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Revere Beach Parkway is plenty wide and could work as part of a ring (though that's not typically the chosen path). How wide a street do you think you'd need? Just as a jumping off point, the new Lechmere is on a relatively nice, quiet viaduct. Cambridge Crossing was willing to put up buildings...

Agreed. What that really means is this block badly needs a real re-design. It's incredibly wide, so there's space for a bike lane. The city just needs to protect it, maybe by expanding the sidewalk and putting the bikes raised up there. The space for cars was so wide that one whole lane got...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20transit Buses are a part of "mass transit." If you want to argue the Silver Line isn't "rapid transit," fine, I probably agree, whatever. You brought this up because you were surprised this place will have no parking. I think that's totally...

OpenStreetMap maybe shows this better https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.366458/-71.063151 You can see the Green yard under North Station, which is entirely south of the all the underground highway ramps. The Green portal does come up between the two highway ramps, but that's because it...

That looks great. I totally agree we can and should have more public transit for recreation. A few scattered thoughts: I've been in the Blue Hills quite a few times where car traffic even in the park is bad, especially around Houghton's Pond. There are a lot of cars; drivers slow down looking...

Again, what part of your example does anything to fix the housing shortage? The shortage is near ubiquitous. Pittsfield also has a housing shortage. It has the same root problem: little or no new development being built. It has the same consequences: house prices in the Pittsfield have gone up...

For someone (me) who knows nothing about this, how can you tell? In that last picture I can see a vertical seam in the bricks below the right windows. I would have assumed that's where two panels come together.

Oh, that bill passed the House and Senate. Healey signed it into law last week, with surprisingly little fanfare. https://www.boston.com/food/food-news/2024/09/13/boston-liquor-licenses-healey-signature/ So, 225 new licenses over the next three years. If I'm reading this correctly, 95 of those...

Regardless the other merits of this proposal, I'm at a loss how this would fix anything to do with the housing crisis. There is a housing shortage. That's true in the city, in the suburbs, across the state, and basically nation-wide at this point. There is already a huge demand for more people...

There's new Newton Corner working group that met the first time this year, and someone at least mentioned looking into a Newton Corner station (page 8). And if you're interested, TransitMatters mentioned it as a good possibility in their report on upgrading the Worcester line. But pretty...

If this looks like make-believe then, again, what do you think Keolis is doing here? I do actually trust Keolis knows what trains are on the market, or likely available in the next four years. Keolis came to the MBTA with this plan, bid on it, and signed a ~$50M contract to procure BEMUs. If...

I'm also confused where Keolis will get the trains from. However, Keolis is saying they can do it. Keolis came up with this plan, bid on it, set dates and prices, and signed a contract saying they'll get BEMUs by 2028. It really sounds like they have a plan. I'm willing to hear people's theories...

There's a low quality scan on Scribd. It doesn't look like it contains the answer I was looking for, but still interesting to skim through. BTW, I couldn't find a copy straight away, so I contacted a the Boston Public Library. I always want to give props to wonderful librarians who are eager to...

Just to add a bit to what @TheRatmeister said, the requirements for traffic lights is going to depend on traffic volumes and space. You'd need many more bikes than cars (by orders of magnitude) in the same amount of space for traffic lights to start making sense. If you turned all of Boston's...

Very broadly, I agree. But a lot of the cost blowouts on the projects you mention still come back to the political problems @StreetsblogMASS is mentioning, especially decades of underinvestment in the T. (I really recommend the Transit Costs Project for detailed analysis.) Underinvestment led to...

That whole summary is pretty spot on. One small thing, all the new licenses in the latest version of the proposed legislation are non-transferable. I think you're right that there were some new transferable licenses proposed this year, but those have fortunately been cut from the latest draft...

This was a neat idea, but it's looking like you might have to start us off. Did you figure out any reasonable (..."reasonable"...) plan? The little bit I was considering it, it kept looking like the result would be bad, or at least wildly wasteful, rapid transit system. Like, I could really...

Wait, what's the deal with Castle Street Junction? What did that used to connect? When was that taken down?

Since the heat waves have passed, I've been out in the Esplanade and on the Charles more lately. Just a thought, but part of the reason a ferry service wouldn't work well on the Charles is that Boston and Cambridge are kind of cut off from the water by Storrow and Memorial Drives. The roads have...

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you thinking of some specific problem spot or incident? Like I said, there is a nearly identical bike/pedestrian underpass on this exact path, on the very next bridge upriver. I bike through fairly regularly. It hasn't become a homeless encampment...