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Not always. If the project is truly "shovel ready" at 100% design, I think it can sit in the hopper a while. Outreach will inevitably be necessary leading up to construction. I'm not saying that projects don't linger while funding is figured out, but I also think that happens a lot more for...

It's worth noting that the Federal Government does provide funding in several forms for planning and design, including formula programs like SPR and discretionary grant programs. You can get money to do design and outreach.

My initial comment was a response to the tone of the comment it quoted. The details of this law as I read them (and thank you to those who have provided additional context) seem workable to me, but we aren't really debating the merits of the proposal, so no need to continue this argument.

And how much of Massachusetts' population and area are located in the Boston urban core? We're talking 60-70% of trips taken by probably about 1/6 of the population. The forum is about Boston. The law is for the whole state. We're discussing the law.

The MBTA is a single agency with easy accountability. There are 352 cities and towns worth of officials to bribe here (and not even necessarily personally). I agree that the buffers written into the law are a reasonable constraint, and that's because American culture expects people to speed...

The opportunity for corruption comes from the fact that once this is legal, companies that manage these cameras and often collect the fines will start hitting up every municipality in the Commonwealth hawking their system and the revenue it would generate. In that environment, graft is...

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Translation: Seems like the majority of people in Massachusetts will be punished for their lifestyle choices with potentially overzealous and corruptly-implemented automated fines! https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/representative-chicago-area-red-light-camera-company-sentenced-five-years-federal

Globe Story: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/24/business/simmons-dorms-lab-housing/

I've got to give it to Andrew Flynn, he has chutzpah. He intentionally didn't render views that would show how big his project would be, and when someone else did it for him, he manages to sound genuinely offended. Buddy, it's a 25-story skyscraper in a neighborhood where the tallest buildings...

Even assuming that those rules were changed to allow this (I don't think they were as a professional in this industry, but it's too early in the morning to go look it up) and that the current form somehow survives in the Trump regime, I don't think a regional system of any kind can substitute...

Okay, but... ...this lawsuit wasn't filed by people any more legit.

It's Biogen, right? https://www.nbcboston.com/boston-business-journal/biogen-in-talks-to-move-to-mits-volpe-development-sources-say/3582901/

The Urban Ring wouldn't replace the APM, it would at best replicate the bus shuttles and Silver Line unless you're planning to make the whole Urban Ring an automated people mover elevated above the street (and that has a route that just runs loops of the Airport).

Being honest, those don't seem like unreasonable demands. I could see where the neighborhood would be annoyed with how much favor the developers have tried to buy by engaging other groups (see prior post...) If the hardscape persists, it won't be because the neighbors sued, it will be because...

LOI for Phase 1: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/4h698i4ctaubdknclqfmlwrgbec04erc

That's only true in a world where each party's agenda is defined solely by brainlessly erasing the priorities of the other (of course it's 95% the GOP that does this, partially because they don't actually spend money on anything but tax cuts for the Democrats to undo). Not saying the Democrats...

Not quite. Korff (the prior developer of Dunstan East/Newton Crossing) gave them space in his Newtonville project. They're still in business.

Building on his point, MassDOT's intersection control evaluation (ICE) process favors roundabouts heavily. They will default to it whenever possible precisely because they agree with you. One can take issue with the criteria, but not the intent. The article says it is the Commonwealth that has...

Yes, along with some adjacent properties.