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You can transmit power wirelessly, but it is pretty dicey -- things that get between the transmitter and receiver tend to get fried.

Sorry, I am not aware of any detailed breakdown of the LMA usage. My understanding, though is all three main routes have significant usage. (They restrict M2 to Harvard ID holders precisely because it is used heavily.)

When calculating LMA transit demand, you need to include the LMA Shuttle system. 37 busses, it carries more than 7,000 daily riders to other T locations (mostly Red and Orange Lines).

Underground electric utilities are not exactly a new innovation. Edison started using them in the late 19th century. Big challenge is that they are about 4x more costly to install than overhead lines, although they often pay for themselves in lifetime costs from reduced maintenance and...

There is some really strange wording in that post -- wonder if it came from our incompetent DOGE types: "cut down on the high cost of deferred maintenance" -- deferred maintenance is not immediately high cost -- it is done to avoid costs now. But if you are telling the market that this...

Visitors are going to get a real "bait and switch" jolt when their expectations for the T are set by that head house, and then they get down to the platform.

Fastest connections are still on top of the backbone. Co-location on top of the backbone (at an IXP) is prized by certain sectors who demand low latency, fastest data transfer, and access to the maximum number of ISPs and carriers.

Major co-location data centers need to be locate at NICs -- the major interconnect points of the internet. The fiber core of Boston's internet connectivity is in downtown Boston, basically because that is where the legacy telecom provider was located. The clients of the co-location center are...

Shouldn't doesn't mean they don't. Lots of local complaints about excessive (hours) of idling at Newburyport, Rockport and Readville.

Don't get me wrong -- I agree that they could have done much better even with artificial materials. They didn't really try.

Somehow I don't think you are going to convince the public to spend the money for Milford Granite pavers (the subtle stone of the BPL facade) for a park. The last building to do so was the Changi Airport in Singapore (and we don't invest in public infrastructure like Singapore). (Note even if...

I suspect the power drops are the issue, and may be non-trivial to accomplish. (Running new high voltage lines anyplace they currently do not go in MA is an approvals nightmare.) Access to more power in the yards may also be driving the BEMU fantasy plan for the Newburyport and Rockport lines...

Totally depends on where you are in the geography around downtown and Back Bay -- complex airspace restriction overlay because Logan is so close (including flight path carve outs just south and north of downtown due to runway alignments). (Zoom in for details)...

What the Seaport could have been in an alternate universe: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/may/19/paris-eco-district-pictures

It is not really occasional events. There are events there multiple times per week. The farmers market for example, is there twice a week, and one of the goals was to get that moved from the sidewalk periphery to the Dartmouth Street hardscape, so it doesn't block the busy bus stop on St...

Funny -- I don't think I have ever seen a big event hosted in the Public Garden. On the Common, yes (where they have to close lawn areas on a regular basis to allow rejuvenation from the over use). In the Public Garden there are even signs to encourage people to stay on the paved paths. But...

MBTA diesels do this in virtually every yard (and get complaints at all of them - Readville, Rockport, Newburyport...). It is done to keep the fluids warm for faster startup in the morning, and to allow daily system and safety tests. Also, if there is no off-board power, to recharge batteries.

To be fair on this you have to consider the various proposals as separate developments. They are all on the same general site (even if the footprints are different), but each of the proposals has been very different. It is not that uncommon for a challenging piece of real estate to have...

"When he first moved in, the site was under construction, cleared land that offered a view of the Taunton River and sunsets." Complaining about land use that you knew was coming "site was under construction" is the height of NIMBY entitlement. The cleared site offered views -- that the NIMBY...

I can only guess some one was tying the palette to the granite, limestone and pale brick of the McKim Building and the Copley Plaza. Does not seem like a great choice.