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I also just wanted to add that even some of the less-desirable neighborhoods in Manchester are full of old buildings that can easily be restored and renovated. Obviously, the trick is getting people with the means to restore and upgrade them, either as owner-occupants or income properties (or in...

The point about the run-down neighborhoods in Manchester being right around the downtown is key. To an outsider--even to someone from surrounding towns--I bet this often leads to the misconception that all of Manchester is a dump outside of Elm Street and the Millyard. You can read it in...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 It does do a better job of differentiating lines, and like HenryAlan, I'd kind of like to see the T accurately count the number of lines it has--plenty of transit systems use a single central artery (subway or otherwise) for lines that fan out as they...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 I agree. As with Shepard, there are some things I would tweak in the design, but I think it's pretty intuitive and easy to understand. Perhaps overly complicated with the shading of green and marking the connections on either side of the lines, but...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 That map looks great--much nicer than the latest T maps, with the new wimpy curve of the E line. I really don't see the need for a new line color, though. I'm assuming this will just extend the splitting of the Green Line on the north/east side of...

The idea of allowing RIDE-eligible users (and their assistants) to ride fixed-route service for free sounds like it could work, while maintaining (perhaps with the proposed fare increases and service reductions) for those in the greatest need. Aside from capacity concerns, I don't see how...

Even though it looks like some of the existing buildings on side streets would be nicer if they were renovated, they at least lend some life to those street fronts. With porches, small front years and especially front doors, the streets seem to have a liveliness that successful residential...

Hmm. Actually, it looks like you were right, and I was misunderstanding it. The MTA's website confirms your suggestion: In that case, I really don't understand it, unless the city always wants the service to be available as many residents as possible, resulting in the circuitous routes.

I'm definitely not an expert on this, but I don't think the feds require paratransit within 3/4 mile of local fixed-route transit. I'm not sure how their service area is defined, but I'm assuming it is somehow legally defined as the city limits of Manchester, plus perhaps portions of the...

Knowing that the long side of the building in the rendering faces Euclid does make it much less objectionable to me. I still think it's generic looking, and I still question the idea of replacing an intact block of mostly successful (and fairly easily adaptable) buildings almost entirely with a...

That's a great building, and the story behind is good to know, too--I feel like almost every nice building in a city like Portland or Manchester has at one time fallen into disuse or been a warehouse or something like that, before being restored. I've never actually walked by the engine house...

The Nashua Telegraph is running a follow-up on the invitation from that city's aldermen for Councilor Wheeler to explain the rationale for his vote against the Capitol Corridor study. Here are a few excerpts: Wheeler's arguments exhibit a particularly excruciating form of idiocy. First of...

Great find. My dislike of the proposed building on Thayer St in Providence aside, I definitely would not consider all developers to be bad, by any means. I think the last few paragraphs sum it all up very nicely:

A couple interesting articles about the West Side in the Union Leader today. The first deals with the history of the Amoskeag neighborhood, which was the original center of industry in the city, and the other with an expansion of Manchester Community College just north of Amoskeag Village. Here...

It looks like the political backlash against the Executive Council vote is beginning to build. Obviously, it won't be clear how great that backlash is until November, but I hope that Nashua or some other entity is able to accept the study in the meantime. Former, three-term Councilor Deb...

Seeing the context around Lincoln Park to its current surroundings is pretty sad. Of course, the loss of all the graceful elm trees seen in old photos like this--in parks as well as along streets--shows the impact that good urban trees can have in making a city more attractive. I'm also...

I agree in principal and personally, but I doubt Ron was trying to express this sentiment as a legal argument. I certainly would not. My objection--along with those expressed by Patrick--is that this building, while reasonably attractive, just seems very generic compared to what exists now. The...

This is a really tough issue, and not unique to the T. I spoke with the director of the Manchester Transit Authority (MTA) in NH last year about the state of transit in that city. In response to a question about circuitous routes, he explained that part of the issue was an effort to bring...

I totally agree. NHRTA and rail advocates in NH know this, too--they know that if the state doesn't get its act together and pony up, the HSR will go around it. They've said repeatedly that people aren't going to wait for them, and that development will go around the state if they don't act soon.

I have no idea about the logistics/feasibility of this, but it could be interesting. Obviously, whether people are willing to make a commuter rail transfer would depend on ease and timing--if it could really be a matter of switching right across the platform "Orange-Green style" with little...