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I work nearby in the CIC near "galaxy square". I've gotta say, I'm so excited for this building. Kendall Square is a huge deal, truly influential on a global scale. It should have buildings that make it feel like a huge deal, rather than just some mid-sized sized city's downtown or some...

Jane Jacobs argues this point in Death and Life. ie, the safest streets are in dense neighborhoods of people who feel a sense of duty to look out for one another. I don't have data to corroborate (and if I did, I wouldn't know how to disentangle it from income disparity).

Nope, not the only way. You can one-way the steets (just for auto traffic) in an alternating pattern, making the grid inefficient for cars to navigate but efficient for pedestrians and bicycles. Many Boston-area neighborhoods do this to a limited extent, particularly East Somerville. It rocks.

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but as a frequent GLX rider, I would rather any significant funding be put towards a Mystic Valley Pkwy stop, headway improvements, or better predictions for announcing scheduled inbound trains. Waiting in the cold isn't so bad if I know how long I'm...

Interesting. Ed Flynn has proudly gone on record as being "opposed to bike lanes on main streets and commercial roads", as recently as May 2024. I guess not everyone fits into either a pro- or anti-urbanism box.

Kendall Common from above, feat. 585 Third St in the background.

This didn't seem to fix the problem for SF

I've said it before in this thread, but I'll say it again. This type of thinking: > Oh, so you want to be a car-dependent exurb? Then we're going to take away your rail service! Take that! is just bad game theory.

Guys, we don't care who's right. We don't come here to read arguments. Take five, please. Anyway, 2024.12.22 peeking over MGH from the train at Science Park, on my way to the Amtrak to see my family for the holidays. Sorry for the terrible quality.

Yeah. Also spaces for musicians and artists. Newmarket seems to be filling this need in a big way. Are there cities where this sort of light industry extists under or next to housing? Does it all have to squirreled away in the margins of the city? I get that noise is an issue, but I know plenty...

NIMBYs: "We should just get cheese pizza because that's the only one everybody can agree on."

Yeah, these guys have been at Ball Sq from time to time. Every time, I walk by them, they ask something like "do you know how to validate your fare with your Charlie Card?", I respond "I'm paying on the train with my credit card", they say "OK, make sure you do that" and I say "Yup." No big...

Yup, having talked to some of the Lyndell's staff, they say the same. The development will also consume the bakery's current parking lot.

Potentially obnoxiously optimistic, but it's possible that the threat of federal funding disappearing is exactly what states like MA need in order to implement serious, long-term sustainable, state-level transit funding measures like congestion tolling, such that when federal funds eventually do...

Housing is likely to replace stalled labs in Davis, with 2028 the soonest apartments would arrive

Yorkville in Manhattan has all of those beat with a density north of 150k per square mile. It looks to me like it started with the urban fabric of the South End (5 story rowhouses on small, narrow lots in a tight street grid), and while many of those mid rises are still there, it's grown up with...

It just occurred to me after all this time that Compass Rail is a pun on Commonwealth Passenger Rail.

You don't sound nearly as smart or funny as you think you do. Look, if we all just left snarky angry comments on every other thread, this site would be a cesspit. If you have somthing interesting to say about a project, say it, but otherwise please chill out, or maybe direct your attitude at...

Eh, the lack of good overhead shelter and accessibility on so many of those is unacceptable. Otherwise, agreed. The GLX stations are fine. The worst thing about outdoor stations is waiting in the elements. If reducing the capital and maintenance costs of stations means that more money is...

For anyone else wondering, I guess MMBF is Mean Miles Before Failure. https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/server/api/core/bitstreams/2b318e8a-b5cd-455e-ac34-74f2cc0102d1/content