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Yeah. I like to think that a well-designed public authority does in fact represent the opinion of the general population, but smoothed out across generations, and steeped in patience/context/knowledge that the average person wouldn't be expected to have. If 51% of a city doesn't like some...

Like, as a result of laziness / incompetance / backwards incentives? Or is there actually a rational reason that a good transit agency would do that?

This part is insult to inury. $325k for the MBTA, $628k for the squatter.

Now THIS is the quality content that I come here for.

I'm sure it could be improved, but the fact that you marked Readville as a terminus at all is such an improvement.

Under both the current map and the BNRD map, Nubian is the biggest bus hub in the entire network. Unless that hub were relocated to a Fairmount stop, the SL4/5 corridor will remain critical for Roxbury/Dorcester/Mattapan transfers. With that in mind, the I-93 "express to Nubian" line that...

OK, that was a fantastic watch. You're right--that should be required watching for young folks like me before we start suggesting Silver Line changes :) Takeaways: There is room for a median busway and/or LRT through the South End *if* you remove a significant amount of parking and possibly...

OK, so down-branding SL4/5 is politically unviable, and for good reason--there OUGHT to be rapid transit to Nubian, even if there isn't today. So what about upgrading them to proper BRT? At least south of the pike, just eyeballing the satellite view, it seems like there'd be room for a proper...

God mode pitch: Renumber the whole network so that high-frequency routes are multiples of 10. Reasonable pitch: Keep the T prefix, or switch it to F for frequent, or K for key, or something! There's no way a casual transit user will remember that routes 1, 7, 39, 111, yada yada are all...

Basically every version of Green Line reconfiguration/expansion I've seen on this forum includes a branch to Nubian, some as a dedicated-median trolley, others as elevated light metro. Heck, F-Line's username is a callout to the idea. Perhaps we don't talk about it more because it's so obvious...

I understand your logic, but I haven't seen instances of that reasoning (outside of this forum) applied to SL3x. Anecdotally, I've seen one non-railfan person in my Facebook feed actively post the SL3x map, saying how excited they are about what it will do for them and their coworkers who...

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I would air on the side of mandatory rezoning with punitive enforcement (the stick) and then rewarding actual housing development with transit funding (the carrot). Rezoning is just such a basic first step in the face of a crisis, and it's several steps away from actually housing people. I...

Several us have been waiting on name change approvals for a couple months now. Any mods out there able to approve them? Thanks in advance 🙏

It's a good point. This would give car people a reason to oppose upzoning, and give NIMBYs a reason to oppose transit development. So, the question becomes: are there enough YIMBY-minded and transit-minded people in these towns that their voice would outweigh a united NIMBY+car contingent?

While I do find the debate above to be thoughtful and interesting, I've got to say that we're looking for fairness in something that isn't meant to be fair. Milton's existence as a wealthy low-density suburb immediately adjacent to Boston is the result of weath inequality and unsustainable...

Zip is 02121, which straddles Roxbury and Dorchester. BPDA's own neighbhood map puts everything west of Blue Hills Ave (plus some stuff east of it) in Roxbury, including this development at 157 Humboldt. Curious how BDPA decided this was Dorchester. Also curious if the listed neighborhood has...

Haven't read the reports as closely as some of you folks, but I'll say that including Everett Sq is a no-brainer. Connecting people's houses to their jobs is just one of the functions of rapid transit, and it's one that is rivalled in convenience by car travel. Connecting people to walkable town...

Fully agreed that approvals shouldn't be at the whim of an elected official. But couldn't this also be achieved if the city council codified a more liberal zoning policy such that the majority of projects were by-right instead of by-appeal?

According to Jane Jacobs in the Death and Life of Great American Cities, most "experts" at the time also found the North End to be a terrible slum and wanted it to see the same fate. NIMBYs drive me crazy... but the absolute hubris and inhumanity of midcentury planners have given everyone a...