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I agree with that. My observation is that in this case those anecdotal measures, incliding my own that I'm sure you can find on aB, haven't translated as much or as quickly as was expected. None of the things you cited there are new - I've been hearing them and saying them the whole of the 21st...

We're not having a conversation about TV rights for English Football, we're having a conversation about stadiums for soccer leagues here, in a country where the sport isn't big enough to own its own name. When I googled "AAA baseball TV rights and ratings", I got nothing useful...

This has been true for the last 20 years, and yet it has topped out at just under hockey. That's not niche, but it's about even with AAA baseball, and when you consider that baseball has way more games per season...

Access to build the columns between the tracks and the road with the Pike open?

In the alternatives with a "Brandon Hall/Fairbanks Street", I get that's probably just to communicate which two stations it's replacing, but with the diagram they drew Fairbanks Street really has no relation to the station.

I think it's the first one - the time spent making the detour probably exceeds the toll. The major road alternatives to the Turnpike - the river roads, North Beacon Street/Brighton Avenue, Arsenal Street - end up using Galen to access Newton Corner.

It probably will never be great, but MassDOT found that about 40% of traffic to/from the west (by my lived experience the worst for congestion in the interchange) is tied to areas in East Watertown and Brighton that could theoretically be served by an Exit 129 (slide 29)...

November Board slides are up: https://www.massport.com/sites/default/files/2024-12/Website-November-Board-Meeting-11.21.24.pdf Decent amount of detail about projects at E, B, A, and the North Service Area.

Not to mention that RBX will actually make MBTA maps less pretty, since they will require a serpentine with two bends for the Blue Line to keep anything like the current configuration of the other lines. The fact that this will be required for an extension that is perfectly-straight tells you...

It's also a lot of money for someone to donate to a building that already has someone else's name on it.

I'm not sure if you're referring to the people supporting it in the wider world or here on aB, but on this site it has only been supported for its operational benefits.

Two of those three categories would leave the unit empty most of the time, and more relevant to the initial conversation, they would care less about the nature of the immediate area vs. the centrality of the location (and accessibility from out-of-town through the Airport and South Station) as...

53% is a dominant number? I'd argue that absentee owners don't need to be a majority for their presence to dominate and define a neighborhood. 47% non-owner-occupied dominates way more than 53% owner-occupied does.

Do we know that people are living in these units? The Seaport has been dominated by investment properties and pied-a-terres.

Rawn and Hacin nailed it. Silver brick is just a terrible idea for this location and climate, especially applied to a building with a curving facade, which just enhances the feeling that they wish they could do metal. They also have pictures in the presentation of the University of Iowa...

And that tunnel kind of became infamous for its closure - running across Mass Ave from the bus wasn't entirely safe and it was a symbol of the degradation of the system. The bigger deal would be reopening the Boylston Street entrance, but at the moment that still depends on Peebles and I think...

Ironically, the building ended up with a lit-up script logo after all.

There are buildings that give that sense of scale in the daytime, too. The Sears and Hancock in Chicago are great examples, IMO. It's not just that they are huge, they look huge in all the right ways. Curtain walls just give a different effect. The Sears Tower and 1WTC are essentially the same...

"Bold and elegant visual statement". "Both stunning and subtle". Yeah, okay guys. From the outside on the windowless sides people will think this is a screen for a steam vent. If this is what MIT thinks is stunning, I don't know why anyone would hire an architect trained there.

That's an interesting point. I'm not sure I agree that the state should be pushing Massport harder - as I've been able to tell it's the other way around. Massport is pretty aggressive with pushing people not to drive to the airport, while the legislators and their constituents are doing the driving.