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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    From the Seaport Blvd. Bridge last night:
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    It's also a lot easier on the wayward boat. I'll take a closer look next time I ride through on the ferry. They look like timber to me, but now I'm having my doubts.
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    Winchester Small Developments

    I'm sure these are the same people that voted down the previous Civco proposal next to the Commuter rail station. This is the view they're talking about...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Tell me you have an anti-rail bias without telling me you have an anti-rail bias. We all know that railroads, and specifically their local passenger operations, weren't invented until the 1950's. We also know that the demographics of the working classes has changed since then, and that...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I can't read the article, as someone that commuted from Beacon Hill to Watertown Square, I would have loved a water shuttle for that route vs. getting hung up in traffic on one of the various bus routes. Currently, I've eliminated the subway from the North Station to seaport leg of my commute...
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    Commuters Ditched Public Transit for Work From Home. Now There’s a Crisis.

    For me? Schools, family, and human rights. I can't speak for anyone else, though. Totally agree on this. When I was downtown, most of the "rich folk" I knew simply walked to work. If we want congestion pricing, we need to make sure that significantly improved transportation options are...
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    Commuters Ditched Public Transit for Work From Home. Now There’s a Crisis.

    Yeah, I didn't know about that situation until recently. With the projected timeline to re-open, they might as well throw in a Blue Line extension too.
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    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

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    Commuters Ditched Public Transit for Work From Home. Now There’s a Crisis.

    It's the transit corollary to "the beatings will continue until morale improves". i.e. Service will be cut until revenue improves. Semi-related, I'll be curious to see what, if any, effect on ridership the $2.40 fares for Newburyport/Rockport CR will have during the Sumner closures.
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    Roads and Highways General Development Thread

    Tell me your road planner plays Cities: Skylines without telling me the play Cities: Skylines.
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    Medford Life Science Park | 278-326 Mystic Ave | Medford

    For drivers coming from north of town, it's a far better commute than to the Seaport or Kendall Square, and probably a toss-up for those going to Waltham. The 95 bus appears to be the only transit in the immediate vicinity, and that doesn't connect to any other routes between Medford Square and...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

    It's also a single-seat ride and, speaking as someone who just worked a ferry into their commute (N. Station to Seaport), it's a far more pleasant ride.
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    Commuter Rail to New Hampshire?

    Throw in a stop to get people to Waterville Valley and shuttles to Loon, Cannon, and Bretton Woods, and we're on to something.
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    Commuter Rail to New Hampshire?

    I'll add: 4) $$$ + NH == Massive Friction
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    This was my thought as well. If the goal is to save lives, it seems like $100M could save a lot more lives used in any number of other ways. It boils down to 20-25 incidents out of 640 million rides, and only a fraction of those result in death.
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    General Infrastructure

    This is my daily commute, and it doesn't feel nearly as dire to me as the article makes it sound. It is annoying to have to go around the construction when I could just follow Congress street all the way to my office, but the only people dodging cars are those that insist on crossing mid-block...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Totally agree. Such stadiums should be in less dense regions due to their size and need to support such things as tailgating. There definitely should be good transit options, too, though.
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    Biking in Boston

    What is the rational for being against this? Do 2 lane roads in dense urban areas, complete with cars parking and making turns, really outperform single-lane travel roads with appropriate turn lanes? Do businesses really get more customers when it's difficult for pedestrians to safely cross...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Obviously, but then that begs the question of why trains would stop at location where no one is getting on or off. According to the T, this will "improve the passenger experience" though I'm not sure how no longer having to be visible on the platform or having to inform the conductor of your...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    What's the practical impact of changing a stop from a flag stop to a full time stop?

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