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They are always designed with drains and sub drains (at least it would be crazy not to). The problem is often the drainage path. Long-term concrete deflections can sometimes counteract that path, leading to ponding. This can of course be prevented with meticulous design and construction...

As a structural engineer, there’s nothing I hate more than planters on concrete! They always hold water and often it has nowhere to go but through the concrete, leading to expensive repairs over time.

Copying Riverside’s post from Green Line Reconfiguration, who drew the southie urban ring idea up nicely

I recall some sketches being posted previously in this board of an alternate urban ring route that would loop over to Broadway from Albany St/Mass Pike. The route could utilize the old trolley tunnel, then somehow hop over to the Bypass route into Seaport. This routing would make a lot of sense...

Perhaps Hanscom could serve as a reliever airport? With a potential red line connection some distance into the future, it doesn’t seem like the worst idea. Plus it’s owned by Massport

Is Francis St too narrow for Cut and Cover? Of course there will be difficulties with partially shutting down a street in front of a hospital, at least Fenwood rd could provide some relief being closely parallel with 3 connecting streets.

It would be great if we had a spider map with all of the proposals from the Green Line Reconfiguration thread, similar to Van's map in the link. That plus other heavy rail extensions would definitely win, it'd at least have my vote! It would also be really cool to communicate our ideas to the...

Admittedly, the GJ is supposed to serve as a part of an orbital line and a line that serves West Station, Kendall, Sullivan, and Chelsea. It can be both, which sort of makes it a compromise but also a useful and underutilized asset since it just happens to already be there. While having...

What I got from her comments was that there certainly will be expansion to the overall system. That, as well as the many required projects to bring the system to a state of good repair, will certainly keep the agency busy. No project experience is bad experience, whether it be transit extensions...

She sort of pours cold water on any sort of expansion projects in the near future. She makes it clear she is for bus expansion and possibly commuter rail electrification (long-term project). This doesn’t bode well for any sort of expansion plans proposed on this board, but I think it is...

Good critique of the Type 10 design and American transit car design in general by RMTransit. I would think this kind of change would need to be demanded by the riding public, as it seems like agencies would be less inclined to changing the general maintenance procedures of their vehicles.

The new Amtrak passenger trains coming soon to the Downeaster will at least have larger windows than the current ones. Although I don’t believe Amtrak has any single-deck view cars, they do have a superliner view car on western routes, which wouldn’t be compatible with DE route due to high level...

It being a pilot program allows the city a sort of “back door” to even making it a reality. It’s a risky proposition because you bypass the neighborhood input, which brought the previously proposed center-running bus lanes on Summer st down. However, When it comes time to make it permanent...

The trucks need to drive on Summer St between Haul Rd and the Conley Terminal. Around 9am, traffic turns into a nightmare as the container trucks and Fed Ex fleet are turning out in full force. I think it makes sense to allow large trucks in the lanes, at least for the pilot program. Let’s hope...

To this point, one thing I've been thinking about recently is using the small maintenance yard adjacent to the Fenway stop for this. With a little reconfiguration of the station, it looks like there might be enough room for some sort of flying junction, or at-grade if it isn't too detrimental...

True, the new station renderings do look nice. I was saying that more as an example of a starker divide, where the viaduct cuts right through the core. The one in Waltham would be more adjacent.

The more I think about it, the more I believe a Waltham viaduct may be able to complement the village square well. It doesn’t necessarily need to be an imposing divide like Winchester. I think you can genuinely create good storefront use out of it, as Ratmeister has posted in another thread. The...

There are certainly still avenues for legal action against contractors, testing agencies, consultants, etc.

Bus lanes would be appreciated in this redesign. Plus the big yellow parcel where the top of the old port parking currently is would be a great location for a new bus hub, which metro has stated they would like to see in their long term plans.

True, I’m forgetting we are in design a better Boston, but I am definitely speaking to what I see as the most realistic replacement option. I’m not saying there can’t be a creative option mentioned here with those parameters. I’m just saying that plopping a greenfield highway ROW less than 3...