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There's a very old German restaurant/pub called the Student Prince on Fort Street (think of a more crowded version of Jacob Wirth's that's still true to its roots). Just around the corner is a very intimidating looking bar built into the base of the bridge that carries Amtrak trains over Main...

Re: Russia Wharf You're right. Here's another example supporting the opposite point of view: Despite being its largest city, Boston has only the 145th largest skyline in New England.

Re: Russia Wharf ^ Either you or GMACK must be wrong. Only 6 US cities have more 31+ story buildings than Boston. NYC, Chicago and Miami are well ahead, and SF, Houston and LA only have between 3 to 8 more buildings above this height than Boston. 5 of these 6 cities are also larger than Boston...

Re: Border Street Project, East Boston Waterfront I share everyone's lack of excitement with this design. However, in its defense I would say it looks like there is an archway that maintains views to the harbor aligned with Decatur Street. The fact that the building creates a wall-effect on...

Second point is both debatable, and not applicable (hard to imagine demand for service in this corridor requiring more than 40 foot buses). Fourth point is valid, although I hardly think a bus route running alongside a mile long park that is widely criticized for disrupting the urban fabric will...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Was never suggesting that bus service in this corridor could ever provide the same level of service as rail (at least at anything approaching a reasonable cost). Only responding to one of the points in the earlier post that people won't use the bus even...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Why? It's not. But some may argue that spending this much money on commuter rail isn't money well spent either, given the small number of riders served when compared to urban projects in Greater Boston. Any expenditure of this amount in Boston would...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Is the suggestion that people won't ride a bus even if it has the same frequency, travel time, fare, and reliability as rail? That's weird, and I don't think we should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to satisfy those people's mode fetish--I...

Out of curiosity, how do you think these numbers might change if passengers could board the 39 bus in East Cambridge, the West End, Bulfinch Triangle, Government Center, Downtown Crossing, and the Theatre District before reaching its current point of origin in Copley? And what if that 39 bus...

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Restricting the use of Runway 27 for departures would signficantly reduce the capacity of Logan Airport. Is having a 1000 footer or taller buildings in the Seaport district important enough to reduce the airport's capacity? The obvious...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 This is a great project and I hope it happens. That being said, people seem to be overstating the benefits to Medford residents. Those in the vicinity of this section of Boston Ave already have 8 buses/hour during the peak (or one every 7.5 minutes on...

Had no idea that parking lot with the gas station at the corner of Friend and Merrimac has been around since before the artery. Could this be the longest running vacant lot in downtown Boston?

^^ Westwood has a couple advantages over this site. The first being there is already a transit station there. As I've noted in other posts, the concept of the state building new infill stations to facilitate TOD development makes no sense given the number of opportunities which exist to build...

Let's not get too carried away folks. This site may be in Boston, but it's the same distance from downtown as 1950s era subdivisions in Saugus, and there are two existing stations downstream on this line that are littered with vacant lots. If there is demand for TOD, let's see it happen there first.

I wouldn't be so sure that's the case anymore. The new parkside entrance makes Airport Station the closest subway station for everyone living on Eagle Hill or the flats between Day Square and the Sumner Tunnel portal. That combined with competition from the Silver Line has definitely shifted the...

A wise approach to be sure. But I guess I'm surprised he always seems so critical of local and state governments for not having the vision to implement fantasy transit projects with marginal benefits (such as light rail along the greenway). After all, they're only responding to their "clients"...

If your only argument for using the Narrow Gauge route is to serve Oak Island and Point of Pines, I don't think you'll get very far with the mayor. There are maybe 250 homes in Oak Island and another 400 in Point of Pines. In both cases there is almost no room for additional development due to...

I don't think you can consider the BART SFO connection as not requiring a shuttle, when it's anywhere from a 10 to 20 minute walk from any terminal other than the international terminal. AirTrain provides good connections, but it's still a shuttle service. And once you're at the BART station the...

I wonder how many more people would be calling for improved MBTA service to Logan if we didn't already have the fastest, most frequent, versatile (two routes to choose from), and cheapest CBD-airport transit connection in North America.

You'd have to fill in part of the harbor between the airport and Winthrop in order to shift runway 9/27 counterclockwise. And in order to miss the SBW and Gateway, you'd have to shift it far enough that it would be too similiar to the direction of runway 4/22 which would significantly reduce the...