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No pictures, but the main span carrying the Medford branch over the Fitchburg line is partially (one track worth of steel) in place

Could they be putting this up without a tower crane? Seems odd that a base hasn't appeared yet

The 2017 NPC that permitted this building changed the allowed use on H from hotel to residential, but beyond that nothing.

The parcel for D3 (next to Omni down Summer) is just as large, and is still within a few hundred feet of the convention center. Has Massport made any indications of plans for it?

Five - Parcel J (the almost finished building), the 3 office bathtubs visible, and Parcel L (500 unit residential) U/C off to the right

Congress St between NEMA and Echelon is getting some kind of median redo (with a cut in the middle, presumably for the NEMA entrance)

The platform is U/C as 4 Type 7/8 cars long. But none of this will matter since the new GL cars will be 2/225’ and so the extensions to 300’ will never make sense

The surface lot directly above the tunnel may be unavoidable, but seriously? A second surface lot <100ft from SL Way?

The EIS, which came out 1 decade before the current round of bids, is highly unlikely to have relevant cost breakdowns. The bid documents do not have a cost breakdown in the (public) technical specifications, but maybe the price scoring is FOIA-able

954m base, <100m options. Not sure of internal breakdowns in the current contract, and since money is fungible any such data wouldn't mean much

NPC to office approved. WS says construction is imminent on P, and test boring rig has been working at N recently

Almost- the branch to the right will go nowhere for now. It’s pointed towards the yard, but the current designs connect the yard tracks to the Medford branch via a fly under.

Drainage and retaining wall work (plus normal rail replacement) but I don’t recall any upgrades to it being discussed. But since speeds are already limited by geometry, not much that can be done. Outside the work zone itself, they are using weekend shutdowns to install PTC

I agree that if your interaction with the buildings of Boston comes from looking at photos, more interesting photos will be better. But the vast majority of people on this forum derive concrete (hah) benefits from the substantial expansion of the urban fabric post 2012. Boston is unique and...

Out of 2,300 total spaces, roughly 1,100 will remain. All of the garage over Congress and towards Haymarket will be demolished, but the section between the u/c residential and u/c office buildings will remain (and be slightly expanded into the first floors of the office tower.

No. Rideshare is the outright majority of off-peak trips and isn’t affected by parking, and time of day data doesn’t show higher SOV utilization in the evening vs midday, when the commercial parking is still utilized.

Whatever your feelings on commercial parking are, it's not responsible for the drive modeshare. Seaport office commute modeshares are ~20% drive alone, which is pretty great. It's off-peak trips dominated by rideshare that are the major problem, which IMO is good reason to look at improving SL...

In this shot: 6 buildings built this decade, 3 of the 6 remaining empty lots with active developments. Pretty remarkable to see it finally filling in

Also news: the BPDA board memo calls for adding the Dutch pension fund (huh) as a partner in the project.

BPDA extension to April 30 2020 on agenda for Thursday...