing the greenspace in front of their houses? If you ever host parties, or grow vegetables, or partake in any other outdoor activity around your...

Well there’s no need to be a jerk about it.

Huh. I just kind of assumed that it was all Lawrence and the author just got the city wrong. Color me actually confused now. Why are two different cities being discussed?

So someone is confused here. I don’t think it’s me.

I don't think this is fair. The park in CX is clearly built and oriented in such a way where it wants people to come from outside the immediate couple of blocks to shop, eat and enjoy. Thoreau Path in the West End is the OPPOSITE. There's no retail that borders the park and it's hard/convoluted...

If these photos and that paragraph were supposed to convince me that City Hall Plaza isn’t still an awful public space even after the renovations, it didn’t work.

The new whole-page ads are pretty annoying. It was easy-ish to close them on my phone, but now that I'm on my laptop I'm having a harder time seeing the X in the upper corner.

Me trying to figure out why this is a bad thing:

My problem is that news sites never let me pay for individual articles. They always want me to sign up for an auto-renewing, monthly memberships. It's super annoying.

Amazing that there isn’t already one in Rozzie Square.

While perhaps not related enough to the thread topic, I think the comment is a little too real to be written off as “political nonsense”. That kind of cognitive dissonance RandomWalk describes is very common in this metropolitan area.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think SFHs in and of themselves are the enemy of urbanists. You can find them in residential sectors of much larger cities than Boston such as NYC, London, Tokyo, etc. The enemy is large lot sizes, minimum sizes for front yards, back yards, and empty...

“Shoe’s on the other foot!” Or - “at least you only need to be worried in one direction”. Getting doored by parked cars is about as dangerous for bikers in traditional bike lanes as being hit by traffic on the left. Maybe worse?

Ah, I see. I thought you were talking about the Worcester Line on the commuter rail, not a Springfield train.