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Re: Water Yeah agreed, at least for the MWRA district. There will continue to be periods of stress for places (the cape and north shore in particular) that are not part of it - but in the very long run there's even capacity to connect the Salem area to MWRA if necessary. And yes in the big...

Look closely and you'll see that the city is crisscrossed by a web of rights of way, commonly called highways, streets, and roads. There would have to be a whole heckuva lot of demand for travel to max out the rail ROWs at full geometric capacity, but if that ever happened you'd have a very...

Re: Official City Hall Plaza Proposals ^ Yeah that explanation works for me too. I've been to a lot of Xmas markets in a lot of places, and 100% agree that without gluwein and comfort food (and a well designed sense of place) it was just a bunch of craft kiosks

Re: Official City Hall Plaza Proposals Yikes. Tl;dr of the globe article: - Foot traffic was lower than expected - So the company hired by Delaware North to run the event (Called Boston Winter LLC) didn't make as much money as they thought they would, nor did most of the vendors who signed...

Re: Water Yes, clearly there is a near-term flooding risk. However, I feel compelled to point out that over a longer term periods of drought are in fact as much of a risk as periods flooding, and yo-yoing between the two is a very likely pattern (and the experience of the last several years...

i flew jfk-accra sometime around 2008 or 2009 i think

I'm going to guess that is likely the case today, yes. Keep in mind that the nearest upstream offramp, at Bennington St., is also a special kind of clustercluck - so anyone trying to skip the que has to pay a meaningful time tax before they even get close to the tunnel. And that's probably...

Re: North-South Rail Link FYI this was covered in great detail, with satellite imagery etc, a year or two ago elsewhere in the board (and also this convo should probably be relocated there instead of the nsrl thread)

Yeah and keep in mind there's just a single lane of 1A South feeding this, plus two lanes from the airport.

Yeah and there's a very intense fish eye lens effect happening too.

Re: North-South Rail Link Got it. So - given that full transit replacement probably means GLX to need junction or Hersey, and also OLX through roslindale out to vfw parkway....is there a scenario where for some (significant) period of time we'd see the GLX happen, and then have a commuter rail...

Nope. We're talking about the Ruggles, BB, South Station stretch. Space is at a premium.

^ Exactly. I pulled a couple years of commuting through there too. It used to work because 1A drivers and merging drivers were on more or less equal footing. That's going to have to be restored, somehow. I think the best option might be taking 1A traffic down to a single lane, and giving the...

So...10 years later, I think this is finally all done? Drove the Weston-Westwood stretch a couple times over the long holiday and ... it works. Can we do Woburn, Wakefield Lynfield & Peabody now please?

Looks like removing the toll booths in Eastie has indeed created more problems than it solved. https://www.universalhub.com/2018/neighborhood-gridlock-sumner-tunnel-changes-leave

I think he was just saying he liked to get hammered at bars with no TVs in them...

Well ... insofar as its a machine for mass-producing MBAs, you're not far off....

I like that you can see the effect of Big Dig not only in that the highway is now underground, but also in that downtown is now *so* much denser than it was in 1982. (And yes I also recognize that you can see the effect of the highways in the fact that it is also much less dense than it was in...

Talk? Heck once this b-c project is done, you'll have close to a full bus circuit on the arrivals level, and something substantial on the departures level too. The trick is that it's not fully separated from mixedtraffic - and it probably doesn't need to be. Because non-bus traffic doesn't...

Re: North-South Rail Link Selling nsrl as 'lets build a tunnel to make it more convenient to get from North station to South station by train' is like selling the big dig by saying 'lets build a huge cable stayed bridge over the Charles to make it more convenient to get from Somerville to the...