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Am working on a cleanroom where we actually are venting like 40000 cfm of air through return panels in relatively small voids we are building around existing columns. No idea if that actually prevents grime buildup on the ceiling and obviously you’d a retrofit like that is not worth it or...

Good to know, I see people foaming over a Tobin bridge extension occasionally and that gets me excited too about the idea. But there’s probably much more sensible ways to do that lol

Weird question — the north station incline to science park is actually four tracks wide towards the bottom. There’s two tracks that appear to dip under but just end at a wall. Are those storage tracks or are they actually a provision for service points east?

Honestly while the decision is of course stupid and does endanger me personally as someone who bikes down one of these streets to commute I don’t find it surprising. Part of why I decided to stay in Boston after school was reading local Facebook groups from my hometown — I encourage other...

So they built the equivalent of a GLX in a couple weeks? /s

I agree that if we weren't going to get Byford it seems like he is the best we could get. Unfortunately NY transit people do not care about cost, they have the same blinders our guys do on that front. Maybe one day Transit Matters will see the light on cost disease and start pushing that... but...

These planks around planted trees, do ther actually work to hold it up? Seems so odd and I see it a lot

I suppose the pertinent question would be, two side running bus lanes on the bridge that merge into that narrow intersection over there probably don't do much for the slowness which is caused by the traffic in the area, and the lack of lanes, etc.. You'd want it to connect to something in my...

Hard to express how gigantic these guys are in real life. Huge improvement

Doubly depressing that we simultaneously see cost as impossible to tackle and also use it as a justification for not doing things. Someone should sit the wise Secretary in front of the Transit Costs report and ask her to summarize what it says. Truly infrastructure projects are just for...

Rather than encouraging/discouraging uses by limiting them directly let’s just use design guidelines instead. Residential? Any density, glass and steel if you want. Labs and offices? Well we don’t like those, so has to be masonry and you need cornices. Self storage, auto repair shops? Full blown...

More bikes than cars out today on Cambridge St in Cambridge. I was just in a queue of 10 bikes and we were all weaving cars parked in the bike lane. And to think they want to not have a lane on this road. (Note; not the one in Allston, or the one in Boston, or the one in Charlestown)

Speaking of who might have her ear, I think Jim Aloisi the former esteemed secretary is a transit head. Unfortunately he doesn’t read this forum.

I guess it's interesting that the Secretary feels commuter rail tracks are a black hole of sorts but not the highway and the stroads. But at least it seems like she gets it a little more than the engineers do. Excited to see what's next

Good points all around!

Or maybe another way to put it would be, buses in mixed traffic leave pretty much nobody satisfied. Here we are zig zagging and arguing over adding bus lanes in places. (Also known as Uber eats parking lots). If we could just sprinkle on grade separated transit in some kind of direct routing...

What I mean is that you are basically forced to use those stops in order to get to service to points east or to the green line. So yes there’s tons of ridership. You’re not alighting with the goal of hanging out in that neighborhood. In a perfect world with a better street layout the bus would...

it’s always struck me that the portion of Brighton Ave that the 66 uses isn’t exactly the cradle of civilization. You can go to Blanchards or TITS, not much really. If you’re trying to make a trip to BU or points East from there it’s faster to walk than wait 20 minutes for a 57 bus connection...

It’s like they are bending the existing service to fit what’s convenient to them rather than designing the plan around what makes sense.

I would encourage people to continue to press the project team and whatever representatives seem to have responsive offices about this. If only to make the engineers answer questions they’re not comfortable answering. Worth noting that I was polite but firm in my email, I assume they trash...