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Happy 2017, guys. This extension is now officially 2 years past the original opening projection, and there's no shovels in the ground right now. Just remember, that if we instead opted for DMU's, we could probably already have a service running with just a third or fourth railroad track added...

Yes, yes, YES! BUILD! That blank wall along Middlesex Ave looks horrendous, though. Also not a fan of the surface lot between Block 24 and Block 25, but it is pretty small. What are the chances of punching pedestrian access through I-93? Revolution Dr is the ideal place for a single punch...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett Doesn't look that way to me. Looks like they're just changing the geometry. In fact, it looks like the turn will be even higher speed than at present.

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett The same exact way you would today?

Are those streams of water, or some sort of string/rope?

Re: T construction news These will be happening concurrently, I believe. But, obviously, there's potentially two different contractors. Drawbridge work also includes creation of a full interlocking with power switch at CP Wilson. I hope to God they plan on removing the damn stop posts for...

Just bounding off this: why not have ground floor retail, too, even on a midrise. Require the retail businesses to be a DBE: owned by a minority or woman.

Interesting. Look at that one flight that went over Beacon Hill, Chinatown, and the Fort Point Channel. Are these all landing, all take-offs, or both? Also, if they're all 33L and not 33R, then how is one going the other direction? Touch-and-go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg Never took a moment to step back and think about what genre this fits into. It seems sort of like pop-country-rock-ish? Not sure how to describe it. EDIT: Not sure why my text is being turned into a link.

The facade I see standing looks like garbage. Why was that saved? It looks like Value Engineering from 1910.

Not sure what customer that would be. I never had an extra-dimensional move to the Greenville Branch. It was all tankers and centerbeams to the two remaining customers. If there was ever an extra-dimensional move, I'd had to have requested someone to raise the flaps at North Leominster. I...

Why? OCD/perfectionism mostly. :rolleyes: But also because of potential single-track/wrong-iron operations which may crop up. The last thing the system needs is another Swampscott. If you run wrong-iron at Swampscott, even with signs and alerts telling people to board on the other side, you're...

Actually, even if you have a separate job served them entirely via Western Route, they won't make it past either the Mountain Ave or Clifton St overhead bridge. I forget which one it is, probably Clifton St, but you can look up at it and see a nice dent in the bridge deck beam about the width of...

Not sure what you mean. There'd be no crossing the tracks. The platform would extend over Concord Ave. East of Concord Ave, a stairway in the middle of the platform will descend down between the tracks/in the middle of the platform to the sidewalk. On the west side, the platform ends at an...

Fitchburg Line 1. Union Sq infill station with a center-island, high-level platform between Webster Ave & Newton St overhead bridge and Washington St overhead bridge. Egress to west side of Prospect St overhead bridge and east side of Webster Ave & Newton St overhead bridge, and east side of...

I can't believe this thread is still going. Actually, yes I can, very much so. At least aB has somewhere other than actual aB threads to post this manure in.

The article in the Globe relevant to all of the above discussion came from the third and final Everett Transit Action Plan meeting. The consultant who seemed to have been behind the River's Edge plan seemed to have no idea of how to actually cobble the thing together. In a span of about three...

Re: One Seaport Square | Parcels B-C@Seaport Sq. | Seaport It will, the curb cuts have already been there for years. It is starting to take shape now.

Re: Water It doesn't really seem to be a major issue at present. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/how_do_drought_conditions_impa.html#0 Dips to 87% appear to be common. 85% is the lowest end of the "normal" range. Apparently 60% is the threshold for mandatory water restrictions...