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Horrible news for affordable housing. The $1 Billion program to fund energy efficiency and climate resiliency retrofits for older affordable housing has been cancelled by DOGE. The program catalyzes about 10X additional in private investment -- and locks in affordable status for the...

People buy bus tickets at the bus station, in addition to online. The new escalators and elevators are the access from public transit to the bus terminal -- you cannot put them behind fare control.

I have always wondered if you could rise up into the Green Line tunnel via the location of the former Public Garden Portal, near Arlington Street. The tunnel is wide there with the former portal in the center.

Silver Line Phase III was going to be routed under both Boylston and Chinatown stations.

Understood -- but you need to be aligned from the west down Essex street (for a few blocks) to get there. The Transitway is quite shallow -- and shallow depths are fully compromised by the Big Dig tunnels south of Essex Street -- basically a classic "you can't get there for here" situation...

I am basically concerned that ferry service will be used as a transit "fig leaf". Kraft and Co. will say -- "see we invested in transit for the stadium...." But it will be meaningless in terms of the real transit needs for a facility of that size.

This is going to be a nightmare when you have a full Commuter Rail train unloading at the same time an Amtrak is loading on adjacent tracks on the same platform (or vice versa) which happens frequently AM and PM rush!

Quick note on the Chinatown Gold Line connection to the transitway. This has been reviewed up thread many times (sorry cannot find the reference). You have to access the transitway via Essex street -- you can not come at it from any location further south. There is no way to get across the...

The new Bus Terminal escalators and elevators will come down into the archway area under the tower. You cannot put those behind fare control. But it should clear up Platform 1 for fare control.

But it is not just a lobby -- it is through passage to other destination besides the platforms. You cannot block that through passage.

There are too many other pedestrian connections in South Station for that to work. You have feeds out to Atlantic Avenue, the Bus Terminal, the Postal Annex, all which need open access not fare control access from the archway area. The gates will need to be out at or very near the platforms.

Have to agree -- the math on ferry service just doesn't pencil out. It does not put a dent in the transport needs for a Revs stadium here.

So are the new fare gates coming to South Station before or after they resurface the horrible condition platforms? Because knowing the T it will likely be a sequence of: install new fare gates -- oops, need to resurface platforms -- tear out fare gates -- resurface platforms -- reinstall fare...

Sell to connected people at below market prices. Then the rest.

The car (and its occupants) is always the victim -- American car-centric culture.

Core fundamental problem is the Ted Williams Tunnel operates very close to capacity today. That has been clearly demonstrated by recent Sumner Tunnel closure impacts which turned transit time through the Ted Williams or Tobin Bridge into 30+ minutes just to cross the water. You have no room to...

I went through the Bromley atlases for Bay State Road -- it looks like the intervening lots were laid out but never developed. The 10 defined lots around 250 Bay State were owned by Lillior Nutting, but undeveloped (existing row houses were there on both sides), until they were owned by the BU...

Elevators are not just for luxury, they can also be for accessibility. I think four units triggers accessibility requirements.

Not sure your logic works. It does not stop single family home construction -- it just means you can build other formats as well. If the demand is for single family homes, that will still be what is built. But if there is demand for duplexes, triplexes, etc., those get built instead of being...

Interest rates still remain high -- the Fed has not brought them down very far yet. That has a huge impact on project financials. And now inflation expectations are heating up again, so they are not likely getting any lower soon.