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Yeah no I knew Roxbury had the back bay, I just never really thought of the south end as being a name in use pre landfill and more so I’m a bit confused about Brookline street being the border of colonial era south end—isn’t that well into 19th century landfill territory?

These are amazing

Can you elaborate on this? Makes general sense to me, but would love some historical knowledge on why it is so.

I like the brick but the other material looks too flat and bare, makes it look stuck on or plasticky and the brick just pulling a distraction for the cheapo stuff.

This is Lower Roxbury The South End designation has enveloped former Roxbury only for unfortunate reasons, but beyond Mass Ave is not the South End, gentrification or not.

Yeah... also they are both major "known" cross streets, and in my mind it makes sense to have a stop for every "known" cross street. If the road is significant enough that people use it as a reference point ("I live off Warren"), it needs its own transit station.

I dont disagree, and nothing in your post is inconsistent with what I said.... Hyde Square isn't Arborway and isn't really Centre St either, save for a few feet. How about eminent domain for the 711 and have it go to Canary Square? Maybe not so crazy and if there is the width to do it (which...

I don’t think that in general this is a realistic was to enforce safer driving on local streets. You’re talking about tons of cameras, and systems to handle them, monitoring, ticket dispensation, etc. A lot of infrastructure and it only works where it works, which means that people still drive...

TfL does this with many lines and for varying reasons. I think a hollow red line would work well for this. The T has also done this themselves before, look no further than the old maps back when the Arborway line was “temporarily discontinued”.

I just was wondering aloud if Red is the best branding or if — especially now — there might be other benefits to coloring it a different color. For example, as a transit map nerd, I get extra little adrenaline boosts when I look at a map of transport for London and go “ahhh the Croydon...

It just means a couple tunnels or protected reservations are in order to connect those thick yellow lines.

I was explaining the Mattapan line to someone today and showed them the map and realized... why is it displayed as "the Red Line"? It's a totally different line that connects to the Red. I assume 99% of riders use it to get to or from the Red, but it's most definitely not the Red Line. Would...

Oh, I am totally down for that. That probably would require quite a lot of cameras and technology but as a concept I have zero problem with auto ticketing this sort of scofflaw.

Fair, thanks for clarifying, sounds less bad in some respects. However, I would still say that the Forbes Building is better screened than this will likely ever be, with deep setbacks and despite not being an aesthetic marvel, still breathes residential which has messenging effects of its...

Got curious and googled this, one of the first results:

It's a very delicate issue and I do think one which, like so many things, tends to draw strong opinions that ignore certain pros and cons. I used to be totally against, out of a combined anti-Big Brother attitude but also out of frustration that local police seem to never bother enforcing...

I’m simply saying that it may not really capture a future reality that either does or does not have some major investment, by simply describing a current trend. You might say we’ve heard that Lowell is going to be the next hot city for twenty years too, but it still isn’t, yet if you plunked a...

I do think this is a bit of a static take (ie, not taking into account the impact of what happens once you get the stadium and the events)... not that "if you build it, they will come" is necessarily always the case, but I do think that in an urban area, particularly one where sports are popular...

Im amazed that this—a giant institutional project right next to the parkway (and the most charming two blocks of brick apartment buildings in JP) could even be considered at all, given the absurdity of the 632 Centre St saga. Fighting 4 floors as "too tall" for downtown JP, on Centre is just...

They seem to have a number of nice takes on urban row houses.