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Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos It's preposterous that the Zone 1A pass and the LinkPass are separate products. They simply shouldn't be able to sell a subway/bus pass that is unusable on rail in the 1A zone -- it's tantamount to consumer theft. If we could get that particular...

Re: 939 Boylston (Or really Public Alley 444) Hutchison, you are killing it with these BRA website finds. Thank you! Looks like the retail might include a repurposing of the Cactus Club space. As with any retail turnover in this area, I hope and pray that it's big enough to coax Trader Joe's...

^ The Colonnade's rooftop pool is something ridiculous like $30 cover if you don't have a room there. Makes sense that they don't want the place turned into a public pool, though. This one should be free.

Sorry no pictures, but Yawkey Way Extension appeared to be open to all traffic this morning. One-way from Brookline Ave. and Yawkey proper, hangs a left at the station with a wide space for kiss-and-ride, and ends at a stop sign at the new corner of Maitland and Overland. Sharrows throughout...

^ +10-box.

Lots of the illustrations are showing A Line tracks to Union Square, ha.

The Coolidge House rehab/long term care facility in Coolidge Corner is closing in December. Link: http://brookline.wickedlocal.com/article/20141013/NEWS/141018727 And map: https://goo.gl/maps/4X7uP It's not in the article, and there's nothing on record as of today, but the rumor I'm hearing...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos The entire platforms will really be corner-to-corner? Of course you don't want any mid-block crossings, but that sounds unnecessary, like building two stations for the price of four. It would make sense, though, if they kept the platforms at a max...

Does this space just get swallowed by the Wegmans? I know they were planning on just plopping it in the middle and eating some parking lot, but I'm sure they'd go for the extra square footage if it were available.

^Similar issues at Pleasant St., though granted it's beyond the realm of the earlier phase's improvements. Not a chance of making it across this one in one gasp from the north side. From the south side you actually stand a chance, but only if you jaywalk it with the knowledge that the WB cars...

Historically analogous? I'm sure the 19th century Beacon Hillers had the nicest horses and carriages, so now they can have the nicest cars. (For the record, I drive a used Ford, and this is not a serious response.)

Yeah, sometimes this is why we need the courts. A judge can read the regs and give us a straight answer about the BHCA's demands (which, if the UHub comments are to be believed, would include ADA-compliant work done at a higher price than the city wants to pay) and Walsh's process to reject...

^^Yes, statler, agreed. Way too many unanswered questions. The media coverage, at the expense of the facts, has been too quick to employ caricature, and I reluctantly include UHub in that category as well. Sure, it's entertaining to hear about the ancient woman who wants to push her ancient...

It looks like the door is still there and they left an outdoor passage for it. There's a slight gap at ground level between the new building and Mugar (where the 80's-vintage entrance was recently sealed up) that you would use to access it. See it here in the photo posted by BeeLine last month...

Has to do with greater proximity to hockey players.

Groundbreaking a few weeks ago on 32 affordable units at 86 Dummer St., replacing a parking lot between the Landry's block of Comm. Ave. and the area's existing BHA complex. Will have to swing by and see if anything nonceremonial is happening. Link, with apologies that it's via Wicked Local...

Way down on the Cambridge end by the intersection with Mt. Auburn, there's also been some restriping and resurfacing. I thought that that area would eventually be within the scope of this project...are they starting the project at both ends of the road and then hoping to meet in the middle...

Unpopular opinion alert: without fail, out of town friends will tell me "that's kinda cool" when I walk them by that Holiday Inn. It's far from the urban ideal, but the fact that you can see into it and that they've done some non-standard design there with the trees and the open hallway makes it...

Over John Henry's dead body, perhaps? Maybe not, I have no idea. Brookline Ave. is one lane by the ballpark and it functions about as well as could be expected on game nights -- or at least it's no more of a problem than anything else in that area. What definitely seems attainable would be...