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For me "Downtown" equals everything north of the Pike, east of Arlington Street, west of the Channel and Harbor, and south of the Charles River. Basically, the original settlement of Boston with the edges filled out. I never think of Back Bay or South End as downtown (although the former would...

I think the reality is there just isn't a high level of bus ridership in Somerville when compared to the other parts of the system served by Key Bus Routes. You could make the same argument about the 15, 22, 23 and 28 getting a ton of riders collectively but being spread out across multiple...

Re: One Greenway - Chinatown Parcel 24 Enter South Station Connector, Boston, MA on Google maps

Huh? There's been a station in Dudley for a couple of years--I've used it dozens of times. It was originally on Warren on the block between the bus station and the Ferdinand. Lately its been in front of the old police station on Dudley Street. Just checked the map and its gone though...but...

I'm just saying too many parents use strollers--obviously if you have a disabled parent, or a grandmother babysitting for the day, there can be exceptions. With my kids riding the train every day from a young age, they didn't seem phased by rush hour subway travel by the age of three. And...

I put in 5 years recently commuting with my various infants on the subway to downtown daycare during rush hour. More parents should absolutely be carrying their young ones during rush hour commutes. Most of the time, someone would give up their seat (although middle aged women would do so much...

Right on. Other than a possible exception for the Blue Line (where the Maverick to Aquarium link is 3 minutes by train and close to 30 very uncomfortable minutes by bike). Bikes can help us relieve congestion on crowded subways as the city becomes safer to cycle around. But a bike taking up...

I always assumed it was just navigating around the gaps between the big hills in Chelsea and Everett (Powderhorn, Washington, and Fennos).

Another advantage that Eastie and Chelsea may have (in addition to proximity to the core) is their density. Eastie (at least between Wood Island and Maverick) and Chelsea (south of Route 16) have population densities that are only found in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, North End, Southie, Charlestown...

I think the biggest problem that Roxbury has is that after you cross Mass Ave you basically have a 1/2 mile consisting of public housing, vacant lots, active industry and Melnea Cass Boulevard. If the gap between Dudley Square/Fort Hill/Mount Pleasant was still filled in with brick row houses...

Urbanized area is definitely the best comparison of city size. The federal definition is a little low density at the fringes though (I think its >1000 ppl/sq mi). A better definition of "urbanized" would be contiguous areas with >5,000 ppl/sq mi, which is roughly what you need to support...

Re: Congress Street Garage Development European systems enjoy a level of government financial support that American systems don't. Given that reality I think comparisons with other US systems are the only reasonable ones we can make. And by most measures, the MBTA ranks higher on the list of...

Re: Congress Street Garage Development Right--the T's rapid transit ridership is surpassed by only NY (an urban area 10x larger), Chi (3x larger) and DC (a hybrid commuter rail system that stretches deep into suburbia). Only the NY system has more riders per mile. Boston is punching well...

The whole city size/population discussion would probably play out a lot differently had NYC not consolidated in 1898. Would there be a lot of hand-wringing in NYC today that the once might city had fallen to 5th in popultion, and was likely to be surpassed by San Diego, San Antonio, Dallas and...

I agree SF feels like and is a bigger city than Boston. But municipal boundaries come into play even with the above comparison. SF's 46 square miles encompass most of the metro area's densest 46 sq miles. Even the areas in the southern hoods of SF that you see from BART coming from SFO are as...

You could just be making a simple observation, but if this is a comparison that is meant to make Boston look bad, couldn't we point to NY urban area having 10X the population and already missing a full year to delays? There's a lot of reasons to be envious of NY, but until they are well over a...

Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) School district is funded largely by property taxes. Boston is fine in this regard. Maybe not smaller cities like Lawrence. Its OK if people feel more comfortable sending their kids to schools where the other kids are just like them. Its...

Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) I understand the perspective and its still the dominant one. But I don't buy that its a school quality issue--its a school demographics issue. If you were still in Beacon Hill, and BPS had a student body that mirrored Wellesley's demographics...

Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) But what does "improving schools" mean? If you transport the student population from a BPS school to Wellesley, do you really think you'd see any measurable improvement in their performance? There are a lot of things that could be done to...

Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) My bad. I thought this board was for people who were big believers in city development and city living. Maybe some are more interested in the theory of city living. Sorry to hear about your sister's kid's experience. I heard about a kid who...