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I'm just going to pull into this thread my personal concept for transit along this corridor, with some minor updates over the past year. This is what I've been thinking of as the "Brown X," an interlining concept taking advantage of the relative dimensional compatibility* of the Blue and Orange...

I've been living in Davis proximate neighborhoods for like 8 years, and there's never really been that many great pizza options. For pizza in Davis, its currently hard to beat American Flatbread, or just going to teele for Angelinas. Posto was better, but it moved to Assembly, but Ciao in Ball...

I mean... I know the current official BDL connection is at Hartford Union since the current Windsor Locks station is wholly inadequate, but once they open the replacement in a couple of months? Looking at the CTransit routes, the 24 is set up more for local service to the airport than train...

I realize you're probably looking at this intersection in isolation, but I personally think you might need/want a more holistic study of Highway access in this area. Leaving aside the success or failure of TOD at Anderson, its a very highway oriented space. Specifically, Commerce is functionally...

More likely, the issue with that flag is what other similar flags currently symbolise; namely, the Coast Guard ensign and the CBP flag - While the CG is politically uncontroversial, CBP... Not so much. (the only difference between the two flags is that the CG flag adds the CG crest.) It's not...

I do think that S. Attleboro and Pawtucket/CF serve distinct enough communities that both can coexist without cannibalizing the other - The Blackstone / Seekonk River exists. Obviously Pawtucket /CF is the recipient of all the RIPTA feed and the Hope/Main corridor, but the entire half of...

So... What are you arguing for, exactly? Let's clarify a couple of points - the new camera law excludes highways, so they're irrelevant to the discussion at hand - there should be no vulnerable road users there anyways. The law as written accepts that speeding is a reality - otherwise it...

Interesting - looks to be a purely software based that doesn't require hardware being deployed to individual intersections. Evidently Boston has centralized control over all of its lights already, and the MBTA OCC knows where every vehicle is, so if they're connected on the backend the ML system...

May I nominate the PI alley garage on Washington for redevelopment based on its general ugliness, sheer inefficiency of parking provided per area, central location, and in the interest of eventually extending the DTX pedestrian zone to City Hall Plaza? Add in the the long stalled but approved...

I'd already call this semi-periphery, given that this is going to occupy the otherwise rather messy parking lot facing Grove. Even if that facing includes a garage entry ramp, loading dock and other auxiliary ground level uses, I'd say it'd be a net improvement for Davis urbanism - it'd be...

Keep in mind that in MA, unlike most other states including IL, our towns and cities basically don't get to keep any of the revenue generated from tickets, written by cops or otherwise. They get a "reimbursement" from the RMV for costs, but it's a fairly token amount - for example, Cambridge...

Hell, even the proposed speed camera bill defines speeding that way with a significant buffer - the camera trigger is to be set at posted limit +11, +6 in school zones. And, as currently written, it specifically excludes limited access highways (other than MassDOT work zones), where most of the...

I should clarify - RTH doesn't own the Galleria, since that's a Druker property. And while a facelift would be appreciated, I do think it could and should take the level of redevelopment that went into Cambridgeside - the hotel and building at large dates to the 60s, and the rooms overlooking...

I admit the word largely was doing a lot of work, but there's really minimal new buried conduit here. 2 trenches across the path to reach existing conduit or handholes, some such to not block emergency exist gates... That's it. The vast majority of new conduit is rail mounted, as are all the new...

I hope folks aren't envisioning pole mounted lights here... The MBTA lease to the city largely doesn't allow them to install new conduit underground, so this plan is to install some 220 angled lights mounted to the underside of the existing guard rail.

But then there is the uniqueness of PHL, which has 3 stops for regional rail, an airside shuttle that only does A-F and C-F, and no landside terminal shuttle other than an economy parking one that happens to also stop at all terminals.

Wait, but that's the point of the Galleria - it's one of 2 parcels in longwood not owned by one of the Longwood institutions. Given it's very central location, it has a ton of potential - It's just owned by Druker. Despite its 90s nostalgia vibes, the place desperately needs a reinvention, but...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/business/mcca-ferry-north-station-seaport/ New MCCA ferry stop being added at the far end of the seaport by the drydock, for the benefit of workers in the Black Falcon / Vertex buildings and others out this way in Ray Flynn. That said, since they're...

There's a couple of decent photos of this thing floating around, but it's apparently one of a pair. One reads "New England BLD" with a "ye cod" on it, and the other "Erected AD 1889." They appear to have been here since at least 2007, when the first photos appear in the ICA thread on this site...

To be fair, its just a cable plant. a massively expensive and politically sensitive one to be sure, but still a cable plant - Prysmian has other facilities that can provide the same stuff- it'd just need shipping up here. That said, offshore wind is admittedly a massively expensive form of...