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The place where I most fear the high-profile, multiple-fatality, chain-reaction accident is right up there at the crest of the Sagamore Bridge. 40 feet wide, 40 mph speed limit, and 4 highway traffic lanes, with a pedestrian sidewalk to boot. God only knows what happens next. Boy, this thread...

When MassDOT did some of this trimming work overzealously without installing guardrails, there was a fatal accident within a month: http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20141119/NEWS/141119438. (CCT article provided for more fulsome background on the players involved. MassDOT wouldn't confirm to...

Per the invaluable (and charmingly out of date) bostonroads.com: So yeah, it was just about exactly what you thought. Groundwater out there is particularly fragile and scarce. Environmental concerns like you said plus development concerns like masswich said. Click through for the whole...

"...and this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp..." "Agreed. First prize!"

Business and government climate? As a casual observer, the news coming out of Rhode Island always smacks of "teetering on the brink." Huge budget and tax problems at the state and city levels, big time government corruption -- like raid-the-Speaker's-office big -- and colossal debacles where...

The hottest new development in Providence is Danny Amendola's carport. Danny's got your Federal period urbanism right here. Did NECN send their news helicopter down to take a look? You're damn right they did: Watch it not snow for the next two months, rendering the carport both ugly and...

It has an apt identity, namely, "boom, there's some boring office shit going on in here, man." When you see it in the skyline, it lets you know to look slightly to the left or to the right to see other buildings.

If the church's governing body has desanctified the building and sold it, nobody's being disrespectful. The reuse is being invited and encouraged. Besides, the people make the church and not the building, as I'm sure you can find stated more eloquently in Matthew's gospel or in the equivalent...

The monastery buildings make up a beautiful complex and anybody who hasn't been up to see it should make time for a little passive urbex (no looking for open doors, people!!) and check it out before it changes. The very top of that hill has 180-degree views to the skyline, New Balance, and the...

Real. Northeastern men's basketball hosted (and lost to, but no shame in losing to the current national #1 team) Michigan State over the weekend.

^Good catch, thanks. Here they is.

The market probably does exist for a dumb bus like you describe, Shepard, but the whole "innovation!" piece is Bridj's raison d'être. Just look at what a sore thumb they are (or would be if listed) in the portfolio of reported backer Atlas Venture. VCs like that literally want to cure cancer...

Soon-to-be-expat monthly Bridj user here, feeling compelled to do a topical text dump this morning from a user perspective. I first started using it last winter when it was better by a magnitude than suffering through the Green Line, and often cheaper in the off peak too (prices have since been...

I do think a signage discussion would be interesting. This BRA approach is indeed sensible -- brand your headquarters but not each and every one of your ATMs from 500 feet high, sure, works for me -- so maybe that's why it in particular isn't rousing much discussion. And the Globe piece...

I said as much in the other T thread (deleted now because I saw the chatter here), but if these shenanigans allowed us to dodge the dot matrix designs, it was a noble pursuit.

Right on. When the Globe ed board decides it wants to wag its finger at someone, it sends out a reporter to write something weaselly, counts off two or three days, and then writes an editorial that spells out the subtext in the weaselly reporting and lets us know how upset we should all be. So...

Sign in the window says Spring 2016.

The Brookline line runs through the front door of every building on the south side of Comm Ave. from Winslow Rd. to St. Mary's St. Everything inbound from St. Mary's to Kenmore is 100% Boston. Not that I want to make you more fearful about the long term prospects of Louie's, but it is what it is.

As just discussed in this thread one post and 19 months ago, the Route 9 overpass in Brookline Village is coming down. Now we know when: this Columbus Day weekend. http://brookline.wickedlocal.com/article/20150922/NEWS/150929266 Buried at the bottom of the article is the claim that the...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos <pigsflyingoverfrozenhell.gif> Happy day at last, yet anticlimactic that it's just turned been on without any dignitary ribbon-cutting to speak of. Also, I wonder if the work that was required in the Central Subway to activate tracking explains why...