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The bill's sponsor represents Rochester, NH. So I'm sure he'll soon propose a bill to block the state from providing 60% of the funding needed for a new school in that town, since the vast majority of state residents won't be able to benefit from that.

While I generally am not a fan of government waste, I only wish we were in a position to have some egg on our faces resulting from a $20B passenger rail investment.

I'm not sure how much I believe this. Looking up the tracks in the direction of Charles/MGH, the southbound trains still crawled the entire way into Park Street during my commute last week. Maybe they removed it after my AM commute.

My experience on the Esplanade and other places mirrors this WITH the addition of the "I've chosen this mixed-use path to try to quality for the Tour De France" group of bicyclists.

While this is indeed a big screw-up, a more accurate headline for that article was that the DESIGNS are for trains that are too big for the tunnels. There are no trains yet. It's still a costly mistake due to the design rework required, though.

I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but yesterday I discovered the ferry from the Seaport to North Station. Price and time competitive with the subway, and certainly more pleasant in decent weather.

I think it depends where you're coming from. On the Fitchburg Line, I don't think there are really any good options for park and ride inside of Concord. AFAIK, lots are either tiny or private or non-existent. For the Lowell Line, you have Anderson, but that's about it. If you're coming from...

I was a Day 1 rider of the Silver Line (or Silverline, depending on what signs the T put up at the time) and it was literally empty outside of peak times, but very few people got off at Courthouse. Years later, I work in the area again and have been riding it and am amazed that 90% of the riders...

Key words from the Twitter complaint are "Park and Ride".

As written, the law requires a community to have at least one district that meets the 15/units and 0.5 mi criteria. Boston clearly meets this, as there is at least one district that meets the requirement.

As a regular traveler on both of those roads, I full agree that widening the FEET is totally unnecessary. I do think I-93 did need to be widened, or at least made to be more safe. For whatever reason, it always seemed to be much more "white knuckle" than the FEET. I do agree that failing to...

As a formerly local parent that laments the loss of City Sports further down the road, Dick's would have been a welcome addition, but I'd like to see it as the lower floors of a residential tower.

It's on a former gas station with Rt 9, Office Buildings, and a triple decker as immediate neighbors. What are the specific objections of the opposition? Looking a the satellite view of the location and the neighborhood a couple hundred feet to the south would seem to indicate a community...

I came across this the other day and am still reading and digesting, but it's an interesting insight into Red Line/Green Line early extension planning: http://www.wearethethinktank.org/readers/reader-vol4-appendix.pdf An interesting tidbit on page 36 mentions:

From https://sites.tufts.edu/govcenter/7-design-analyses-and-comparisons/

I found this linked in a discussion about San Francisco's office vacancy rate. https://www.commercialedge.com/blog/national-office-report/.

I walk by this three times a week on days I go to the office, and I can't tell if anything is changing or not.

Fully agree. Over the many, many years I've lived and/or worked in Boston proper, I've observed this trend. I worked in the Seaport before the boom, but when it had a couple office buildings. It was a ghost town on holidays, weekends, and evenings. Before more residential buildings started...

The maps themselves were not terribly expensive, but Street View is another story.