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Hey - Merry Christmas to The Rifleman and Whighlander, and to the rest of y'all ... Happy Holidays!

At the risk of picking nits...isn't there something like a ceiling (pardon the pun)on tunnel waterproofing costs? I know its high (i.e. expensive to do it in a place like here) but its not unlimited, right? Like, if you're digging in wet sloppy muck, you have to pay for high performance...

If you really want to impress me, route this to Worcester via GJ with a stop in Kendall...

Very interesting. Presumably this would at least in part be about managing space at North Station? The tracks already exist. Wonder if it would also include adding a platform at Sullivan Sq to enable OL transfers?

I'm sticking with my shenanigans call. Those shadows are rendered as being more or less perpendicular to congress st. That means they're more north than east. The most charitable scenario I'll concede too is that they rendered this at 20 minutes after sunrise on the summer solstice (note the...

Lol. As far as I can tell this deck has a northern exposure. The shadows are going the wrong way. In fact, that pool and all those sleek lounge chairs are going to be in the shadows almost all the time.

I was just trying to sort out whether your criticism was about the physical form or about the vitalitybof the retail ecosystem. I picked Harvard as a familiar example of great physical form, but problematic vitality (I recognize that harbard square is still great, no need to argue that further)...

Yeah as well both know the only thing worse than a thin layer of black ice is a thin layer of black ice with a light coating of cold, dry snowflakes on top of it...

Yeah this is just not accurate at all. Definitely room to enhance the 'urban form' ... but also a lot of independently owned restaurants, delis, pubs, and a cigar room, among other things. Actually yeah can't tell if youre unimpressed by the retail mix or by the built environment? You'd...

Interesting. Perhaps simpler just to put tolls on 93 & 128 though (and/or some form of 'congestion charge / parking charge' downtown?

Re: Regional Rapid Transit Plan (including the North-South Rail Link) Ok so i'm reading the actual report now and it's....a joke.

Re: North-South Rail Link One additional point I feel compelled to make: It may be true that places like Belmont, Winchester and Concord aren't likely to go for dense multi-story apartments and condos in walking distance to regional rapid transit stations. However... There's a whole...

If there's enough room for on street parking, there's enough room for a separated trolley ROW...

Re: North-South Rail Link Well - a big part of what changes is that we're no longer talking about commuter rail ridership, because we're no longer talking about commuter rail service. The scenario F-Line is describing is essentially several legs of rapid transit extension to 128 (and beyond)...

Re: North-South Rail Link let me take a crack at this: The purpose of NS at the surface in a world where 17 trains per hour go through the tunnel would be....to allow the northside system to handle more than 17 trains per hour. Consider that there are 4 branches on the north side - (or 5 if...

Re: North-South Rail Link Look I'm as alarmed as anyone by the sea level rise scenarios, but if your assumption is that it's not going to be possible to have underground infrastructure near the ocean then the question is 'where do we build the harbor closure dike?' not 'which nsrl alignment...

Re: North-South Rail Link Reposting these from the summer: [/url] [/url]

^ Yeah the trick though is that the the toll booths also slowed people down so that a car merging from the street - typically accelerating from a stop while turning sharply - could safely merge with the highway traffic. Even without the stoplight, a lot of the street traffic is going to have...

Its just really bad value for money. You can get much more capacity for much less money with a bus lane. And/or by increasing throughput in the Silver Line tunnel I mean for fucks sake it's proposed to go over perhaps the widest, straightest street in the entirety of downtown Boston. And its...

That's some very archboston logic right there - well stated. (i.e. ordinary logic would say that 60ft is a larger percentage of a smallerbuilding - so the shorter it was to begin with the greater the loss. AB logic says show me the supertall).