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Out of curiosity, how hard would it be to revive Design Research in Cambridge? After acquiring the rights to the name, the building, moving the current tenants out to other locations, and reassembling the entire staff and finding some new people too and the right people to run it, would it be...

Love the idea and the extensions. Think we can extend the Orange Line down to Westwood/128, like it was planned in the 70s too? And if that Charles River Island proposed by Ralph Adams Cram is built one day, think we can reroute the Blue Line under the Charles after Charles/MGH to serve that...

Me too.

I am ready to share my vision, and I propose to use the layout of the proposal i showed, but I want the entire buildings in the new complex to be all glass. Everything in clear glass, making the building very open. An extremely high tech and green design. That's what I want to put there.

Well, can it be designed for 2011?

I don't know why everyone is raging about this proposal. Perhaps if we lost the clock tower, would it be better?

I'd reconstruct Congress Street and narrow it to 4 lanes and remove the median.

Yeah. Reverse mistakes made by 1960s planning.

How about extending Hanover Street across Congress Street and City Hall Plaza to connect with Cambridge Street. That partially restores the grid and it could be done without any severe disruption, other than demolishing part of the barren City Hall Plaza and improving it slightly. After that, we...

How about you lobby to extend Hanover Street across Congress Street and City Hall Plaza to connect with Cambridge Street. That partially restores the grid. After than, how would you feel about lobbying to have this idea for a New Boston City Hall built? Does this idea look good?

I am with you on that!

Sorry, I made an error, I meant to say The Greenway Center in the North End, which will be redesigned.

Also think that charles river plaza can be demolished and rebuilt, in a pedestrian friendly design that takes the original street grid into account. Whole Foods can go at the gateway center in the north end, which should be redesigned.

How hard would it be to buy them out, offer them opportunity to purchase residences in the redevelopment at a discount, before they go on sale, or in a new skyscraper project? It would have to be worked out with the city, the tennants, the developers. But it could work.

If we could, we should knock the West End and the towers in the park down and recreate the original street grid, but with a sustainable, pedestrian friendly design. Influenced from Monocle Magazine's Perfect City Block, the environment would be cozy and cosmopolitan and contained, but well...

Third!

I thought the same thing too!

Why don't we build a new airport off of Deer Island, like I suggested many times ago. I remember reading Boston Visions competition and there was a proposal named Boston's Safety Belt, that called for using existing islands and new artificial islands to serve as a barrier to protect the harbor...

You guys know any other good locations for Wegmans in the Boston area after Northbourogh and Westwood?

Heavy rail should be good. Light rail should be on the streets. Green line Should go heavy. West Medford to Riverside via Central Subway, Huntington Avenue E Line, and then a connection to the D Line to Riverside.