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    MBTA Construction Projects

    I want to see more integration between subway stations and adjacent buildings. For example, renewing the connections between Downtown Crossing and the commercial spaces adjoining the shopping arcade. Incorporating entries into buildings instead of dumping patrons directly in the middle of the...
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    MBTA Construction Projects

    They shrank the lay down area today. I haven’t noticed burn in testing for the elevator yet, though. I would guess mid-to-late June.
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    Freight and General New England RR News

    Preferred Freezer Services according to street view.
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    Freight and General New England RR News

    Tonight was the first time I can recall seeing a plate F freight running down the Lowell line, alongside the GLX. It looked like a couple of pairs of reefers mixed with gondolas. Is the Produce Center taking rail cars?
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    I would want to see the Reformatory Branch get a smoother stone dust surface, if that would work under the MAAB standards. However, it’s all moot because the town gave up after the second vote.
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    Funny how the design change which works elsewhere in the world has the least support.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    I expect that folks near the Reformatory Branch Trail look at that image as a near miss. I look at it and see what could have been.
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    Copley Square Revamp | Back Bay

    The Globe is pretty clearly in the anybody-but-Wu camp.
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    Acela & Amtrak NEC (HSR BOS-NYP-WAS and branches only)

    The whole point was to sandbag mass transit in favor of private transportation (personal vehicles, personal people movers, etc)
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    Copley Square Revamp | Back Bay

    Side note: It’s shocking how bad street view from 2007 looks now. I remember being amazed at the time, but it’s unusably muddy now.
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    Clarendon Hill Redevelopment | 34 North Street | Somerville

    I saw that the crane was gone when I rode the bus past it on Monday.
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    Massachusetts 2026 Gubernatorial Race

    Oh good…. The Pioneer Institute has been heard from.
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    Medford, MA Infill and Small Developments

    Medford is still paying for the Boston and Lowell RR being laid out to deliberately avoid population centers.
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    Medford, MA Infill and Small Developments

    Ebisuya is also closing because its building is slated for redevelopment. That’s a lot of change coming to Medford Square
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    2025 Boston Mayoral Race

    Houton is the old school Ray Flynn style Dem.

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