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Boylston had too many lanes but it was a pretty drastic change to do both bike lanes and bus lanes on a road that is always choked with traffic. Whether or not it is a good idea from a technocratic standpoint, one must also consider other factors. I hope she can pull this revision off without...

Yes—I find it suspect that moving around a lot = mobility, but he goes on to get more into related arguments that I think at their core are correct. I think you can still have a healthy, rooted community that is vibrant and neither the rootless modern America (that I think is quite unhealthy)...

I must say, and knowing this will be developed one way or another, this is a horrendous location for a development like this. Too many people, and the only access is right at the rotary (which will soon be a signaled intersection). No other way in or out.

I don’t but I worry there are a lot more than people think. I check the NY Post and the Herald (the latter less often since it’s paywalled) and see a lot of conservative crap that I think is representative of more of a slice of the population — the local population — than we’d like to think.

I thought I would make a new thread for this article (which I just read) and book (which I just ordered). While I do not entirely agree with all the premises, this author captures an essence I have long observed and wondered about: the fact that the most progressive neighborhoods who...

As is often the case, the bike stuff is often more about feelings than facts... but there are feelings that are out there now, and then there are untapped, potential feelings that can be drawn out/realigned/polarized depending on how things go. However, I must say, to lead with "bike lanes"...

Wu’s lived here for years and actually served as a city councilor. Huge difference.

I’m glad to see so many viewpoints similar to my own about Kraft. I do worry that there is an incipient or potential coalition of conservative-types of many stripes that includes people whom you wouldn’t necessarily call conservative but that when it comes to infrastructurally progressive...

Think he’s got a chance, F-Line? You usually have some choice insights…

Imagine if they made a tight street grid with apartment buildings on small lots, and a range of height… would be amazing and would totally knit this part of southie to the south end

Such a huge campus — look at all that space. So much opportunity for quality urbanism, and I cant wait to watch our shit city let it be carved up into 3 giant-floorplate squat turds. Oh, and the new streets will all be [Name] Way and [Name] Drive. Thanks Boston

I’m surprised that Canton gets less than 500 people boarding.

I’m amazed there’s no discussion here at all so far about the mayors race. Maybe that because we tend to discuss things in threads that aren’t specific to politics, but I also think it’s because this particular thread is buried away at the bottom of the page. I think the state and local...

I think beyond just social mixing, the important theme here is participation, and more specifically, *collective participation*. When you live above a shop that’s on the street that connects two different neighborhoods, the car that stops to pick up groceries or the lady taking the streetcar to...

Oh, I’m with you on that. Not to totally derail this (tho this is — finally! — a thread that is actually about something sociocultural, so it IS relevant), but one of two linchpin of the entire class divide that is front and center today originated in the 1960s with Vietnam (the other being...

I would rather live in a world where thieves had a better chance, to be honest. The rise of “security“ and “safety” in dictating policy is another worrisome trend of modernity, and nearly all the measures end up leading to suppression of human freedom, Including freedom of movement, as a byproduct.

I completely agree with you and I have complained about this periodically on here. What you describe is not limited to suburban developments: it consistently happens in the city of Boston whenever large tracts of land get developed. Think of Bartlett Yards, for example. And also, the fact that...

What’s surprising about that? He’s a billionaire son of a sleaze bag Trump lover who lives in Chestnut Hill and used his inherited money to buy a condo to establish residency in Boston, solely to run for mayor, motivated solely by the arrogant entitlement that as a billionaire he knows better...

Im sorry but the guy's name is actually "Pigsley"? Is this some kind of joke but real life?

Ah. Yes, I agree with you there. I grew up close to here in Brookline Village and always assumed that whole housing campus was just a federal housing project. It wasn’t until my 20s that I learned otherwise. What I appreciated about RTH was that they took on HMS/BWH, and that’s no easy feat...