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Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) I guess I don't understand what this means. As others note, many urban schools "perform poorly" because they are educating a lot of children who aren't getting support at home, or are struggling with a new language because they are from another...

Re: Back Bay Garage Tower (Dartmouth and Stuart) We've got three kids in Eastie. Oldest two are in Boston public schools and youngest will start next year. Have a number of friends living in Eastie, North End, Back Bay who have made the same choice. Admittedly our long term plan is dependent...

Why is the final design or Red/Blue the next most important project? Wouldn't an actual transit service be better?

I'm only 9 years into living in East Boston, but I would think an overnight shuttle connecting downtown with Maverick as frequently as you could provide the service with one vehicle would be sufficient. Once in Maverick, anyone destined for points beyond could catch a taxi in Maverick...

Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place Would be interesting to see the view in jdrinboston's first photo next to the same view in 1999.

Washington Street is out of the picture in the foreground. The building in the bottom right corner fronts Shawmut Ave (just out of view). The big landscraper is still there--its the long building across Tremont Street from Cunard and Coventry streets.

Its been 9 years since I was in Zurich, so maybe a lot has changed. But when I was there the urban public transit network consisted of about 15 tram lines and a couple dozen bus lines. Unlike our Green Line, the tram lines didn't feed a central subway network and there was only a short subway...

Don't think there's room there. Once buses turn the corner on Tremont they'd be blocking the flow of pedestrians from Winter Street trying to get to the station (a flow that dwarfs the number of transfers between Park St and the 55 or 43). Once you get past the crosswalk, the Park Street...

What's more "reasonable"? Undercover MBTA agents manipulating the city's signal controls in the name of pre-emption, or an agency buried in debt building a two mile subway tunnel under our wealthiest in-town neighborhoods for residents who aren't asking for it? I guess people can't help...

But there are no signals at Dudley Station. There are a few near the station, but those are controlled by the city. Are you suggesting it "makes a lot of sense" for the MBTA to sneak into the city's traffic operations center and take over the signal controls?

^ It's hard for me to imagine a worse idea.

But not all old ideas are good ideas... By this argument shouldn't MTA's 2nd Ave Subway proponents been advocating for a much cheaper build along the Hudson or East River shorelines? My guess is 2nd Ave is the preferred alignment b/c its bound on either side by several blocks of dense urban...

Wouldn't you consider the Orange Line to be providing redundancy for most of this stretch? Its only a block from GC, Park, Boylston, and within a couple blocks of the others (except for Kenmore). I can also never understand why people are so high on a riverside subway line in the Back Bay...

actually sharrows. I much prefer Saratoga for biking.

Codman's already that close to a Red Line station though (Shawmut) so I'm not sure how much a new less-frequent commuter rail station will contribute to an increase in density.

I'm not sure how much this Jk's table tells us. Of the 8 cities included only 3 are really peers (NY, Chi, SF). From 1960 to the present we appear to be on par with those three (28 to 32% of the housing stock in these four cities was built after 1960). While this is lower than the four other...

Another reason to never trust municipal population figures. Based on the above stats, if Plymouth achieved Lexington-levels of population density its population would surpass 250,000. It would be by far the second largest city in New England. In the vast stretches of North America north and...

But this doesn't make any sense. The feds require all transit systems to provide "on-demand ADA paratransit" within 3/4 of any local bus route or rapid transit line. If MTA wants to reduce paratransit ridership, it would make more sense to make their route structure as compact as possible...

Doesn't it teach us that gondolas are good options in locations where dramatic changes in elevation or large bodies of water separate activity centers that aren't already well connected by transit or walking? In Boston, the inner harbor and a few residential hills a couple miles from downtown...

This sounds a little “Crazy Transit Pitches” worthy. In addition to cozzyd’s acknowledgement of the awkwardness of having this discussion in light of the T’s current financial state, the focus on adding new bus services in middle or upper class neighborhoods north of the Charles that already...