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It's better than another bank. It'll create foot traffic. There's no parking out front. I doubt it'll have fogged glass, I think these places usually have a kind of lobby area, they'll be doing their best to increase curb appeal. It's a huge upgrade on the liquor store or subway that was there...

Outsourcing, man, it's a huge problem. Institutions think they're streamlining their processes but really they're just burying tons of bureaucracy because no one wants to deal with it. Everything gets gummed up!

Looks like the development on inner belt road opposite the holiday inn in Somerville.

love the typo and correction in this!

Yea, I biked down to REI on Saturday. There were two cars parked in the bike lane, some traffic cones randomly standing around. Wasn't a big deal but it does seem like they were caught off guard re. the opening. Understandable given the short notice. The medford street detour is confusing at the...

took the family for a bike ride along the new path yesterday! It's great. Obviously it was very busy but still, seemed like an excellent facility. I feared it would be too narrow but it seemed fine. The re route around the back of the high school seemed a bit messy but not the worst. I think I'm...

I think Mike Connolly has been very good, he's about the only one who comes out of this mess with any credit. Wait till it gets handed over to the city who say they have to close it for 8 weeks to install extra lights.

yea, seems weird alright, I wonder if there were objections to putting it on a darker solid color background, from an overall aesthetic point of view?

no, not at all. I look at that building and I can see patterns in the window layout. It's not totally random. It wouldn't bother me if it was, It'd likely cost a fortune to build, but it's not. There's a pattern, or an order to it. If you lay those windows out in a grid format. It would look...

It is ordered. Look a bit closer.

I have to admit, I hated the look of this building as it was going up but it's definitely grown on me. At least from the Highland side. I think the new building and renovated building do a great job of connecting the old building and city hall to the library. Add to that the new playground and...

ok, here's a solution, rather than doing piecemeal work here and there, put a proper crew on it and knock it out in a week. Let the city in to do their work at the same time so there's no excuse when the MBTA finally hand it over. Nobody would complain if the path was a hive of construction...

In that case they should probably just shut Highland down.

Maybe, I just find it frustrating when the message is “shut it down ASAP” and not “get it finished ASAP” There just isn’t the political will to get this project finished in any reasonable timeframe.

it's been like that for 2 weeks or more. Why is it just sitting there like that. Why aren't they working on it?

100% kinda shocked at the “This is on the MBTA, we’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas” attitude.

I see they've put up "bike path" signs on the new path. I don't think pedestrians will be encouraged to use it at all. This prob makes sense given the width of it.

and they painted a new tiny cross walk across Chester ave where the Cross st. entrance is. There's no plans for a cross walk across cross street. (say that ten times backwards)

because, given it's location, It's probably the most valuable site in the whole area. I would have thought it would make commercial sense to build over at least part of this

yup. think the inability to get public projects done here is the biggest surprise I've found since moving to the US. And it's not a cash problem or a labor cost issue. As far as I can see, it's bureaucracy gone nuts. We can chat about EMUs or BEMUs till the cows come home, we wont see either...