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That'd do the trick.

I'm bearish on autonomous vehicles in cities--I'd never say never, but if it's a race between self-driving cars and Uber and Lyft being in the ground, the latter feels more likely.

The rising price of rideshares will do the work of pushing more people into the transit system anyway, so I'm all for helping them along with this surcharge. It's fairly well-reported by now that none of the big players in this sector make any money; Uber and Lyft use VC money to subsidize...

Essex St in particular will never change without police enforcement, which means it never will because they abuse it too. Maybe those little flappy bollards might do the trick. But it's just too convenient of a corridor to slip onto 93 from the greater downtown area. People hate sitting in...

My blocklist has grown by a member, you've had a laugh but a lot of us here try to take things somewhat seriously.

What kind of magic trains can you get for that kind of money? For 10 extra percent of my income I'd want a train on wheels that lives in my driveway and only goes to the places I want, when I want and in which I can play my own music through the speakers. (My comment history will speak to my...

Scanning/CNC is going to be a great tool in the kit of preservers/restorers, and sculptural milling and printing will become more prevalent but it's not that easy to model or document from a design perspective. There aren't a ton of firms in the world who are capable of producing the swoopy...

East Village was a dud but I always liked IV, different strokes.

Reserving my opinion on casinos in general or this one in particular, but there is an MGM in National Harbor and it has more of a landscraper form but it does have actual entertainment venues like the kind we've been stiffed here. It's brand new and shiny and does all the things you're talking...

Starting to get pretty difficult to project what those kinds of things might be without hard figures. Weston CEOs who could move their companies to 128 vs a younger workforce with little desire to work in suburban office parks, who wins? People who think "was gonna drive the family up to...

True, but what about the goal of moving the "where everyone has to live and work" needle in the other direction? A true high-functioning rail network would over time undo the Boston-or-nothing pressure on getting people into and out of the CBD every day. It spreads out where in the region things...

Many points made well here. My own experience as a motorist reflects a lot of what is being said, that the decision to take any route or mode is the result of a number of inputs. I know and care that my car emits a non-zero and non-trivial amount of carbon, I know what I can afford in terms of...

Well they have to start the new folks somewhere. What better place than *checks notes* uh, a prominent location in a major city with a strong masonry tradition?

We're talking at cross purposes here but don't really have to be. It can be true that driving creates externalities that we haven't priced yet, AND, obviously, that drivers are not going to be persuaded by hearing about all the ways in which they're bad. Those aren't answering the same thing...

There are bars but not clubs per se, though they're the kind of bar that has a lot of dancing. You have Cask on one end which has a pretty large dance floor in the back, then the House of Blues at the midblock, and then on the eastern end Lansdowne and the other bars do get pretty rowdy. I'm...

It's such a cynical money grab, I wish I'd thought of it.

Exciting. This should be a really solid project and I like seeing selection of an architect who can make things with depth and character. Although is it just me or do they spend the entire "Exterior Expression: Building Design" section highlighting some pretty clumsy collisions in cladding...

Hey, maybe let's stay away from victim-blaming here. You can't maintain both that this is a pervasive social problem and that it would be solved by simply checking a license plate. The penalty for making an honest mistake isn't death. This has happened both with actual drivers who cleared...

Love to see this! This is why I don't accept that we need to have grey paneling on everything going up these days. It doesn't take that much more effort to select some nice colors and distribute them on a facade, you just have to care.

I'm into this idea, provided we don't repeat the mistakes of the greenway: we don't need continuous roads on both sides of the park, and we don't need the surface streets to directly track the turnpike below (this would undermine the 'knitting together' of decking). Herald OR Marginal, flatten...