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The Boston-area transit world is composed of the people who are involved in providing, managing, maintaining, advocating for, or discussing public transit (particularly the MBTA) in the Boston area. Not sure why that's unclear to you.

There's nothing personal in saying that the Boston-area transit world is closed-minded and has gone insane. Remember, this thread is about a $0.5 billion project that has somehow turned into a $3 billion project. That's insane. Meantime, people from the Boston-area transit keep on claiming...

imgur album. The Spanish know how to build their cities... unlike us. Also includes a set of images from Madrid Rio, which is the Spanish version of the Big Dig, putting 10 km of highway underground and opening up a massive riverfront park -- with no 'surface artery highway' on top either! I...

I just want to point out that F-Line is only human and he does make mistakes. And if you've followed the forum for a while you may have noticed that whenever winstonoboogie has corrected those mistakes, F-Line has thrown a temper-tantrum on the thread. Let's not get into hero-worship here, okay?

First, I will agree that we don't want to build another "D" branch. Access to platforms is of supreme importance, skimping on elevators and egresses is a bad idea. ADA compliance is not only a legal mandate, it's a moral mandate. However, this following statement is completely insane and a good...

I don't get why anyone would want to spend even $60 million on an aboveground rail station just to prove a tough-guy point about process ("... it's not the stations!11!1"). That amount is still far too high (except for Lechmere, perhaps, since it's elevated). Something is radically wrong. The...

Yeah, pretty much. Lawn Guylanders are the worst. BTW, on the topic of noise: I've noticed that London's elevated railway lines are pretty quiet to the surrounding streets. And in Amsterdam, I could hardly hear a noise at all from the elevated viaducts. Wouldn't notice a train going by unless...

The outrageous cost has to do with corruption and inability of public agencies to guard against it. But meanwhile, why not take the opportunity to cut costs in a way that actually improves the outcome, rather than insisting on installing a suboptimal system?

Except that faregates make the user experience worse, cost a lot more money, and are easy to defeat anyway -- requiring continual monitoring by a paid employee, for all time.

New article: How zoning restrictions make segregation worse.

No, because (a) it's super painful to go through each picture and copy/paste the URL into the box, and (b) the forum doesn't know how to load images smartly, so it takes forever/eats up bandwidth every time someone clicks on the topic.

See imgur gallery.

See imgur gallery. 4-day trip, lots of fun. When I go back I want to do some intercity rides, and a somewhat better bike (mine was a single-speed spare with barely working backpedal brakes, and an uncomfortable saddle).

Here in the UK they eagerly use lots of 'extreme' traffic calming measures: speed bumps ("humps"), tabled intersections, lane-narrowing (to 6-feet wide) sections, single-'tracking' sections (forced yield), filtered permeability up the wazoo, 20-is-plenty, etc. Bicycle contraflow has been...

Pretty much all but the narrowest of streets should be 2-way. And even those should be 2-way for bikes as much as possible. One-way systems of of multi-lane streets are just an overengineered nightmare for everyone.

LOL! "With resident approval". Does he really believe that the selfish pricks who have been making it nearly impossible to build housing for the past several decades are going to suddenly change their mind?

Think you snuck a Manhattan shot into the 'Pittsburgh' section...

So you're saying that this thread is the antidote to the anecdote?

I've used Gateway Center which also is a station in a misguided 1960s-era urban renewal plaza that had its ugly headhouse replaced with a glass 'daylighting' structure. old new I didn't try it in a rainstorm (got lucky, I guess), but it seemed reasonably decent.

Narrow? I guess I'm too accustomed to the UK, where infra is largely shit. The bike lanes in Munich were largely off-street and protected, but some of them were a rather old fashioned design that could use updating. Munich S-Bahn seems to operate 7 branches each every 20 minutes on 2 tracks...