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NIMBYism aside, @Charlie_mta , if you were Supreme Dictator of the Commonwealth, are there any Boston-area highway expansions that you think would be worth doing? Or would all your highway pitches be road diets and transit/bike conversions?

That's cool, dude. I would like that, and personally, I would also like a rail tunnel under the Atlantic. But, please come back to our real world where MassDOT has a total of $16B to spend over the next five years and $12B (!!!!) of that is already going to roads. Your 8-mile...

Just for nerdy reasons I really really wish there was an objective way to measure "urban population size". Basically what you're doing here (manually drawing polygons based around areas dense-enough to warrant trams, I assume) but with an objective formula. I'd love to be able to compare and...

Wait, you want to spend SEVERAL BILLION dollars tunneling under Cambridge so that people can... drive their cars into Boston more easily? I thought we were past this on aB, but, this is straight up one more lane bro territory. I drive through Concord Turnpike / Alewife Brook Parkway interchange...

Based on this guy's posts in other threads I recommend ignoring him rather than engaging.

Nice! I think I'd move the Lincoln Sq yellow stop a block or two to the south, closer to the Abbey and other downtown goodness. Maybe, one day, Lincoln Sq could be a place worth walking around (esp if they do something creative with the Aud) but at the moment it's just an autombile wasteland...

Not sure. I ride the GLX daily but I'm rarely on the western branches.

There's a new automated announcement on the GLX reminding riders that they can tap to pay on the trains (and warning them that they will accidentally pay if they stand too close to the readers).

Yeah. My sense is that the GL-A branch restoration, if it ever happens, would just be an incremental improvement to what the 57 does now: local service for Brighton. Past St. E's, it would certainly require sacrificing at least one of: parking, 2-away auto traffic, bike lanes. I still think...

OK, I'm with you on the idea that more WFH would give more leverage to the buyers/renters who are no longer location-constrained, which should lower prices some amount. That said, I'm not convinced that it'd move the needle enough to make it worth for the state to put its thumb on the scale...

From the GLR thread I gathered that the flat junction at Copley is a big issue for GL trunk frequency. I assume that Bay Village would be a flying junction.

@Teban54 's green line reconfig map suggests that the some northside Green Line trains would use Park St outer tracks to continue up through the Pleasant St incline (near Bay Village) and continue to an el from South Bay, over 93, then over Melnea Cass, to Nubian. The key idea here is that...

Melnea Cass jumps to mind. And maybe 93 from Widdett to South Bay, depending how you want to route the ring through Southie/Seaport.

Here the Pike's Place Market Master Plan: https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/01.-PPM-Master-Plan_Draft-for-Approval_3.26.2024-compressed.pdf No specific threshold, but it repeatedly states that DEI is an explicit goal when choosing vendors. It also mentions that the 2023...

@HenryAlan 's stat was that 90% of the contracts went to white males. The US population in 1980 was not 90% white males 🙂 (It wasn't 90% white either, only 80%, but that's beside the point.) My point was that the 60% threshold sounds way too high until you realize that it's inclusive of...

In MA, over the next 5 years we need something like 40k home per year *to keep pace with demand* . Right now we're under 20k/yr. We could double housing production it would keep home prices *stable*, not decrease the average home value. No, middle class MA homeowners are not at risk of their...

Piling on... in the past 5 years, Brockton housing prices have gone up 50%, Lowell 57%, and Fall River 70%. It's not just Boston and the suburbs that are unaffordable, it's the "gateway" cities too, which were called such because they were supposed to be an affordable gateway into the middle...

Without making any comments as to whether or not 60% is the right number, just some quick stats: Women+minorities make up 75% of Boston residents, 65% of MA residents Women make up 40% of MA business owners Minorities make up 15% of MA business owners. Following from the above, women+minorities...

After being closed since 2021, the Winchester CR Station partially reopens on Sep 30 and will be accessible.

14 units, commercial space, and no off-street parking. Nice.