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This was reported yesterday: https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2292484-us-northeast-gateway-lng-terminal-resumes-operations

Well, the answer looks to be....burning a lot of oil. ISO-NE tracker was up to >3GW of oil-fired generation running yesterday and it's generally been running at high levels throughout last few days (today's been over 1.5GW all day, 2.7GW peak). The one coal plant left in NH looks to be...

For the alternatively controversial opinion - as far as I'm concerned, that someone named it a "parkway" 80 years ago or whatever instead of a "highway" has no influence on my assessment of what it is/or "should be". From 1A to Downtown Medford, it looks a lot like a major highway to me, and...

I think the obvious questions to my mind (that I can't answer) are: - What's the canopy cost? - What's the incremental cost of a better canopy and how much more weather protection does that buy you? - For that matter, what's the incremental cost of a canopy with as coverage as extensive as...

Well, I'm not sure they'll look as nice as these, but major renovation may not be as far off as you think. Per the 5/24/21 accessibility update - https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2021-06/2021-05-24-swa-initiatives.pdf

The basic summary of my objection is rather simple - Does anyone know what the legal agreements involved actually say? I find it unlikely BSG would have agreed to a "temporary" perk as you describe with some kind of sunset date. It seems much more likely that the state agreed to give them an...

The state decided to cut off other routes to get around their property, and the state now pays for the mile long driveway they have to use to get into it by road instead, is the gist of what I know of this. That seems reasonable in perpetuity? Especially since the state needs access to it for...

I'm certainly not the expert here so feel free to correct me - Isn't the general story that it's part of the deals for building the Big Dig over much of what was BSG's land? "That you're paying for" feels like odd framing for something that I've understood to be a piece of modest...

You can make multiple quotes in a single post, FYI. A lot easier to read. Went looking some more, found this: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021-04-26-fmcb-bus-transformation-update.pdf Looks like Quincy is budgeted at $305m for a stated capacity of 150 buses. $400m for...

Uh, how? They're getting 8 acres of land that's currently parking lot to redevelop and should make Washington St a vastly more coherent place, a better street grid, and a wider natural buffer for the sidewalk/bike path than currently exists. What exactly were you expecting here? They don't...

Legal (IMO) - It's a crossing without a crosswalk or signal, same as if you were to cross some street in a random town. There is no crosswalk or signal a pedestrian should be using instead, so as far as I understand - they can cross legally, but don't have right of way vs traffic. While I...

If the issue is "minor part to finish thing is delayed due to production/supply chain chaos" - then pretty much indefinitely. I do some tech ordering in my professional life. There's been plenty of orders flat-out canceled, sometimes even entire product lines are outright discontinued - even...

I think I found the problem! Who's going to sign up to drive a bus for that? Especially with all the other issues of being the low person in seniority for picking shifts, needing to get/maintain a CDL (and the restrictions on substance use even off the clock), etc. I don't know what a bus...

Do these actually exist for sale in North America/seem likely to exist in the future from a sufficient variety of vendors to get reasonable pricing/have any sort of negotiating power? I ask, as hasn't that been part of why the MBTA has had trouble with what to do with the SL fleet and the...

Disagree, although I don't get the emphasis on stormwater retention. There is a very simple solution to too much water building up behind the floodgate from runoff/waterway flow down the waterway - big pumps. Floodgates are not exactly new technology, and Fort Point Channel is one of the single...

The basic concept of a floodgate seems like an obvious no-brainer, and is the kind of thing that astounds me hasn't been already prioritized. Fund and build it as fast as possible, in that sense. It has significant benefits today, not just for future-proofing. It also looks like it makes sense...

Pretty sure that is more explained by Alewife not existing until a decade after the bridge was built. Acorn Park was a large employment center at the time, and was much more isolated from any other access to any non-car connections beyond it than it is today. Somewhat ironic that only a couple...

They might be referring to the actual text of the RFQ. Which spends 1.5 pages of it's ~3 page length, talking about all the different Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion requirements and the multiple ways they'd like you to write essays about your commitments to those things. Further, from the...

Worth keeping in mind that the Everett St Bridge is not open underneath between Braintree St + what is today "Harvey Steel Rd", it's a not particularly attractive vertical wall/earthen mound that blocks any pedestrian flows E/W along the length of that building and will keep it feeling cut off...

I think the point they were trying to make was regarding dedicated lanes or separate busways. Buses being stuck in traffic is a political choice in that sense, not one inherently required to be a thing that happens on buses in busy areas.