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Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Not all benefits accrue in the area where there are new expansions. It's like a network effect- the more major destinations you're able to serve, the better utilized it will be across the board. Since this reaches an area with no current rapid...

I think it's a wash though. The have's are all rolling around town in those cabs and black cars anyways.

Re: Filene's With such a significant retail presence, I don't doubt what you're saying, but I think it makes it less likely. I'm interested to see who will be on the ground floor. Nordstrom's?

Re: New Brighton Landing | New Balance Complex Haven't been on the Providence Line I take it? But that^^ plan or DMU's could work. So long as frequencies are bumped up within 128. Any method will work really. It's the outcome that matters.

Re: New Brighton Landing | New Balance Complex Nah, let's electrify the line but continue to run diesels on it indefinitely

Is this going to delay the opening of the bike trail ?

Remove a couple lanes. Incentivize retail installations by giving tax breaks. Retrofitting ground floors costs money, make it easy for abutting business owners to do it. Oh, and develop those adjacent parcels and ramp parcels....

This is a pretty good proposal overall. I'm usually against highway expansion of any sort but this is a great solution for the HOV problem on the SE Expressway. It ends randomly at Savin Hill, forcing carpool traffic to get stuck in traffic before the ramps begin again in the South End. It...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 So this is the really, really important part of this analysis. Unified community presence, with a couple of politicians who happen to listen to their constituents/see the benefit of transit expansion. Where else is there a combination of these...

Re: The Victor I'm much less concerned about what this will do to views from any perspective and more concerned with what this will do for the pedestrian experience.

24 hour service doesn't require prohibitively expensive triple tracking or anything like that. All it really needs is one or two trains in each direction per hour at night. Headways can be pathetic... so long as the stations are open and safe, and you know that a train will eventually be coming...

Not everybody works a 9-5. Plus, going to the gym "after work" for most people from 4-9 pm usually results in approximately 2 sets of actual lifting and about 4578439 instances of "bro, are you done with that bench yet?" Sometimes, it's just better to go a little later.

Planet Fitness is open 24/7 in a few locations around the Boston metro, I know in Malden and Chelsea it's open all night on the weekdays. Then again, those wouldn't be in Boston proper...

My reasonable transit pitch: In Medford, use an (abandoned?) railroad right of way as a sort of BRT to get busses to flow into Wellington Station better. Basically, it would go from Riverside Ave. to River's Edge Dr, using the ROW. It would catch busses coming from Riverside Ave, Rt. 28, and...

Re: Theater District Parcel P-7A Great PDF, excellent find. After going through there were a few highlights: -no parking whatsoever -double the retail space from the previous proposal -shares a loading dock with the theatre behind it -change from residential to "moderately-priced" hotel...

This design is good so long as it's not value engineered to death At least it doesn't completely neglect the pedestrian experience from this angle. A cafe over here by the water/barking crab is an excellent addition, we could use more of this in the Seaport. The "open space' doesn't seem too...

If there's any opportunity for redevelopment, it should start with government center, and to the bank of america building directly south. These two buildings anhiliate the vibrancy created by the T. They cut off the city from the train station, disengage the pedestrian at street level, and...

"Rooney, a Hub native whose 30 years in public service have included stints as MBTA general manager and the mayor’s chief of staff, said he may never be able to sell Boston as a tourist destination like Las Vegas, New Orleans or Orlando, so he has used a different strategy." Sounds like this...