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I mean, it's iffy. You the citizen is mostly likely to encounter the police in an adversarial way during a traffic stop - and it's at a interesting intersection of safety from multiple perspectives. Over the past 5 years, something like 400 people were shot by the police during traffic stops. To...

Eversource today purchased the remaining Mystic Station site for $70M including Units 8&9, but not including the LNG terminal. While the article notes 8&9 will likely be demolished, it likely indicates that this site will remain power infrastructure for the foreseeable future, though Mayor...

Greenbush cost $534M dollars. Assuming 2003 dollars, (rough start of construction) per the BLS CPI inflation calculator that's ~$917M in Dec 2024 dollars. For Middleborough/Kingston lines, assuming 1993 dollars, those lines cost ~1.17B. Since we know there's been significant inflation in recent...

I generally agree, and you might want to look into something know as SBIR/STTR - that is basically "basic" research contracts being dedicated to SMBs within and without the xARPA system. It's only roughly ~4% of the federal government's research budget, not including grants/contracts won by SMBs...

Part of that is going to be sheer complexity - with the right skill set you could build a P51 Mustang in a well equipped garage, or at least any decent machine shop. That's not true of a F35, or really anything with solid state electronics, and the low-hanging fruit that doesn't involve huge...

Worth noting that the 66 memory care beds is the existing use - the Phase 1 project will be replacing those in kind with zero expansion. What is being added is 67 affordable "independent living" senior units on top of them which is unlikely to generate significant additional tradfic. Also, while...

Lease formally signed today, globe article linked with selected excerpts on the financial terms. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/23/sports/white-stadium-boston-nwsl-lease/

Looking back, the 2011 study was only funded for $50k by way of legislative earmark - as far as transportation studies go, that's a token amount that I'm not confident would have actually reached the reporting stage with any meaningful ridership or service conclusions. That said, I also agree...

I've posted this elsewhere here, but these maps/charts from 2023 while already very out of date still provide a great idea of why VA power plants are such hot items right now - the PJM ISO is expected to represent ~50% of all US Data Center power consumption, and in VA something like 26% of all...

I haven't exactly been paying super close attention, but isn't TF Green's 2nd platform an active project for extensions both of more Providence Line trains (including weekends) and as an infill for Amtrak NE Regionals? Despite the passenger numbers and trends for TF Green being not-great...

So in general, what do we think about the Ts current apparent plan to reconfigure the CR contract? The presentation today pretty clearly favors option 3, where the T would hand over buying new trains and electrifying the system to private parties - most of the respondents to the RFI were from...

Worth noting at least a few things. 1, the T did already ED the cold storage site as part of the 2023 taking, so that's already done and dusted - the T just needs City of Boston owned roadway parcels. 2, my understanding is that the T can only layover in Southampton during the day? The 2013...

Actually, if we are assuming that Amtrak Inlands or East Wests will be running at maximum track speed, how critical to performance will Worcester Triple Track be? I assume dodging 30min regionals won't be too bad past Framingham, but inbound of Framingham the Worcester Line is very stop dense -...

They looked at it as part of Focus40, the last PMT (Program for Mass Transportation) in 2019; they were considering it as part of a long range plan to consolidate Park, State and DTX stations into a superstation serving every line. I don't believe they advanced it into planning however - it...

Just to be clear, what are you envisioning exactly? I pictured something like this: If you're proposing a new elevated platform on Cambridge, you'd necessarily have to provide station access from the existing RL headhouse where the vertical circulation points at each of the RL platforms. You...

Ah! The verbiage you're looking for there is "small bay flex / light industrial." I totally get what you're saying, since one of my cousins is a furniture maker in one of those aforementioned NYC neighborhoods - and yes, those spaces are largely disappearing in urban areas since they tend to be...

Honestly a lot of the New York City outer boroughs feel like that; East Williamsburg/ Bushwick/ Greenpoint/ Dutch Kills to name a few, or parts of London. Even around Boston's industrial pockets there are spots, like this area in Newmarket or this one in Everett, or the inverse where there's an...

My understanding is that expanding in-house project management and design is something that Eng is pushing alongside more in-house capacity in general. Admittedly what I've heard is so far is that available in house capacity has largely been very maintenance / TIP / SoGR focused rather than...

Part of that is Malden does a terrible job of making documents publicly accessible, but I wouldn't say Malden is anti-development, but they've gotten most of the low-hanging fruit. That site in particular was originally planned for a Mass-Timber framed office building that got as far as...

I'm in the middle of a mapping project of all T/MassDOT owned properties, and I can tell you with some certainty that the T never owned that building - BERy owned the site in the early 1910s, but by 1920 or so it'd been partioned out as a garage. That building was explicitly drawn into the...