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The original rotary replacement, I don't see the point. The current rotary acutally works fairly well.

It's a rounded Hancock and I absolutely love it. This is by far the best development in the past few years, both for taking down the garage over congress and this masterpiece.

Orange line over the mistic will never happen. I could totally see the sliver line being extended beyond market basket though, ideally it should be extended into Kendall, but just to the orange line would be totally doable.

I'd include Peabody over Danvers. Peabody has a row for transit in the future, Danvers that's very unlikely as the row is being repurposed to a bike path. Anyway your point stands that the north shore is definitely dense enough for rapid transit.

Beyond those three, Beverly is up there and allows 6 story multifamily zoning by right along rantoul street next to the train station.

Fenway has been built up with height along Boylston over the past couple of years.

I thought it would be interesting to discuss the new zoning requirements for communities with mbta stations and neighboring communities. It'll be interesting to see how many towns comply and if any decide to forgo certain state funding. I'm a big fan of this effort though. Hopefully it works...

I'm disappointed that the street level plans do not have bike lanes.

Almost every target in existence, with the exception of downtown, Fenway, BU and central square. Suburban targets have the world's largest parking lots and they're never full.

Worcester has it's own local economy, it's success is not because of Boston commuters.

The perfeered location for south Nashua is at the pheasant lane mall in the NHDOT slide deck. I don't think it would be hard to get Simon on board. It makes their land more valueable for TOD, and the station would be right next to what's currently a vacant sears building.

There's currently a state program that pays farmers the difference between the developer value of the land and the farm only value of their land. When that occurs the property is restricted to farming or preservation use forever. It's funded by the state. Not exactly what you're proposing but...

The infrastructure bill is why this project is being discussed about again. It includes 125 million towards transit in NH. Anyway, for the mass portion, are there any plans for infill stations? Maybe a 2nd Lowell and Chelmsford station?

The mbta cut back on most express routes during the pandemic and they haven't come back yet. With the exception of Winchester, Lowell Line stops are pretty spread out making express trains less of a necessity. Though if the MBTA were to ever electrify, than express trains basically become a...

Couple of years ago I used to go to that station regularly before moving out of my parents place. Though Anderson Woburn was generally more convinent. Last morning rush hour train was around 630 am, so it didn't get much ridership at all. Not a station that's worth spending money on, no TOD...

I was thinking of the build back better act, not the infrastructure bill.

The current inflationary environment is definitely hurting the chances of that bill passing.

Encore does not want an easy walk to the restaurants at assembly. They want their visitors to pay for the overpriced food and drinks at the casino.

So schools are a large portion of municipal budgets for most communities. The one good part for municipalities about most new development is that the burden on schools for studio/1/2 bed apartments is that the number of children per unit is much lower than it is with single family and larger...

Not really sure how you can improve that. If anything I'd do something to the Columbia road exit instead, due to it being accident prone/unsafe. Although it's much more difficult to do anything in urban areas than it is in the suburbs.