Search results

Mystifying Globe headline yesterday: "Next at South Station: hard hats, detours and lots of headaches" No link because this kind of headlining shouldn't be rewarded with traffic. What is the goal of this editorial pissery and who is it serving?

This news is a very pleasant surprise. Everything I had heard about the relocated cab stand and the Atlantic Ave. staging area made me think they were closing the direct access from Atlantic to the platforms. Between that path remaining open and the new path to Fort Point, this really seems like...

Where would you stop the current I-84 coming from the west? I assume you would leave it as some kind of spur and then switch to boulevards near the city line? I can't imagine a downgrading scenario that wouldn't make West Hartford furious, but given how much highway coverage there actually is in...

I'm trying to figure out if either of the following things in the NPC can possibly be true (emphasis mine): Page 24 - "a new major traffic signalization at Beacon, Mailtland and Mountfort Streets due to be completed in January 2020" - as far as I can tell, they haven't even started this? Page...

^Not that I necessarily agree, but it's not gonna happen with this crew. If you look at how the Worcester Red Sox front office is constructed, it's basically a PR shop with a baseball club attached to it. They don't have any interest in maximizing the number of people who can attend, if doing so...

10k is very much the median for stadiums at this level of minor league baseball. The only outliers in the International League (link here) were built 20+ years ago, and you could expect those to be downsized whenever they get their next bite at the tax-subsidy apple. Not sure whether this is...

Booksmith just pulled the permit and it looks like it will just be a pop-up. Hope it does well, though -- they would be unbeatable with their own cafe in addition to everything else they do.

The venerable Brookline Booksmith looks to be expanding into the corner space on the far end of its block from Coolidge Corner, into the storefront formerly occupied by Peet's Coffee. Tentatively it looks like they are keeping the coffee bar in place, moving the used books into this new space...

The best one of these that I have seen on here is decking the Pike east of the Pru tunnel and moving the Marginal-type parallel roads to a center parkway over the deck, while the former roadways get sold for terra firma development.

Where do we think this project "is"? I see them calling it Audubon Circle but I had trouble with that at first, even though the walkup building right next door to it and across that little private drive definitely belongs to Audubon Circle. Right now it's aggressively a non-place, but I...

Just feeling like dropping this detail into the discussion: among the alternatives considered by ACE were tunneling, building a third bridge, or FILLING IN THE CANAL!! Now that's how you put the Engineers into Army Corps of Engineers. It's worth keeping in mind that these bridges are such...

^Thank you, this is more like it. Our difference in opinion, then, is that I don't think it's OK to throw out the bath water because the project doesn't manage to solve a comprehensive regional problem in a single swing. My view is that what it's attempting to solve is worth solving, and not...

No, this budgetary point is too knee-jerky, and smacks of the "force of belief" complex that you project onto other posters when you don't like their ideas. You would be asking anyone else who made statements like that to provide supporting evidence, with lists of comparable projects and their...

These bridges are an ongoing public safety crisis and needed to be replaced decades ago. Does anybody who uses these bridges ever feel safe doing it? I'm constantly in fear of being sideswiped on an ill-advised pass or just flat out rammed by someone from over the double yellow. And then when an...

I wasn't offering commentary other than on the design choices, and lukewarm commentary at that. I said it was 1) for the rich, 2) profitable, and 3) incoherently designed from an exterior perspective (though it's early to say, hence the lukewarmness). No value judgments on the first two...

https://www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCenter/View/20343/82019--Advisory-Review-Set-as-Submitted-151-153-Babcock?bidId= Hardly rises to the level of earning aB's attention but interesting to see the latest trends in one-percentery. A huge lot for North Brookline, .77 acres, on the edge of a...

^^ OK, wait a minute, hold up, take a few breaths, TOU gang. I'm sorry I haven't chimed in earlier but was busy out of my mind at work the last few weeks, and only now able to come up for air, and hopefully in the nick of time. Check the link to the "terms and rules" at the bottom of the page...

This issue needs to be prioritized and solved. It will have the effect of driving away contributors who have the most to offer. I've been sitting quietly and hoping that when these terms came out, they would be acceptable to Beton and others who have been very clear that this is an important...

^ Of course the Globe's top-line takeaway is "Express train to Providence is on the table." Staring a hole through a single tree and missing the forest. No link because they don't deserve the traffic. (edited to add link post-page jump)

On mobile, in portrait and within each subforum, the thread creator (not too meaningful of a data point for so many 13-year-old threads) is listed below the title but not the username of the person who posted most recently, only the number of replies and the time of the most recent post. The...