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Personally, the biggest infrastructure project of 2023 was the opening of the GLX community path. The GLX opening earlier was good but there is an air of 'budget cuts' about that whole project. I wasn't expecting the path to be such a life changer. Before the path, the only way to get from most...

first they take away the cow parking then they put those awful duck lanes everywhere. THEYRE RUINING THE CITY

wait, you want gathering points and concourses in the actual seats???? have you ever been to a football/soccer game? That RB arena is a lovely stadium, prob in the wrong place.

I wasnt proposing the Revs build a 52k stadium... More that Meis did a great job keeping the industrial maritime theme while incorporating a state of the art modern stadium. They have thoughtfully preserved the pump house and dock wall while also rebuilding old dock tram tracks (just...

the new Everton stadium on the banks of the Mersey is a good template for me. There are a lot of similar elements with each site. (down to wind turbines in the background!) Both built in industrial river banks with port infrastructure near by and old industrial architecture on site. Everton have...

Don't get me wrong, I live in East Somerville and love soccer. I'll happily throw my kid up on the bike and head over (tho the thought of riding around that rutherford rotary is always terrifying). I love the idea of a parking free stadium. I just think that in this case, the Revs have spent...

Eh, saw a bit of that MOU online. This jumped out "Parking (and I find this hard to believe). Quoted verbatim for accuracy:Limit their on-site vehicular parking spaces (not including loading docks and similar areas) to 75. A separate agreement between Wynn and the Proponent shall be entered...

yea, this would be excellent. I'm also an Everton fan, Maybe one day I can get water taxis to see both teams! A combination of Chelseas plans for Battersea power station and Evertons Bramley moor dock, with a capacity of 25-30K would be great!

Right. The pedestrian bridge will likely happen. Then you have walking access to Assembly and Sullivan. Prob a short shuttle from Wellington. Then you could run the silver line right by it without too much trouble. Throw in some water transit up the mystic. I'd be more concerned about cars. The...

This makes perfect sense, get it done. Stick in a silver line option and build the footbridge to Assembly. Run game day ferries from down town to Encore. Could end up being a great sport/entertainment district. And much cleaner and better looking than what is/was there. do it!

It's not. Like I said, the CR seems to be running fine, same project. Did they use inferior tracks on one side and good ones on the other? Seems to me like box ticking bureaucracy gone mad. So and so wont sign off on x till y and z happens but y and z need to convene sub committees and need to...

weird watching the E line slow to an absolute crawl to cross the Washington st. Bridge. What was even weirder was watching the heavier, bigger, older diesel commuter rail train go across the same bridge in the opposite direction at normal speed. Both new tracks, laid at roughly the same time...

I mean it's a fairly bland ugly building but I dont really have a problem with the height. Seems pretty clear they don't want to cast shadows over the park. Also the height seems to be increasing from west to east.

here's a pet peeve. I cant un see it. There's advertising for the development on the site fencing and they're dubbing it 'The axis of something and something', maybe 'innovation' and 'community'. Either way, is it just me or is that terrible English, especially for a science lab? Maybe the...

all those black vents (dryer vents?) look weird. Why black? at a glance they look like anchors for balconies that never got placed. Strange choice.

so in 2010, the Boston population was 617K... cool :)

ok, maybe there was a touch of hyperbole when I suggested that no one would build any residential, I would have thought that was obvious tongue n' cheek. I'm also not proposing that cities should ignore residential. I'm just pointing out, that in the post covid age of working from home, lab...

yea, I tend to take this view. In the work from home era, Lab space is really the only major thing drawing people in to work in the urban core. If/when the lab bubble bursts, they're not going to start constructing tonnes of new residential in it's place. They're not going to construct new...

a matte finished Ferrari. why would you do that??! :)

Yeah, I'm torn. It's a mess but I live right beside it and I'm happy for the traffic to pass 20 feet up and not at street level. I don't really want a ton more traffic idling at red lights while, as a pedestrian I have to navigate more lanes of traffic to get from East to Union. Aesthetically...