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My twelve year old almost had another round of broken arms after ditching his bike in one of these in our neighborhood (side streets) in Winchester. Fortunately just had bruises and scrapes. When our road was repaved recently, I was pleased to see that the grates were replaced with more...

What I will keep lobbying for is GLX to Mystic Valley Parkway Woburn! --- Fixed that for you! ;)

Not going to lie. Trying to work at home while the family is here and remote schooling is going on makes me wish for some long commute in a quiet rail car. In all seriousness though, it might not be a bad option for a day or few a week kind of work where time on the train could be productive...

I'd call myself semi-casual. I've ridden from North Station to Concord and back several times, but I also have a strong aversion to street riding. I'll be coming from Winchester, so my plan would be to take the Minuteman to Alewife, and depending on how I'm feeling, either working to the river...

I plan to make the path part of my future bike commute to the Kendall Square area. I have no desire to be an "elite" bike commuter, so a more relaxing path with some interesting topography sounds great to me.

Totally agree. I was surprised by the number of people that actually do that commute. Here's info from a 2017 study: https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/documents/ec-0220.pdf 15.3% (about 100k) of NH workers commuted to MA 12% of those (12k) commute to Boston

Rebuild the rail corridor as trucks + trains, ensure connection to Seaport industry, extend to Conley, and problem solved. Yeah, I know it's not feasible or remotely likely, but I can dream, can't I?

I never lived on that side of campus, but I did take advantage of that hill for sledding many, many times. Hopefully that use won't be precluded by this construction.

Yeah, I misread it. The overhead was to support RL to Lexington & Waltham via Lexington Branch and Fitchburg ROWs from Alewife Brook Parkway and the GL would use the Fitchburg ROW between Lechmere and Alewife Brook Parkway.

I covered a lot of Google ground in my search but I do recall a doc somewhere stating an Alternative for Red Line beyond Harvard should include overhead wires to support above-ground running and Lechmere cars.

Finally, here's a doc containing summaries of many of the reports from each year: https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/259668/ocm39986874-1958-SB-0585.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

In one of the disregarded alternatives, which was a double deck structure along Atlantic Avenue, they note that the recently removed structure had improved property values and that adding a new one would certainly depress property values.

For those interested, here's the proposed map from the 1947 report:

That document is a gold mine. The opening paragraph of page 96 says it all for me: Here's a link the Metropolitan Transit Recess Commission doc: https://archive.org/details/reportofmetropol00mass_1/page/14/mode/2up. Clearly the transit and highway plans were made to complement each other to...

I learned most of the street layout in the city by walking. I'd also look at maps and generate a mental image of where important highways and landmarks were. However, the most effective way was to just get in the car and drive, which I'd do nearly every Saturday. I'd drive around, get lost...

I don't pay too much attention to the sign, but I do drive by it or ride into N. Station on the train almost daily and it seems to generally be advertising upcoming concerts or games at the Garden.

I lived about a mile from there for several years and consider that entire stretch of Rt 1 to be depressing, so this fits in perfectly. I'd love to see what the $3,400 units looks like.

My poorly made point was that SF demolished its station and replaced it something barely better than a "bland urban renewal box". We're fortunate that didn't happen here.

I'm in San Francisco Bay area for work this week and took my first jaunt into SF via Caltrain. The "train station" in San Francisco is a vision of what might have come to pass in Boston.

I have nothing to add, except that during a business trip in the early 2000's, I had the pleasure of having a Singapore Sling at said bar. I remember the bar/hotel itself far more than the drink.