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We just gotta turn up the heat on the Green Line Transformation! Lots of good (and needed) LRT for the MBTA to shop at in our Design a Better Boston threads ;)

Absolutely. The exterior aesthetics of school construction is one of the first things that is axed. Especially on a site with challenging engineering like SHS.

Yeah. HVAC systems historically get scrimped on as well as typical fixtures and stuff like that. MSBA also got a lot stricter after the Newton North fiasco when the city basically kitted the school out with all sorts of extra bells and whistles at the state's expense. I'd say costs are...

I don't think we need to be jealous of LA. It's embarrassing that the 2nd largest city in the country has such poor transit that they're only now catapulting ahead of Boston.

They definitely won't be teardowns. These buildings are, for the most part, built with growth in mind.

It's a fairly common conservative/libertarian argument that Federally-backed student loans are the primary cause of price inflation at colleges and universities.

Could be on my end, but all the pics you posted today @F-Line to Dudley are broken.

Works for me. Takes me to jdr's post of Raffles pics.

Congrats to Peter Chung who is MassBike's Advocate of the Year! He's pretty prolific with organizing and calling out the city. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2020/12/27/meet-peter-cheung-massbikes-advocate-of-the-year/

But... don't deny the data because it runs through a middleman. It's possible for both sets of data presented to be true. You're just going out of your way to downplay the current COVID spike.

Not sure why you question the above hospital info. It's from HHS which reports hospital self-assessment.

The costs to ratepayers make it pretty unattractive even though it's aesthetically more pleasing and better for long-term maintenance. I'd love it if utility companies did this more.

Apparently. 2-year moratorium.

Good for Saugus for building this sort of housing. That said I don't envy the folks who will live here.

This makes a lot of hay, but also MSAs are a really arbitrary and inconsistent measure. Using CSAs, which are also wonky measures, Boston is still 6th. Boston's MSA excludes Worcester and Providence (including the commuter towns in Bristol County), but does include counties in New Hampshire.

While the media is loath to describe him as such, the suicide bomber had some delusions of grandeur. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-bomber-told-his-neighbor-attack-world-never-going-forget-n1252468

So, in other words, don't expect anything mind-breaking from the Great and General Court anytime soon.

Some new pics here

The deal is supposedly done. We shall all find out soon the impacts on the UK economy and society. When does Scotland exit? When does Ireland unify? This seems like the "end of the beginning." For what it's worth, I get a lot of my Brexit news and thought from (firmly in the "Brexit was a bad...

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping is one of the most majestic political faux pas to happen in the modern era.