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If the decline started in the 1920's, then a picture from that time would show the city basically in its prime. Right? What specifically about that photo looks like urban decline?

I think I agree. My hesitation is I kind of expect DCR to do a crap job without some public oversight. There are so many instances of them favoring car traffic above the safety of anyone else. Now it looks like they're building a bike lane in an really reactive way. There seems like a risk they...

Since transit to Logan has come up in other threads lately, here's (I think) the best possible solution. Assuming a world with NSRL, Logan should be connected to the commuter rail. And it should look like this: That blue line is a TBM'd tunnel, a little longer than three miles, that would...

I'm confused. What part of this looks like decay and urban flight? The city looks pretty intact to me. The West End and Scollay Square are still there. Actually, you can see a train on the Atlantic Avenue El, just above the Northern Avenue Bridge, so this must be before 1938. Squinting at the...

If the yards are split among the outer part of the lines, how big do they have to be? You mentioned storing 24-30 trains at Widett for Regional Rail. If that is split among eight lines, then 3-4 trains per mini-yard out around 128 somewhere? It seems reasonable to me that the T could, over the...

What exactly is the plan for this 12' bike path? There's no extra 12' in the existing road and sidewalk. Are they expanding the sidewalk south? Rebuilding part of the bridge over an active railway? This doesn't make sense they can just announce something like that and start next week. What's...

I'm not sure how you mean this. Are you saying this should be the T's bargaining position? ("Help us with NSRL and we'll free up some space for you.") Or are you saying NSRL automatically frees up space that Amtrak could start using?

I've had to run regular errands in Quincy all this year and the Red Line has been somewhere between miserable and non-existent. So of course, when the train is finally fixed.... this is exactly when my work is wrapped up an I don't have to go anymore. But this is great! 20 minutes faster...

That's pretty horrific seeing those all lined up like that. But is this really any different than usual? This looks like the normal background rate of death and destruction. This ought to be considered intolerable, and we should shift people away from the most dangerous possible mode of...

If you keep tunneling down east of the World Trade Center Station, is there space to go under the highway instead?

I get this sentiment, but you're kind of saying this like "the town" is some singular entity, or one person, who's now flip-flopping or being hypocritical. It's not. Those were completely different people who made that bad decision 50 years ago. People in Arlington today aren't the ones...

Yeah, but what is your compelling reasoning? Why is Boston different? You're just asserting it as a fact, and that's not very convincing.

Adding more lanes does not fix traffic. It adds more capacity for cars, which lets more people drive, which almost immediately brings back the same level of congestion. This has been known since the 1930's. This is so widely observed and so totally inevitable that researchers call this The...

All of this, and I'd add Regional Rail frequencies on the Fitchburg.

Expanding on this a bit, just from reading the news stories and press releases, I can't even really tell why they're replacing the bridges. Everyone says the bridges are old, but I can't find why that's a problem. I'd think this might shave minutes off a typical CR trip, but maybe not, and no...

I've been wanting to reading more about this exact problem. Do you (or anyone else) have suggestions where to start?

Oh yeah, totally subjective, so I don't want to dwell on my negativity if other people are enjoying it. From some of the pictures and comments posted here, I was starting to guess I was the odd one out on my opinion about highway views. That's fine. Just surprising.

For sure. I've lived near some unpleasant els, and I'm still kind of skeptical it's a good idea to build more. But there are good els, and they've gotten so much better compared to the old Orange line. They have benefits over subways. If they seem reasonable, it could be worth trying to convince...

I really like how this whole project is turning out, but I am completely baffled by people getting excited for the views of the highway. The Pike is.... ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that, but....just baffled. It reminds me of growing up in Illinois, stopping to get fast...