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You're the first person I've ever met online that uses Compass to search for listings. How do you like the app? Before I was laid off this fall, I was part of the company that built it, and it was a constant upstream swim to try to make it more useful for people.

Fair point, as this was 3-4 years ago. I'm also sure I was a little below market in terms of rent since it was the only rental in the building, was an individual owner, and we got along fabulously with the other owners in the building. We were also very easy tenants. This listing for $6400 is...

Wow, I'm constantly amazed at the premium people pay for "new" and "amenities". The two bed is quoted as starting at $5340/month and looks absolutely tiny. The "living room" appears to be the width and depth of a loveseat. I guess for old folks like me, who prefer brownstones in historic...

I used to drive this section of SFR during my daily commute. At no point did it ever seem like two lanes in each direction were required. The moderate speed increase for impatient drivers like myself was somewhat mitigated by the relatively short length of the road. My personal opinion is...

Echoing F-Line's comments, the final version of the study for the Ray Flynn Marine park notes that reactivating the full track 61 is problematic near the Design Center, and acknowledges the more likely need for freight will be from the Massport Marine Terminal to the north. Here's a 2001 study...

According to Americans for Tax Fairness, Zuck paid $536M in taxes from 2013-2018, so it's not like he doesn't have income reported. However, that's also a tremendously small fraction of his wealth. Regardless, if we're going to tax for improvements to transportation, I'd rather it just be a...

The Esplanade playground would like a word. I've seen more kids than I can count (including my own) fall off that climbing structure. I've also seen the ropes on one of the swings entangle a child's arm and break it with an audible snap. If we can get through all that without lawsuits closing...

I think you misspelled Woburn Center. ;)

I had an office on the ground floor of One Canal Park for a few years, and while the landscape changes are nice, I would have settled for a) stopping the constant and brazen bike theft and b) some barrier between the pathways an my office window. For a, we had to dedicate space in the office...

I lived near the Hurley building for a number of years, and I'd love to have seen it when it was new, since the only form of the building I've known is the one that's falling apart, surrounded by debris, and random bits of temporary chain link fence all over (until recently, it appears) As art...

In a bit of a throwback, I did see a delivery truck back up to a loading dock on Congress Street today at 8am, near Lucky's. It totally blocked the outbound lanes and part of the inbound lanes for several minutes while goods were unloaded. It was a bit of a reminder of how things used to be in...

Life is a circle. I worked in the seaport in 2004(ish), and had an office in World Trade Center West. I remember being able to see the filming of a rooftop scene or two from The Departed from my office window because there was nothing but parking lots in between. This fall, I started a new...

Denied by STB: https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/DCMS_External_PROD/1670863978570/51395.pdf Also, an STB version of a smackdown regarding claims of interest in freight service.

I'm a daily Lowell Line rider and the 75+% of pre-COVID feels pretty right to me. Every row has people in the seats, with many doubles holding two, and all triples holding at least 2. Only a few of the triples are fully occupied. Pre-COVID, I'd estimate all of the doubles would be full and...

If only they had a human available to create the voice announcements. ;)

There are two efforts underway to impact the use of the Central Mass corridor. Protect Sudbury made an attempt to force the STB to determine the status of the corridor as having discontinued service vs. being abandoned so that they could claim that using the corridor for a trail and/or...

My new daily commute takes me past this building and I think it's one sharp looking addition to the skyline. It's impressive from all angles and a great "statement" building for State Street.

I spent many years living near the Esplanade (it's where my son learned to ride!) and biking from place to place. Even when doing a long ride, such as from downtown to Concord and back, I'm content to go at a speed dictated by conditions. In some places that means cruising in top gear, and...

While this eliminates a route that I personally used frequently (Brookline/Fenway to Back Bay via Commonwealth), I can see the logic, though I wonder how it'll perform on days when Kenmore Square is busy/crowded since Commonwealth and Boylston were the most common west to east routes in that...

I know it's apples and oranges, but as a semi-regular rider of that trail on my hybrid bike, I'd much rather see effort put into connecting it to the Freeman trail. A big part of the "fun" of the Reformatory Branch trail is that it's both unpaved and not a technically or physically challenging...