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"Average" is the key word here. The average, in this case, is just the total cost per mile of all busways studied (and the inclusion of the Silver Line means at least 1/2 of one of the busways studied consists of paint on the street, most likely more) divided by the number of busways studied...

No, BRT is never reasonable - especially not when you're talking about sinking investment into separating out the bus traffic. Improve bus service, sure. Calm the road, sure. But the minute you start talking about "true BRT" you've gone off the deep end. If the money's there, and the corridor...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 I beg to differ. And frankly, some road projects (like the I-Way or CT-11) needed to and need to happen, but are far too costly to be built without some sort of revenue generator attached to them.

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 Presumably either by cutting expenses somewhere else in the budget and redirecting the money into DOT, user fees on new construction (especially new road projects, most of which should be tolled going forward), or some combination of the two. Of...

There's not a single doubt in my mind that there's plenty of boardings at 128 - it's just that every single one of those boardings is south towards NY/DC (and most detraining at 128 is northbound passengers on the return trip). Amtrak should be, and would be, providing the express option - 10...

For what it's worth, Amtrak will not sell tickets from Woburn, Framingham or 128 to Boston (or vice versa). I'm not sure if that was an Amtrak decision, a state decision, or some combination of the two but I assume the likely culprit is either MBCR or MassDOT concern trolling about losing...

Yeah, maybe it's just my self-loathing flaring up, but we're not more exciting than New York. The most interesting thing about this bad, bad list is the very formulaic approach that they took.

Boston, for all its best efforts in trying, wasn't able to walk away from GLX because of outside pressure. Amtrak, and the interests of the region (especially NY/DC) that Amtrak represents, will provide that same level of pressure and Boston isn't going to be able to walk away from that either...

And that's where we disagree. An unsuccessful bid isn't going to get the city talking about and prioritizing projects that wouldn't be on the drawing board otherwise. What it will do is tie those projects to the Olympics, ensuring that they live or die based solely on the bid effort and how it...

No, I'm going there based on a short-list of things that we MUST do, or there will be no more new train service in Boston. It's a very short list, in fact, there's only two things on it: Another 7 tracks at South Station Maintenance facility at Readville Yard Not having those two things today...

As an example of a public-private partnership that actually works, consider the deal Apple struck with the CTA - where they would overhaul and maintain North/Clybourn in exchange for exclusive advertising rights there. That cost Apple about $3.8 million dollars, as I recall - $3.8 million...

There's a $10 Million fee just to enter the running, plus the cost of the promotional effort in general, and the aforementioned bribes. Is it MUCH money in the scheme of things? No, not really. But spending $5 on this is $4.98 too much, in my opinion. Even "small" sums of money like $10...

Except I think you are asking that. Whether or not the games are a good deal in the economic development department boils down to what we get as a result of them being hosted here, and how much we had to spend to bring the Olympics here. The very real possibility that nobody is entertaining is...

And, tell me why, again, we should have any interest whatsoever in spending ridiculous sums of money on open bribes even before the massive cost of actually hosting the Olympics? Hell, Dallas is probably better equipped than us in THAT department, too.

You mean the same type of cities that, with the glaring exception of LA, have populated the sum total of the list of cities that have won the Olympic bid for the US? Dallas is hardly provincial, anyway, and I like KDFW's chances of not choking to death on an influx of Olympics goers a hell of a...

You laugh, but I'm ready to declare Dallas a better choice for the 2024 Olympics then Boston. I'm dead serious. We'd be better off with Dallas 2024.

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center Shaw's is responsible for building a supermarket on air rights over the Pike out near Newtonville where no other air rights development has taken place - in fact, it's miles away from any other Pike development. What I'm trying to say here is...

For a manufactured suburban neighborhood, sure. But Route 128 is 15~20 minutes away from Boston, with great highway access, great rail access, the project to fix the 128/95/93 junction should in theory reconnect the area to the park land on the other side of the highway, and with the current...

But in all seriousness... This paragraph, and especially the part I emphasized, ought to give everyone cause for alarm.

Oh boy, do I ever have some bad news for you my friend!!