Search results

You have to pay DeMaria then you’re good

these are misplaced -- belongs in porter sq

Do you have any more pics of the frenchies?

As is the norm now, rich people who oppose any change and care about no form of diversity accept as a token statement on email autosignatures and gesture votes will refuse development that could bring the town tax dollars. Then they will also oppose tax hikes that are necessary, but ultimately...

They’re an idiot. I live on a commuter rail line that runs more frequently than this. When it happens, it’s loud, but you get used to it.

of course, but it’s likely that eventually, power transmission as we know it will be completely different. Maybe it will be in two centuries, maybe in three decades, but it will happen eventually.

I hope I live to see the day when somehow, whatever powers homes can be accessed in some way other than wires in the air.

I like that 43-47 Fremont Street. It’s kind of a modern take on older small mill-town style apartment housing—the kind you might see in Grafton or South Barre, or even Dedham along the Mother Brook. The garage door is doing its best to ruin the look but the rest of it is pretty good.

It’s already happening, separate project. They’re putting a signal here and adding cycle tracks on centre and Walter. I think the signal is a shitty idea and the typical unimaginative Boston solution of just adding stoplights rather than real calming measures to permanently slow car speeds on...

The ones across the street are honey locust I think. The ones that were cut down were linden. Might make a difference.

It’s not going to be an architectural masterpiece, but it does two important things: 1) it walls off the Hebrew Rehab, which is a hideous eyesore, and 1) it encloses Centre, which is a much better urban aesthetic and it might even help reduce speeds, since being closed in rather than having a...

I have no idea what I’m talking about here, other than growing up in Brookline, but I imagine that, given the fact that Brookline has always been a solid place to invest in property, and prices have been generally resistant to overall market downturns, there’s less urgency for owners to sell at...

oof, they look awful. well, I guess that's at least less nefarious than I thought. But I hope they replace them. Notable is the fact that the trees at Blossom/Cambridge are flourishing, but also in tiny tree boxes. Maybe better light, unclear...

It's great density, but I wish they could have made this somehow less glaring in its geometry. If there was infill to its right, that would help, but these streets are, and feel, when you're on them, slightly curved, and this aggressively cubical structure feels hostile to that.

MGH just cut down every single tree on their side of Blossom Street. I’m not aware of any justification for this other than the fact that they have a little bit of scaffolding against the Thier Building. Incredibly disappointing. Does anyone have any information about why this would have happened?

And I believe that state property is exempt from local zoning laws anyway? I vaguely remember reading this in one of the streets and squares reports. I think overall this is a big step in the right direction. I’d like to have seen an even more aggressive change, but at least it significantly...

Nice find. Even though it’s taken an absurd number of years, I’m glad that in the end, all the underpasses are being eliminated. My one question is, what purpose do center running bus lanes on route 99 serve, once you’re south of Sullivan Square? Between the casino and Sullivan is a no-brainer...

This is an interesting question and also could be studied. Essentially, what are the destinations of bus riders who take one bus to Forest Hills and then another bus from Forest Hills? Some potential issues might be addressable by increasing capacity on existing Roslindale buses like the 14, or...

Yes! And I think you’re right, they slightly moved spaces before they closed down for good. And I have been told about the World Cup party in that parking by others—good memory! That must’ve been so cool.

In the way only the type of person who finds their way to forums like this can truly know, when I was younger I used to be mildly obsessed with Union Sq and how much potential it had given its location and its major X shaped confluence of two major roads. Taking the 66, I would sort of imagine...