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Please. The problem has more to do with murder. That land should be no less valuable than Jamaica Plain, where a single condo in a three decker can set you back $250K. It's the proximity to people walking around with loaded guns in their waistbands that prevents that lower Roxbury strip from...

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And privatize public transportation? Believe it or not, there was a time when neither highways nor 'public' transportation was paid for by the government. "Highways" were built by private investors, and service transportation was owned by private companies. In time, the public benefit of...

How can you possibly build a good school without curved walls? A generation of children will be doomed to illiteracy without curved walls. Damn those Tory toffs!

So what do you suggest - adding five more spokes of trains? The cost of the very 'problem' you cite would be Big Dig-worthy. Come back from public transportation fantasy-land. You're never going to provide every citizen with a 10 minute trip to downtown. After a certain level of spending, your...

People don't take mass transit for various reasons - many have very good reasons to stay in their cars, and out of public transportation. When I drove from my house in Dedham to UMASS-Boston, I could have walked half a mile, got on a bus near Walcott sq, transferred to the Orange Line at Forest...

Charles - I was going to ask you about this. I didnt' know you followed this forum. I noticed that you've got a spam post in the comments of your blog post on this store.

The CG is good where it is. There is no burning need for more high end condos on the waterfront.

Please stop being so rational. You ruin the pleasure of paranoia felt by so many.

I-95 was intended to bring traffic through Boston as much as too it. They're called interstate highways for a reason. The shortest route between two points is a straight line. Forcing north-south traffic around Boston on 128 was an inefficient way to move traffic around. It also saved big strips...

There was a fire house that faced out on Warren, just across an alley from the back of the church.

Re: Dudley Sq's Ferdinand Building to be Restored/ Renovated That was the northbound track. The southbound track stayed on Washington st.

Re: Dudley Sq's Ferdinand Building to be Restored/ Renovated Great B&W photo above. Here's Warren and Washington sts, 1899.

Re: Dudley Sq's Ferdinand Building to be Restored/ Renovated If that what it takes to 'preserve' the building, it seems like it would be easier to just tear the damn thing down and rebuild a replica from scratch. It looks like someone is trying to convince himself that he's 'saving' the old...

When all the jobs left years ago, and you're in the middle of nowhere, what are you supposed to do? Mills were built there because the river was there. Rivers are no longer used for power, so there's no need for the mills and no need for the town. And you can't develop your way into a thriving...

Before the wings were added to the State House, there was a street called Hancock ave that ran between Beacon street to Mount Vernon. Hancock ave had row houses on it that faced the State House. When the added the wings, they took the part of Hancock that was in the way, including the houses...

So you think trackless trolleys aren't polluting? Where do you think the power comes from? Running vehicles from a distant power plant guarantees transmission losses - that's wasted energy for every mile traveled. Today's natural gas buses are far more environmentally friendly than the old...

No, I wasn't trolling. That's a typical internet-coward's way of shutting down discussion. I stated a simple fact - Democrats run this state, and any existing problem is in their laps. No one who responded to me actually gave a response to that fact. I didn't say anything about other states -...

Those gerbil tubes were a godsend during much of the school year when I was there in the early 1990s. The wind really whips the campus, and it's just not a nice place to be. While I was there, I noticed students starting to use the handicapped door buttons at the entrance/exits between the...

E. Howard Watch & Clock was a Roxbury institution. They specialized in both watches and in church clocks and this sort of commercial clocks as well. There's a Howard st in Roxbury near the site of the old factory.