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Isn't the trolley stop much closer to what people actually seem to consider Mattapan Square (Blue Hills Ave X Cummins Hwy)? This is based on my one visit to the neighborbood, so anyone who knows better please correct me.

OK, I'm with you, that will be tragic. I'd hoped/assumed the deed restriction would stop them from doing that.

I'm absolutely not a density-at-all costs urbanist. Two big reasons I'm pro-density is that it leaves more space to preserve nature and history. I agree that expanding Allendale woods to include the entire parcel would be great. But that would require the current owner to either sell their land...

I'm not in love with it either, particularly the 2 parking spots per unit part. 1 per unit should be plenty anywhere in Boston. But a moritorium on all development? Seems regressive to me. Why not allow these SFHs to be replaced with denser housing, under the provision that some of the parcel...

What form do you think those incentives should take? I'm all for increasing density, but I get nervous when a spot I like is forced to "temporarily" close for construction.... temporary often becomes permanent. Are there instances where cities/states will, say, subsidize the businesses during...

I would argue that RL crowding is less-so a function of downtown density and more-so a function of slow zones, a missing orbital line, and missing link between North and South stations. Unless they hop on a bus, anyone north of the river needs to travel downtown in order to reach Back Bay, LMA...

4.24.24 I get to watch the frame go up from my office next door.

Great analysis @Teban54 . I agree that it's objectively wrong to say that rail expansions aren't happening any more. In fact, it's so obviously wrong that I have to think she must have meant something else when she said it. My own interpretation is that she is saying that major rail expansions...

That's a really cynical take based on limited information. He's the former SecDOT, so it's no surprise that Tibbits-Nutt uses his counsel. The article didn't say "Salvucci AND SALVUCCI ALONE was responsible for Tibbits-Nutt opposing the layover". If he weren't around she very well may have...

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I'll take ugly and colorful over dreary, grey superblock boxes.

Don't forget Brighton Music Hall, and several Korean restaurants. Perhaps it's just selection bias, but very time I go to a concert there, the area is packed with pedestrians.

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Yeah, this is the crux of my confusion. Quasi-rapid service via Regional Rail is the prevailing proposed solution for those gaps you listed, and some of those gaps are at least as deserving of rapid service as Quincy and Braintree are. So, if the Braintree branch weren't already in place, would...

To be transparent, it's "this makes sense to me, but I'm sure it's a bad idea, and I'm interested to know why." Maybe I should have put this in the Transit Shitposting thread. Point taken that this is a very stupid idea pre-NSRL. But post-NSRL too? If I understand right, RR trains will connect...

Here's an idea to tear apart... Current state of the Braintree branch: RL trains every 15/21mins (on/off peak). TransitMatters' Old Colony Rail proposal: RR (regional rail) trains to run Braintree->SS every 7/15mins, based on the overlap of the Middleborough and Hyannis (Kingston) lines...

Cool Eng interview from earlier today, a little more personal and detailed than his other interviews so far: https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/04/04/crrc-orange-line-low-income-fares-t-blue-hill-ave

The millionaire's tax was not mindlessly whipped up by a bunch of power-drunk communist revolutionaries--believe it or not, progressives do care _a lot_ about long-term tax revenue. The tax was studied, and while that study did anticipate tax avoidance, it did not anticipate the avoidance would...

Can you cite something that says a significant number of $1MM+/yr earners have left the state? If you can, then yeah, it's a pretty damning case for the Fair Share Amendment! But if you can't, then sorry... this is just standard angry conservative speculation. This isn't the first time MA has...

Good find @Wonk . I wonder if it's at all related to their strange proposal to ferry people to/from the casino instead of having them... walk across the street.