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Hoople, Please help me out here, my arithmetic has proven flawed at times . . . You say that these wind turbine structures proposed for the Cape Wind project are 460' tall. Assuming you are correct with the height, and also assuming that the well-documented height of the Pru' is accurate...

Ron, southworst is like riding on a bus that happens to fly. I am not discounting the success it enjoyed for many years (profitability-wise), nor can I say that many of the elements in its business model are not worthy of emulation by others in the industry. I am saying that as a very frequent...

As a frequent flyer (~250 flights/year out of Logan) for the last decade, I would sooner crawl to a destination than fly on southworst. That said, I welcome them to Logan as it may contribute to create even lower prices on the other carriers.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail I think the much larger part of the current economic situation we are in is a result of absurd lending practices for mortgages than the government keeping a low tax on gasoline. Yes, keeping gas taxes (and, consequently, the price at the pump for the...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Van, I can appreciate the logic that a substantial tax on gasoline that makes the purchase of it so expensive that it becomes cost-prohibitive for most to live far afield from where they work could very well contribute to the strangulation suburban...

Re: Russia Wharf Pardon my ignorance . . . It appears (from the adjacent sidewalks and from these pictures) that this 'central' concrete work is sprouting up a bit faster than normal. By this I mean that there seems to be a substantial footprint of the building that has not risen above...

I second the motion, Toby! A tasteful casino at this site would be a goldmine.

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking garage. I like it a lot more than I dislike it. It would be striking and I am sure that with the finer details of the street level appropriately worked out (big leap of faith there, I suppose) it would be a great addition to the city.

Re: South Station Tower - Full Steam Ahead! Wow. That is [was] nice. And would have made on heck of an entrance to a well-designed tower behind/above it. Maybe 100 years from now people will look back at the precast junk that seems to dominate the construction landscape of late and be...

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking garage. Mumbles is an assclown. What is the best guess as to when he will no longer be our beloved mayor?

Re: South Station Tower - Full Steam Ahead! Type001, I don't mean to be the guy jumping on the pile here, but you are incorrect in your staunch assertion that mainline commercial airliners fly over the financial district at a height of 950-1000'. I take off from Logan about 100 times per...

Re: Jimmy's Harborside Development That's pretty nice. I presume the first level or two are for the restaurant, while the upper two levels are the offices. Does anyone know if the small dock behind this new structure is intended for a sort of 'sail-through' where boaters could call in an order...

Re: W Hotel Small world, castevens. My grandparents have a house on Homer Ave and my family and I spent weekends in the summer down there growing up.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail ^Agreed. A train pummels a bus, anyday.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Busses, especially public transit busses, are not typically a very enjoyable ride. Having ridden a lot of trains (commuter and amtrak) and more busses than I would have liked, I cannot fathom how one can make the argument that these two forms of...

Re: Filene's Lurker, My sentiments exactly. Well-stated.

Both suck. I did time in bitchlanta from 1992-1996 (was temporarily released during the Olympics and got the hell out of dodge for about 3 months spanning the games themselves and equal time on either side--but was there for the vast majority of the time leading up to the Summer Games in...

bitchlanta did not (and does not) have any appreciable international recognition. I am not convinced Logan could not handle the air traffic associated with an Olympics. Not everyone would arrive via air (domestically and from Canada, in particular), and those traveling by air would not all...

Scott, Let's take an objective look at the bigger picture. Name-calling and stereotyping is seldom productive to intelligent debate. In our nation's past (post-Civil War to WWII timeframe), the rise of organized labor played a prominent and intricate role in bringing about improvements in the...

Looks like they had to add a couple more segments to the tower crane to finish this off.