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Having spent a lot of time running around the country, I'd argue Boston has done a much better job of handling the homeless population than most, with much less of a "street" homeless / unhoused problem than many many other cities. Yes, Boston has the 2nd highest rate of homelessness amongst...

It's a fairly substantial site, especially since they also bought the building marked 255. Certainly larger than that for which they drew up the conceptual plans for in 2012; back then they were looking for layover for up to 7 500' trains and a small maintenance bay; the new site could...

Yea that thing is going to end up Internet famous for how bad it is. Also, it barely shares anything in common with the renders they have of this thing. You know, at least put windows in that front facade rather than bricking them over?

Err, do please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that is still the plan, if delayed? the Commonwealth bought this site in Winter 2023, and it's stated intention at the time was for it to become a Rail Maintenance & Layover Facility within the larger scope of Springfield Area Track...

To be fair, the throat probably is like 65+% of the entire project by itself, and I don't know that you *can* separate it from the overall project or the new street grid which would be pulling double duty as a new interchange/ highway exit. Keep in mind that the existing I-90 ramp structures are...

It might not be attractive, but given where its going? It's probably fine. It's very much on the working side of the complex, and being unobtrusive is probably the name of the game - the focus is likely on the inside. It can't possibly be worse to look at than the Field House it'll be...

In most cases, probably yes. Most every state budget or bond bill is filled with earmarks - while the newspaper headline will be something along the lines of 500M for transportation improvements across the Commonwealth, in practice the legislation has several pages of "provided that not less...

The TN area is also fairly unique in that you guys, by and large, are served by a municipal or cooperative electric utility - the vast vast majority of your power comes from the TVA, which is federally owned and operated. You guys have some of the best utility rates in the country. There's some...

I admittedly live off Mass Ave, but my closest square is Davis. Personally, my opinion is that in developing an urban form, something needs to buck the existing trend for it to become ok, in the same way that The USQ development and tower in Union has. I want Davis to be a vibrant urban...

Can someone please update the embed media approved sites list to include X.com alongside Twitter? Not to comment on Elon, but while editing the domain to Twitter still works, I don't know how long that'll last, and for some things Twitter is still the place for information. (For the future I'd...

In not-stadium news, the team is finally conceding that the name is not-great, and has announced that it's looking for a new name. That said, the announcement is couched in so much Corporate PR-speak so I fear that they'll once again come up with something by committee, and therefore bland and...

I recently learned about the regional park and ride plan being implemented by Intuit Dome, the new home of the LA Clippers. It's basically akin to how Logan Express operates, but using contracted coaches, and it got me thinking about how something like this could work in the Boston Area... And...

Plus, it would create meaningful competition in the space and service (to the landlord) would become the standard. When the person hiring doesn't have to pay, 1 month rent, the legal maximum, is default. When the landlord does pay, it can create models where brokers compete on price or have...

Look, I don't disagree as far as general themes go. Bus service has pretty clearly taken a hit that hasn't been restored yet, but it's hard to get an accurate picture of how much bus service the T is or isn't providing just on the basis of schedule changes, especially as they launch BNRD which...

I realize that MassDOT is planning pretty wide vehicular infrastructure, but given that it's future proofing, I'm not too mad about it -It's width that in the future can be reallocated to transit or other uses that they can't get back if they give it up now. But once again, I'd like to point...

Look, I know this is a subject you care deeply about, so I'm going to point you at another data set. The below is what transit agencies report to the FTA on a monthly basis for the NTD. You'll want to filter it to the MBTA before downloading it, but you can filter mode to MB, Directly Operated...

To be fair, at the moment the T using life-extended/overhauled S&B gates that date to 2006 or so, and at the time AFC 2.0 was anticipated to completely replace all the S&B gates by now with something provided by Cubic. They would have had to somehow either go buy 7 stations worth of legacy...

My understanding of this building, admittedly as someone not part of the BU campus community, is that a) the terraces are mostly actually a green roof with very limited terrace bits with seating and b) the portion that are meant to be more "public" for general student use is the podium section...

Keep in mind also that in a regulated environment, the only way to compete at all was in the passenger experience. If TWA, United, Braniff and Eastern all operated the same route, and it cost the same, the only way to differentiate themselves was in the pax ex. CAB rules limiting routes and...

Just dropping in some updated renders for the above projects: 292 and 294 Baker Ave, NOVO Riverside Residences: Approved and Comp Permit Issued in April. 275 Forest Ridge Road, Residences at Thoreau, 40B New design, up for approval in December. Replaces the faux colonial with a taller...