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This is where some anonymous benefactor provides the $$$ to repurpose the Mystic Wharf branch for a streetcar / LRV route, right?

I think context is important here. If I grok'ed the article correctly, last year the RTAs received a 91% increase in funding thanks to $90M in "fair share" funding. The new budget reduces that funding to $75M. It's definitely a big chunk less than last year, but still a huge improvement...

I was in Laconia over the weekend and there was a fair amount of steel already up for the new bank building. While I'd love the Pleasant St. street wall to continue, I don't see that happening any time soon. I'm happy to be wrong, though. I grew up in the post-urban renewal era, so I have no...

I had to take a trip to the city because mini-FatNoah's doctor (despite all requests from us) keeps sending prescriptions to the CVS on Newbury St. I was expecting Transit Apocalypse but instead had about 100 minute door-to-door from Winchester and back. Commuter rail was on time and Green...

Born in Dorchester Grew up in NH Moved back to Greater Boston and lived in towns inside I-95 and between I-90 and Route 1 for 13 of those years Also three different stints in downtown neighborhoods totaling about 10 years

I'm now convinced that the guides/bumpers under the bridge are actually wood, though my intense scrutiny of them is probably starting to worry the other passengers on the ferry.

Is that the actual reason? Never once, as the driver of a vehicle along the E line, have I ever noticed a stop sign on a train. I just figured I was supposed to stop for a train letting people out into a traffic lane. (Googles pictures of LRVs) ...and I know I know what those look like. TIL

Now that I live in the burbs, I'm a frequent Commuter Rail rider and a very occasional subway rider. I was meeting friends in the city on Monday, so I rode from Alewife to Park Street on the Red Line. The ride clocked in at just over 31 minutes from the time the train departed. Pretty much...

I've scrutinzed those tracks so many times, and from my view it looks like there is neither the height nor the width to accommodate to revenue tracks continuing under the incline. That's my completely 100% uneducated view, anyway.

As a Lowell Line rider that occastionally attends Celtics games, this feels like a win for me. My AM commute train is 10 minutes earlier, but that makes my connection to the "once every 20" ferry tighter to save me about 10 minutes in the morning. Of course, the evening departure changes add...

Maybe someone's been checking our own vanshnookenraggen's excellent maps: https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2018/03/the-future-of-the-green-line-from-harvard-and-needham-to-the-seaport/

Looks like today is the last CSX run to Peabody, MA. Photos are circulating of a Pan Am Railways (#516, IIRC) decorated with a placard on the front noting the "Last Run to Peabody"

The wording of the ad is confusing. It's trying to say that "rail with trail" is a fantasy, but to me it reads like it's saying that the fantasy is that rail-with-trail is not feasible.

Sorry for the very late reply, but in the case of the southern half of Beacon Hill, this is almost reversing the previous trend of SF to MF conversions. In the early 2000's, my wife and I looked at an apartment on Mt. Vernon Street. It was clearly the first floor of an old mansion that had...

As a former downtown dad, I'm also a bit of a playground aficionado. My general observation is that many of them are built for extremely small children, and that it's much harder to find something with the level of "excitement" that my kid wanted once he got past first or second grade. We...

Here's more, thanks to "the Google". The area was originally owned by the Winship family and appeared to be known as Winship Gardens and/or Winship Nursery. The land was sold in the 1840's and subdivided in the 1850's. As one can see from the map and plan here, Wexford Street was originally...

Depends on where you live and who your landlord is. My second-to-last apartment in Boston raised rent 2% over 4 years (floor through walkup w/roofdeck & parking in Back Bay, but individual landlord) and my last apartment raised it 23% after one year (Longfellow Place). We ended up signing...

I've been forum member for a while now, and remember when it seemed like the number of "recently updated" threads on new development numbered a small handful. Over the past decade, that list has grown and now it's almost impossible to keep up with everything, good and bad. However, it's also...

Due to my discovery of the ferry from N. Station to the Seaport, it's been a while since I walked through the area, but I was impressed by the progress in the garage demolition. Slow and steady, I guess.