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I have to say I never liked Boloco, but I am blown away to know that they are the same entity as The Wrap, which I do remember from way back. In fairness, I have never been a wrap guy in general, though. @Stlin, that is very interesting. I read all about RTH years ago when first getting into...

The real problem is institutional ownership, which is bad enough if it’s a university, and even worse if it’s a hospital, when it comes to doing anything nice at the street level. You could argue that’s not what these places are for, but I would counter that argument with saying there should be...

NICE To be fair I haven’t been there since I was maybe in high school, but that definitely used to be the spot.

Nice, yes, that’s it. I accidentally posted my file (a screenshot from historic aerials) within the quoted text of your post, and it didn’t load. This house (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZfDvjWFxXt6PrtaB9?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy) had tracks still in its backyard, but that was over ten years...

Great article and a lot of work. Did you come across anything about the rail spur that snaked through this neighborhood in the 20s and 30s? It was a very peculiar line, since it was not a street railway but had its own ROW, just as a little short jaunt off the mainline to get to the park. The...

Ah, RIP Shoe Barn

All I can say is, the criteria are wrong. In the UK, this would be a rotary. This intersection is scary and dangerous right now, because cars drive 50 mph through it. It's also high volume and is a major left turn need which adds additional reasons why a rotary would work best. Adding a...

I wonder if this is a function of both short height, wide girth, and narrow streets. I read this and first thought that perhaps this is why big buildings dont fit onto small streets, yet the City of London has plenty of tall buildings on tiny streets and it works fine without feeling...

This is my complaint with Boston traffic planning across the board. Rarely are roads redesigned to constrain drivers in a way that makes them slow down — without even noticing. Instead, planners just love adding lights, which appeases the same crowds you're talking about. But if you're a...

I was gonna say that double line of trees screams abandoned RR ROW, but I dont think it is one. Looking at old maps I dont think there were ever tracks this far out. Interestingly, I think this may be the most recent site of land making in Boston—the jetties were filled in in the 70s, maybe...

I don’t think it’s going to look incredible when it’s finished, but I do think a lot of the “busyness“ is because it’s still under construction. Once the majority of the façade is those panels it’ll look different.

And proud of it!

It's definitely gonna make traffic worse at many hours of the day (although from 2pm-6pm, I anticipate it actually being better for those coming into JP on Centre, since that rotary is just dominated by all the traffic coming outbound on the parkway during afternoon rush hour), but I think it's...

Yeah, I think having the arch that's open to the street (I guess that's east) would have still made a difference. The one time I have been there this winter it felt colder than I remember it being before construction started.

Thanks for this! I am glad to hear it was considered. Perhaps in the future. While I like the library, the shape of the building, at that particular corner, alongside the fact that it is a library (which projects an institutional, rather than street level retail, type feeling), somewhat...

Right but to get good transit, at a certain point you have to stop subsidizing cars, and let the inability to have a car drive demand from the government to actually invest in transit. The same goes for development patterns and influencing local zoning, and that's even more feasible since that...

De gustibus non disputandum!

One thing to consider, though, for any extension of any line, is that it automatically adds additional potential access via bus routes, either with or without reconfiguring lines. I know it's still a tough sell, but a shorter bus route to rapid transit is still a lot better than a long bus...

Amazing, thanks so much. I’ve seen a lot of amazing photos of both old time Cambridge Street as well as the West End razing, but these are new. Very cool that Lynde St, despite being a dead end alley now, retains a very old feeling to it, and offers a glimpse of how narrow the old streets in...

They can also park on the street like everyone else around there. Not having parking in that building doesn’t mean you can’t live there and have a car. The request is bullshit; as someone else just said, it’s not a question of not being able to sell the condos, it’s a question of what sort of...