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It’s also a complete fantasy to claim that any state agency is required to comply with some kind of nationwide Vision Zero standard in any way with teeth. Nobody is getting their highway funds cut off.

I accuse them directly.

There is no small amount of literature about the throughput-obsessed thinking that guides most state transit thinking. The recent book “Killed By a Traffic Engineer” (written by a traffic engineer!) dives deep into the problem.

All of these people are local transit officials. Big city DOTs is where all the pedestrian scale thinking occurs. State transit is all gas no brake. Have a look at the 27/9 interchange in Natick, the Bowker Overpass disaster, this entire stretch of the Pike, and the streets proposed in the...

And I’m sorry, it is laughably untrue that “every DOT in the country,” even our own MassDOT is “incredibly serious about pursuing zero fatalities on our roads.” They make daily design decisions that they know will kill people and they do it in the name of traffic throughput.

Well they’re approaching it from an interesting angle here: Eliminate pedestrian deaths by eliminating pedestrians altogether. Can’t run them down if they don’t bother walking around in the first place.

MassDOT’s priority is, as usual, maximizing how many drivers per hour can plow their 8 wheeled Ford Leviathans into child pedestrians. You know the natural friction and caution that a driver feels when navigating a very tight urban environment? That feeling, which makes drivers slow down, is the...

6 of one half dozen of the other.

Well I did say almost trivial but I bet I could pencil it out in a half hour or so. Two towers on a shared podium, 40 stories each, wouldn’t be too crazy.

It would be almost trivial to fit homes for 1200 people on the Pi Alley Garage site.

NIMBYism

Slow motion suicide.

A lot of the problems with City Hall Plaza can be attributed to the 1000' long dead-eyed expanse of Center Plaza and the purposefully inhospitable 450' length of the JFK lowrise component. Center Plaza could be (conservatively!) 4- 500 foot tall buildings. Homes for 3500 people.

I think this is an excellent building and it should be the kind of thing we look forward to for the next couple decades. Low-to-midrise sites getting 300-400’ buildings, densifying the city and filling out the skyline.

It’s best to counter NIMBY arguments by arguing not in favor of the current proposal, but in favor of a denser, taller proposal. Cite local context, lack of housing, proximity to transit, etc.

What a pathetic city.

I'll believe it when I see it!

Eng should tell them to pound sand.

If Democrat Robert Benson of Hopkinton promises “paper compliance” with the MBTA then the MBTA should offer the same. Trains will continue to stop in Southboro, 2 second dwell times.