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Yes, that is what I was referring to... Going back to the original point. Despite apparently good intentions, the multiuse path is already encroaching on a two track right of way. As you can plainly see here: https://goo.gl/maps/1S3eCnqYDnL2 The MBTA needs to actually go out there and...

The narrow north edge still feels dark in the shadow, but otherwise I think the gradation works well.

How does that work property tax wise? I mean if the land is still owned by the government it isn't taxed, but would the commercial/office/residential buildings be taxed?

Hoping that the tallest building at old Volpe is going to provide a bit of a crown for Kendall Square in 5 to 7 years.

Thanks for that link. Looks like it has been discussed, but without a solid plan yet to reserve (create?) a two track right of way. From the document: Seems the Grand Junction bike path and MIT's new Schwarzman College of Computing new building there are opportunities to make sure that the...

Pricing should be used to help manage demand of what is a limited and costly shared resource. Induced demand can lead to transit congestion every bit as much as it can with roads. Although if you can get event sponsors to pay for free fares at certain stops and stations at certain times that...

The public voted to overturn what I thought was a fairly good law that did link the gas tax to inflation. I have no doubt that will be more costly in the end as the state uses borrowing to smooth out the periods between gas tax increases which must eventually get raised along with inflation...

This, Google and Volpe redevelopment are going to keep things evolving and moving forward in Kendall for the next ten years at least. Going to be cool to see.

A 6% increase over 3 years is just a basic inflation/cost of living increase. If anything they should just do it every year, but it costs more in signage and printing costs. Although I recognize that transit is often the only option for lower income people, the mbta is a transportation system...

The narrow stretch between and under the buildings through MIT campus looked very tight to me. It would just be good to see plans with a non-landscaped right of way for the rail that has room for two tracks specified the whole way through. Better to see a plan to physically set aside the...

That is good to hear... because all their renders up until now appeared to be just "existing rail" without necessarily enough room for two tracks plus greenway. I would hope all their future renders and actual plans show the two tracks that meet the clearance requirements. It would be a real...

Re: New us masterplanned city. Ah... but it isn't about poor and rich. It is about loyal, disloyal and suspect. There will be poor loyal people that will be allowed to live near the rich loyal subjects. Of course, else who would do all the work? The disloyal poor or suspect poor will be...

Re: New us masterplanned city. The compromise was to demolish wide swaths of existing urban areas that were considered "blighted". Thus new planned cities within cities. West End style.... which only took half a century to just about recover from the idiocy. Or the seemingly deliberate...

Re: New us masterplanned city. Basically, the new Egyptian city is for the "elect" chosen by the regime to escape Cairo, the new capital is for the rulers to get the hell out of Cairo so they don't get overthrown again by a popular uprising, and Cairo is for everyone else and a few of those...

Exactly! This. Although it seems like there is a well organized effort and competing vision to turn the Grand Junction into a bike path instead of (rather than in addition to) two tracks of rail. I like bike paths and some of the rail to trails outside the city on defunct rail lines that sat...

To the detriment of a lot of other transit and road infrastructure. Yes the greenway is better than the central artery was before... Was it worth the money? Not when there is no money left for other vital projects.

Or just suck it up and deal with the fact you don't need to spend hundreds of millions extra to pretty up a few hundred feet of sidewalk. There are literally hundreds of places around Boston that have stretches that look ten times worse than that render because people couldn't be bothered to...

It can see it. Seaside shopping, restaurants and bars... very appealing if done right. Right on transit and I93 close by. Like an Assembly Row on the South side of the city. Housing of course too.

Yes, they should definitely raise the area at least 3 to 6 feet to try and get ahead of sea level rise and mitigate storm flooding. Easier to do it now than to try and do it after there are a dozen mid rise buildings.

Yes, I am familiar with at least some of the requirements, some more than others. Standoff perimeter is really the issue. 50 feet If an alley behind a row of low rises was behind the security perimeter then you could accomplish the same. So 50 feet between buildings. Looks like they have...