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When this happens in the future, the MBTA will need portable exit gates so people evacuating the trains can have their passes properly scanned.

These situations happen in quite a few places. My personal take is that they're not wide enough to "officially" be marked as two lanes, but operate more efficiently as two lane roads, so the powers that be just let it slide.

My crazy version of this extends the western end to Riverside along the CR tracks and eliminating the CR stops in that section. I doubt the ROW supports that, hence crazy. Slightly less crazy is connecting the eastern end to both Lechmere AND Sullivan. That's packing a lot into one space, but...

I'm not sure that this is a bad thing. Having ridden buses into and out of Alewife to the NW suburbs, the final 0.5 miles into/and out of the station can take over 30 minutes. When I lived in East Arlington, taking the 77 to/from Porter was generally much faster than the 350 or 79 to Alewife...

So many interesting things in this proposal. Way too much to comprehend, even, so I like to look at it through the lens of my commutes of the past 20+ years, most of which were done without a car. Downtown (55) I'm one of those brave souls that boarded the 55 bus between Hynes and Park Street...

The Hall itself is open to 11, but nearly everything in it closes well before then.

Does anyone know why the eateries in the "Hub Hall" close so early? The only thing open after 9:50 or so seems to be Mike's Pastry and the wine bar. As a regular attendee of Celtics games who often has to wait for a train home, I'd love to be able to grab something to eat after a game, but all...

In the 1946 USGS top map, you can see the spur and small yard.

There's no hard deadline for G&W to be ready by 6/1. ST will operate the line until G&W is ready.

As a former downtown resident, I don't find driving downtown to be particularly stressful. You need a mental map of where you're going and need to just accept that for many parts of the day, you're probably going to be sitting in traffic. You gotta just go with it. That said, I much prefer...

Totally agree. What's especially interesting about many areas of Boston such as the North End, Newbury Street, Charles Street, etc. is that the density of humans on the sidewalk is such that adding diners doesn't substantially increase the number or overall density of people on the sidewalk...

Even though I'm a frequent Storrow Drive user, both as a resident of the suburbs AND as a resident of three different downtown neighborhoods, I'm all for making it a low speed parkway/surface boulevard. That said, for those exiting the city, one key benefit of Storrow Drive is that it is often...

It doesn't answer your question, but does discuss the topic a little bit: https://www.concreteconstruction.net/how-to/concrete-production-precast/its-about-time_o

I submit that a shuttle makes so much sense that is, in fact, "crazy". However, I'll amend it to say that it should be a full Trackless BRT solution.

As a frequent Amtrak rider who's lived north of town and in Back Bay, I've basically found the stations to be roughly interchangeable. When I was convenient to the Red Line, South Station was easier and when I was convenient to the Orange Line, Back Bay was easier. Finally, when I lived in...

I'm having trouble picturing this. Are you referring to the path that passed the former tennis courts and garage, or something else?

I have a "hybrid" bike that's basically only good on streets or packed dirt/stone dust and it does ok on that path, though there are stretches with sand and roots that make it a bit more challenging. I used to live in the Longfellow Towers and my occasional "long ride" would be from there to...

While I agree that extending the path is the right thing, the unpaved Reformatory Branch is much more "fun" for me to ride since it's generally much less crowded than the paved portion of the trail.

I experienced this directly in high school when a property tax revolt led to a 2 year regime of very limited funding for sports and extracurricular activities. There was no money to travel and private donors and volunteers at least made it possible to to still have some of those things. I do...

I had a front-row seat to that building going up. The construction elevator was amazingly loud for some reason. I can vividly remember the sound of that thing going up and down.