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DPIR: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/f9vjybobjfsyi8evxgoiu3wjn2u39vsm

Supplemental filing for Phase 2: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/awn1nw1vrpfi0ltkk2qhr6pso9a7ze5g

That's one way to spin it, but it's not in either the letter or spirit of the law, which is why she needs it changed.

I just noticed the arcade... Is that an arcade in the retail space or in the hospital for patients and families?

Honestly, I have some confidence in this passing, but it's predicated on shifting money away from education, and there's got to be opposition to that...

And who would ever want signage on the access point to City Hall? It's not like any residents need to conduct business there...

I agree with that take. Narrowing lanes naturally encourages people to slow down and they typically don't even notice. It's also a better strategy because the usual behavior with a speed hump is to slow down to pass over it, then to speed back up, maybe even faster than before because you're...

I'm referring to putting them on the thoroughfares - speed humps are fine on side streets in part because the encourage traffic to go where they aren't. I also get the sense that both of you are speaking from the perspective of non-drivers. My point is that drivers in places where speed humps on...

The political gambit is that enough drivers in Boston want to virtue-signal so much that they don't realize how useless and irritating speed humps actually are... I've been to cities where they have done this, and the public despises them and talks about it multiple times per day, since driving...

If the Legislature passes it...

I understand the motivation, but legibility is still form to me - if you look at the map for a couple seconds more you can read diagonal text. It's not about walking transfers at Reservoir/Cleveland Circle (which is really one station). If you're a person from anywhere outside of Route 128 and...

I agree with this completely. The failure to display the proximity of Reservoir and Cleveland Circle is a huge problem with the current map (derived from a map made by a guy from Moscow who had never seen the real-world layout of the system). I saw that the even spacing of the GL branches and OL...

Mississauga is a gaggle of mismatched tall things randomly sprinkled through a parking lot. The urban core is literally centered on a mall surrounded by asphalt. Kendall's urbanism beats the pants off of it.

The materials are critical with this one - the warmth of the timber is critical for avoiding a brutalist feeling (back at the beginning of the thread we have some more zoomed-in looks). From the isometric it looks like it's covered in pink alcuobond/concrete, but it's wood.

It depends, but I suspect the answer is yes, if they wanted to. I believe there is a way FHWA could put this in an MOU and actually lock it in. I'm not sure if they're doing that, but I hope they are.

It lives! https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema-live/s3fs-public/2024-12/WebsterAve50_P&Z22-067-R1_Narrative_0.pdf (Final Subdivision Submittal Narrative)

They may yet. It's encouraging that developers are starting with residential projects instead of waiting for the lab market to recover - I was worried they'd hold off on everything.

It's striking how much the ideas they had 100 years ago still would make sense today - it's just that we can't build most of them anymore. There are some good ideas that came later, like the Red Line to Porter and Davis, but on the whole Boston would have much better transit if they'd just...

LOI: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/e5xuj9vqfmdaer4fw64z5vb5v60iuunj Since it wasn't posted at the time (at least in this thread - I feel like we discussed it somewhere), the Master Plan from last December: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/2eow81sywvmxx7b01sth0zvs0ceestmf They mention only residential...

I kind of feel like 99% of electricity use has always been frivolous, though... Venture Capital is essentially required for all companies to start. It's the leveraged buyout that should be banned, and we should have banned the Ponzi Economy as soon as Biden took office.