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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/22/metro/mbta-delays-safety-problems-philip-eng-gov-healey/ Looks like an unannounced safety stand-down happened this week.

Most Chelsea residents don't work in Kendall, though. They work blue- and pink-collar jobs downtown, in hospitals and industrial areas, and at the airport. It doesn't do them much good to make their commutes longer when, to @Teban54's point, they'll get Kendall connectivity through the SL3...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/09/20/massdot-starts-planning-for-tobin-bridge-replacement Looks like it's time to revive our earlier discussion of just what you could do with a project like this...

Looks like this idea might have more legs than the 700-foot skyscraper originally enjoyed. @Boston35 caught this and shared it in a different thread:

It's funny you say winter feels like a "terror." Maybe it's because I was in my teens and 20s when I lived there, but other than the 4 p.m. sunsets and learning to cover my face once it got below 25 degrees, it was still pretty fun? Things like the Loppet race and the Art Shanties still kept the...

My recollection from living there was that you find better pedestrian experiences in the neighborhoods -- Northeast, Linden Hills, Lake Street, Cathedral Hill in St. Paul -- but there's no getting away from the fact that it's a Midwestern city that took advantage of all the elbow room they had...

A follow-up. I looked more closely at the Staniford/Green Street junction and there's no two ways about it: You have to eminent domain at least the north-east corner building owned by an "M. & E. Kern" to make this work, if not the next-door "Boston S.D. & Tr. Ca."-owned building. I wonder if...

Same! Looking at the 1938 Bromley map, I'd guess this is how they'd do it -- I *think* there's just enough distance between Levrett Circle and Nashua Street to get underground, if you use the Canal Street Incline as a template -- they might have been tempted to do an Brattle Loop-style, set of...

Some big yikes: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/13/metro/t-acknowledges-three-new-near-misses-this-summer-after-feds-rapped-agency-sloppy-safety/

I guess One Congress "officially" opened today. The Boston Business Journal has a slideshow of the (pretty big-looking) club or whatever it is that the captions say is for workers in the building to use...

I was just thinking the start-stop nature of such a service. I guess steam is better at that than I had imagined.

How on earth do you do that with a steam-hauled train??

In a similar vein, I'd be really curious to know how deep the consultation was with BTD below senior levels. Does this reflect their institutional input and priorities regarding bike networks, in particular, beyond what the head (who was generally well-known in transit and bike circles before...

Boston Planning & Development Agency planners, as seems to be their wont (sorry, folks - if the shoe fits...) threw a bunch of wild-eyed, long-term transit visioning into the latest East Boston rezoning study, including this crayon of alternatives for extending the Blue Line: FYI: If you see...

I do suspect the ability to sidestep any lengthy public engagement process about a permanent change is what's driving a lot of these "pilot" decisions. Not everyone is as brave as Jay Monti in Everett (Mr. "The Pilot Is the Process" regarding the Broadway bus lanes) but the sentiment is there...

The small size of that parcel feels noteworthy. Most ground-up labs have had pretty big floorplates, for various reasons.

A few Cape legislators are also raising the topic of adding a lot more Boston <> Hyannis and restarting Boston <> Falmouth trips. I also shared this in the commuter rail thread:

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD4555 Rep. Dylan Fernandes (an up-and-commer, plus the Islands' rep) and the two state reps who cover Sagamore, Sandwich, Barnstable and Hyannis are trying to raise the issue of launching commuter service to the Cape. Some key bits: We'll see if it even...

I don't think so. When I was crossing the bridge Monday morning it had workers moving around on it.

It gets better (or worse). On the wall of that overpass abuttment facing towards Lomasney Way, is inscribed that famous boast about the West End: "The Greatest Neighborhood This Side of Heaven." I say worse because, in context, surrounded by busted-up sidewalks, roaring traffic on the street...