Search results

As a Lowell Line rider that occastionally attends Celtics games, this feels like a win for me. My AM commute train is 10 minutes earlier, but that makes my connection to the "once every 20" ferry tighter to save me about 10 minutes in the morning. Of course, the evening departure changes add...

Maybe someone's been checking our own vanshnookenraggen's excellent maps: https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/2018/03/the-future-of-the-green-line-from-harvard-and-needham-to-the-seaport/

Looks like today is the last CSX run to Peabody, MA. Photos are circulating of a Pan Am Railways (#516, IIRC) decorated with a placard on the front noting the "Last Run to Peabody"

The wording of the ad is confusing. It's trying to say that "rail with trail" is a fantasy, but to me it reads like it's saying that the fantasy is that rail-with-trail is not feasible.

Sorry for the very late reply, but in the case of the southern half of Beacon Hill, this is almost reversing the previous trend of SF to MF conversions. In the early 2000's, my wife and I looked at an apartment on Mt. Vernon Street. It was clearly the first floor of an old mansion that had...

As a former downtown dad, I'm also a bit of a playground aficionado. My general observation is that many of them are built for extremely small children, and that it's much harder to find something with the level of "excitement" that my kid wanted once he got past first or second grade. We...

Here's more, thanks to "the Google". The area was originally owned by the Winship family and appeared to be known as Winship Gardens and/or Winship Nursery. The land was sold in the 1840's and subdivided in the 1850's. As one can see from the map and plan here, Wexford Street was originally...

Depends on where you live and who your landlord is. My second-to-last apartment in Boston raised rent 2% over 4 years (floor through walkup w/roofdeck & parking in Back Bay, but individual landlord) and my last apartment raised it 23% after one year (Longfellow Place). We ended up signing...

I've been forum member for a while now, and remember when it seemed like the number of "recently updated" threads on new development numbered a small handful. Over the past decade, that list has grown and now it's almost impossible to keep up with everything, good and bad. However, it's also...

Due to my discovery of the ferry from N. Station to the Seaport, it's been a while since I walked through the area, but I was impressed by the progress in the garage demolition. Slow and steady, I guess.

From the Seaport Blvd. Bridge last night:

It's also a lot easier on the wayward boat. I'll take a closer look next time I ride through on the ferry. They look like timber to me, but now I'm having my doubts.

I'm sure these are the same people that voted down the previous Civco proposal next to the Commuter rail station. This is the view they're talking about...

Tell me you have an anti-rail bias without telling me you have an anti-rail bias. We all know that railroads, and specifically their local passenger operations, weren't invented until the 1950's. We also know that the demographics of the working classes has changed since then, and that...

I can't read the article, as someone that commuted from Beacon Hill to Watertown Square, I would have loved a water shuttle for that route vs. getting hung up in traffic on one of the various bus routes. Currently, I've eliminated the subway from the North Station to seaport leg of my commute...

For me? Schools, family, and human rights. I can't speak for anyone else, though. Totally agree on this. When I was downtown, most of the "rich folk" I knew simply walked to work. If we want congestion pricing, we need to make sure that significantly improved transportation options are...

Yeah, I didn't know about that situation until recently. With the projected timeline to re-open, they might as well throw in a Blue Line extension too.

(click image to enlarge)

It's the transit corollary to "the beatings will continue until morale improves". i.e. Service will be cut until revenue improves. Semi-related, I'll be curious to see what, if any, effect on ridership the $2.40 fares for Newburyport/Rockport CR will have during the Sumner closures.

Tell me your road planner plays Cities: Skylines without telling me the play Cities: Skylines.