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The current state of the southern strip of the site, looking west-northwest from my office in One Broadway (the funny white shape in the bottom-right of the map). Roughly speaking: the parking lot will become 3rd St Park and part of C1, the low-rise will be split by the extension of 5th St into...

Part of me is happy to see a housing project, another part of me is nervous for the climbing gym and Aeronaut. There's a big part of Somerville, myself included, that enjoys those places as a transit/biking/walking-accessible third place.

"Red-Blue Connector" lmao

Exciting project. I work in One Broadway, the dreary concrete rectangle right across from this site, so I should be able to post some photos from above once it gets going. I do hope they manage to preserve the existing beautiful mature trees lining Third, Broadway, and Loughry Bikeway as they...

New Spilling the T podcast today: Some details on the Red/Orange power issue, but as far as I know, nothing new or revelatory. Regardless, I like listening to Eng speak. Eng does claim here that the GL shutdowns have led to an improved customer experience.

First moved to the Boston area in 2015, moved to where I am now in South Medford 2018. Even in that short amount of time, there has been so much to celebrate: way more bike infra, government center garage demolition, rise of Assembly Row into a place worth visiting, and now the new Pike...

Man, you'd think that Dukakis would deserve to have something big named after him *that doesn't already have another name*.

I lived in the Alewife area for a year or so, in one of those big apartment complexes. I moved away (back to S Medford), partially because the area felt weird. A friend referred to the area once as "the uncanny valley", which had me in stitches, because it's true. ABP was certainly a factor but...

as in, the sign's existence in Kenmore, or the view of the sign from Waltham?

Yeah I phrased my comment as curiosity (3) because I had low confidence in its value, but seeing that there is some interest, I would say that: surface connectors are an end-state (2) only if Boston is able to adopt an Amsterdam-like attitude towards autos eventually pedestrianize enough midtown...

Riffing off of that, could the initial build just be center-running BRT, with the busses turning around at/near Back Bay in lieu of hooking into the Huntington GL? The Nubian-bound SLs could also be merged into the network. You could imagine something like this: * SL0 is Back Bay to (City...

Potentially stupid question, but how farfetched would it be to shut down some streets to traffic in order to connect the GL to the Transitway via the surface? I know that the running consensus here is to connect the Huntington subway, not the Boylston subway, to the Transitway. But let's...

That plan is... shockingly awful. What's the best way to oppose this as a regular person (who doesn't live in Boston proper)? Write to our state rep? Complain at a public meeting?

I believe that a cable tram is distinct from modern LRT in that the former is propelled by "grabbing onto" an externally-powered cable that is running underneath the street, whereas the latter has an engine on board. In that sense, cable trams and gondolas are both "cable cars" whereas LRT is...

That first picture is charming, and also not completely detached from reality. Makes me think "looking north up the Fort Point channel if the USPS facility were redeveloped in the style of the Leather District".

The BPDA finalized their Seaport Strategic plan yesterday, which recommends an Essex St tunnel (pg 24) but conveniently leaves out any specifics on where that tunnel should surface: (That whole document is interesting, although IMO it reads as a collection of reasonable-to-crazy pitches rather...

Going back even further, all the post-big-dig Seaport redevelopment was guided by a SBW Public Realm Plan. BPDA's document finder sucks on mobile so I can't actually find the final plan, but here's a 1997 draft of it back from when it was still officially called Seaport. To @Charlie_mta 's...

You make very good points. My hesitation, though, is that if a stadium goes up without a TOD master plan for the whole area, then it might naturally end up being surrounded by wide stroads, huge parking lots, and other car-centric developments, which could be hard to roll back for a very long...

Yup. Their incentives need to be fixed, and as far as I know, only the legislature can do that. Public authorities only work well when their business's success aligns with public interest.

Well, they were: https://voice.somervillema.gov/assemblynp/