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YOOOOOO. The green line is an absolute disaster right now. I remembered it was bad, not this bad. It took me 45 minutes to get from prudential to park street on the E line. Looking at the time for the next train reminded me of when I rode the last red line train during the snowpocalypse of 2015...

Giving an update on some of the developments in downtown Portsmouth, all pictures taken today 11/29/2024 The old state street saloon building was demolished. This one is cool but it's just more office space. And the cluster of developments in the maplewood-deer street-bridge street area...

As much as I generally agree with making cities pedestrian friendly, Portsmouth already is. Their "traffic calming" measures in recent years have been for the most part excessive and annoying though. We do not have the public transportation necessary to give up cars here. Especially after the...

The staff on the ground having a rough day or what???

Hey guys! I haven't been super active in this community in recent years, just drop in to lurk from time to time. I'm hanging out in Boston December 6-8 for an event on Saturday night, I wanted to spend the rest of that time exploring Boston and meeting new people. I figured the members of this...

As much as it doesn't help the shortage directly, maybe building more hotels would also help reduce the profitability of airbnb... Boston (combined with surrounded communities) has less than half as many hotel rooms as other cities of comparable significance in business and leisure travel. The...

I live in NH (Portsmouth) and I am extremely frustrated - Residents and Businesses pay the property taxes all the same, there's no income tax. Meanwhile, for the past decade we've seen local restaurants close because low wage workers can't afford to live here to take those jobs. People just...

Boston is great because it is a living, breathing, changing city. It's both the old and the new. It is important to preserve the best of its history while at the same time allowing progress and change to happen. That is what NIMBYs don't get, if you try to take a city and freeze it in time, it...

I'm so sick of NIMBYs, bad zoning, and the whole approval process. Housing shortage has been extremely bad here for the past decade, NIMBYs still show up to city meetings to kill off any residential proposals but when office space gets offered in the same exact locations no one whines. I don't...

NYC is way easier to find something open, at least in manhattan. New Orleans has quite a bit of things open, not just places for alcohol. Las Vegas is 24 hours, even if it's for drunk people mostly. The entirety of Taiwan was ideal for being 24 hours excluding drinking establishments. but most...

What's the dining options like in there? I'm interested in the being able to grab something 24 hours a day if I stay there but that doesn't seem so great if the options are underwhelming or extremely overpriced. Once the food court shows up I'm sure it won't be 24 hours, like most of Boston...

I sometimes wonder why we don't see more people with the financial ability invest in a project to fill voids like this that is intended to reach break-even rather than turn a profit. Boston has hometown billionaires who care about their community, I'm sure some of these people can see the void...

and yet, it's unprofitable and the plant is being subsidized at the moment because of grid reliability issues. Which is the real point- it is now cheaper to get that energy from another source because this plant is not competitive. It's just that the replacement capacity doesn't exist yet. I...

meanwhile, the building be like "I don't care if you think I'm sexy, I'm here to get business done."

It's pretty much the first time I've seen orange being used tastefully- it's usually a half assed attempt to blend in with brick and terra cotta.

You know, I don't know how wise it is for a developer to build more commercial in Boston right now, especially to appease NIMBYs. There's demand for it now but there's an imbalance between commercial and residential and an expected downturn will likely hit commercial space much harder. There's...

Probably because of the water table. Having to constantly pump out water to prevent people's cars from being submerged in water seems less than ideal.

This is why you never stand underneath a load... What's with the crane/rigging accidents???

What exactly is the inherent design flaw with these that make them prone to this? Is it something that can't be modified adequately to mitigate the risk?

I can't access this place from work anymore, it loads as a blank page with just the archboston banner. Something is not jiving with the security settings and I think it's the ads. Oh well. But can someone check to make sure they aren't doing something really invasive? My work computer does that...