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And also unlock 85 acres of land that could wind up getting developed into Boston's third satellite downtown (after Sullivan Square and the JFK/UMass-Andrew blob).

Capella Tower: the Phil Mickelson of skylines.

Auckland, NZ (pop. 1.7M) runs their entire regional rail service (largely 3 trains/hour) on narrow-gauge EMUs due to a quirk of history and is currently carrying 45,000 to 50,000 passengers daily on a weekday (and a pre-pandemic high of around 2.1M monthly trips) across their two-and-a-half...

@ritchiew's post about the Cape bridges reminded me of a cross-canal rail scheme I doodled a few years back after a weekend trip left me spending way too much time stuck in bridge traffic. This is more for illustrative purposes (for example, it makes liberal use of highway medians and there are...

Some of it's down to serious difficulties getting financing, but also there's a lot of fear out there we could still be in for a recession -- and if you bring a big, expensive-to-rent apartment block online in the teeth of a downturn, you're going to be in some definite financial jeopardy. In...

It does certainly seem like, one way or the other, you've got to go up or down from the Red Line mezzanine, vs a horizontal move. I agree that a Park-style cross-track ped access point feels like an incident waiting to happen. Here are the different stairs and elevator shafts that currently...

I saw that, but is that really workable? That'd force all pax to go up to street level to change between the three lines that would be intersecting there because those GL tunnels would wipe out the lobby-level connection to the Red Line. Alternately, I suppose you could make the transfer via a...

That makes sense. I've also read reporting that it was also a change in the atmosphere (or the perception of the atmosphere) at City Hall -- that developers were more willing to jump into the pool because they perceived a friendlier reception waiting for them, regardless of whether or not that...

This brings up a concern I've started to have about schemes to run the Green Line through Porter: How on earth are you going to connect it to the existing Red Line station, and offer a behind-the-fare-gate transfer? On the latter, I guess I can accept waving away the question of rotating the...

Another argument in favor of the Watertown branch -- it connects three life science hubs (East Watertown, Alewife and East Cambridge, near enough to Kendall).

Flood mitigation would make sense. That stretch is perennially swamped at high tide during storms.

Also, don't forget about the planned T7 high-frequency route connecting Sullivan, this project, North Station, South Station, the Seaport and City Point.

Unfortunately between still-high demand for construction services (meaning contractors can get away with charging an arm and a leg sometimes) and stabilized-but-not-deflating construction materials costs (remember: they jumped up a bunch during the pandemic), buildings cost a lot more to put up...

Car! Floats! Car! Floats! Hy-dro-foil! Car floats! (sorry)

I wonder if it's just a practicality thing. Timber is a lot easier to replace in the event of a wayward boat than concrete.

Yesterday's "Getting There" newsletter from the Globe included a note that apparently the Army Corps of Engineers hasn't been terribly responsive to efforts to do as little as boost CapeFlyer service (The Cape Rail study from 2021 essentially says they need to be brought on board to increase...

That really adds to my conviction that any quality urban ring service won't occur until those oil terminals upstream of the current bridge are decommissioned and the area removed from the Designated Port Area.

A pigeon display case if they're not going to seal off the bottom of the glass curtain wall...

Maybe someone at the T is planning a quick trip down to Fall River and a more emphatic way of protecting bus lanes from intrusion by drivers.

Off-topic from your interesting points, but this reminds me of a small detail where I've started to question most sketches on here how to complete the final UR Chelsea>>Airport leg. If the Coughlin Bypass is now firmly necessary to keep truck traffic out of the Day Square/Eagle Square chaos...