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Re: Prudential Ctr/Exeter St Apartment Tower The Boylston St. office building should be exactly the height of Mandarin, and pick up its cornice lines. They'll make a much better ensemble that way. justin

Re: New tower at Aquarium parking lot. By the time this gets built, inflation will cut that figure to size.

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop ^Which potential Boston has by all appearances lost, and should first prove it has re-acquired it on a blank slate like the Seaport before messing with the good stuff we got. I'm all with you for saving Shreve; I might even allow...

Re: North-South Rail Link ^Incompatibility of power supplies (and state governments), I believe.

Re: North-South Rail Link The main benefits of this project would be, as you say, to unburden the subway and better distribute commuters downtown (which is why a station around State St. is essential), to provide operational flexibility and, ideally, to provide frequent service on what would...

Re: Mandarin Oriental ^Nothing. It's the name of the chain.

Skip North Station: a subway line could go Chelsea> Bunker Hill Monument > Navy Yard> North End > State > P.O.Sq...> S.Station (really deep) >???

Is that just a proposal or has it been chosen, and if so when will it get built?

Yes, the IND stations along Central Park West are known for spontaneous riots.

He's a visionary alright, of the worst kind: all his great ideas are bad.

^Dang, there goes my cover... I've been to busy with the debates lately to post much here. Rjustin

I can understand needing more cars, but why would a new car design be needed?

The point isn't to make your particular commute easier; it's to better disperse transfering passengers.

Not a danger: it will be implanted under your skin. justin

Urban ring and Allston are apples and oranges. Even if Allston becomes a major employment center, I doubt it will rival Kendall's combination of unversity campus and commercial office space hub. Moreover, Allston is too far out to usefully serve one of UR's main goals, which is providing for...

Is anybody going to any Open House New York events this weekend: www.ohny.org? I've been meaning to ask if any of the archBostonians living in NYC would like to get together, and this seems like the perfect occasion. Send me a pm if you're interested. justin

They're rather clunky pieces of metal.

Menino's got the vision thing again...

Don't hold your breath. The CLF settlement only requires the T to design the extension, and they're starting to fulfill that commitment by this filing. I don't expect a shovel of earth to be turned in the next few decades: Interesting they'd even consider maintaining Bowdoin, which would...

Not the ones in the picture, only the one accross Causeway next to the Garden.