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I don't see how it could be at all surprising that business interests can be motivated to help eliminate transit, especially in this country with its history of streetcar conspiracy.

Re: T construction news According to Matthew at The Walking Bostonian, a new commuter rail station for Allston/Brighton is going ahead: http://walkingbostonian.blogspot.com/2012/06/excellent-news-for-allstonbrighton.html

Wow, a good portion of the Northeastern campus would have been a highway.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I commuted for most of a year on the D branch and now use the C branch occasionally. I found the Green Line pretty reliable. Though the lack of signal priority is pretty annoying. Oftentimes it is faster for me to walk to the St Mary's portal than to...

Re: The Point (Boylston/Brookline) Yeah, it's pretty horrible around there. It's along my commute, but I intentionally cross Brookline a block over to avoid it. There tend to be a bunch of cars parked along there and there's also a dumpster blocking part of the walk. A new high/mid-rise would...

Re: Development Map I like yours better because it doesn't require Flash.

Has this news been posted here yet? http://dailyfreepress.com/2012/03/01/mbta-to-install-more-bike-racks-with-4-8-million-national-stimulus-funds/

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade I was hoping this would be about converting the Fairmount line to heavy rail, but ah well. http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/dorchester/2012/02/hold_mayor_kicks_off_fairmount.html

Re: Assembly Square Redevelopment Here's a link to that DCR presentation alluded to by the article: http://www.mass.gov/dcr/news/publicmeetings/materials/parklands/riverfrontpresentation2011-12-6.pdf

For some good news, Brookline just voted to approve the financial plan and contract for Hubway: http://brookline.patch.com/articles/hubway-bike-network-extending-to-brookline-by-spring

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Any idea if the difference in fares would make up for the additional operating costs? I would be all for this if it's at least revenue neutral, but otherwise the legislature should put its wallet where its mouth is (e.g., repealing forward funding...

Re: Assembly Square Redevelopment Parking can be integrated into a big-box store in a more urban way. For example, there is an urban Costco in Downtown Vancouver that integrates parking and also has condo towers built on top of it. It'd be nice if the same ideas could be applied here.

It's this project. I think it's a sewer project that was mandated by the state. IIRC they're doing it now because MA is paying for it and there was no guarantee they'd get money if they postponed it.

Didn't see these posted here yet. Looks like there are new renderings for this project: http://www.somervillestep.org/2011/11/new_images_of_a.html

Re: Liberty Wharf (Jimmy's Harborside) Excellent. Did you get that in Boston? I've looked around for Oregon beer here, but I've only seen Rogue Dead Guy. I prefer Deschutes Brewery to Rogue though.

Ridiculously, this thread has now been mentioned by an NU-affiliated Twitter account for the hype.

Amusingly, there actually is a Southeastern University too.

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 Looks like there might be more legal action over the Green Line. From http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/08/26/somerville_blasts_green_line_delay/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Local+news

As of one of the (probably) younger people on this board, I think that people in newer generations are much less likely to be interested in an automobile-based lifestyle just due to awareness of certain issues (peak oil, sustainability, etc.). However, not only is infrastructure still lacking...

I like the green roof and deck. Looks like a well thought-out building.