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All the photos a great, but that first one is phenomenal. Thanks!

Riser rings for manholes to bring them up to grade are not that hard to install.

Thanks for the clarification on the discounts for low income.

A discount for low income people should be provided. As it stands now it's a flat fee on all drivers, a regressive tax.

Apples and oranges. Japan is a totally different culture than the US.

I thought it was a picture of the new South Station tower, LOL

That is concerning. I grew up in a public housing project similar to, and of the same vintage as, the old Bromley-Heath project, and we had plenty of playgrounds, plus a public swimming pool up the street. That was Jefferson Park in North Cambridge. So, I think it basically sucks to cram in...

I just hope there's no net loss of open space and playgrounds of the new complex vs. the old. There will be hundreds, maybe thousands, of kids living in these buildings.

Totally agree. The tracks were just copied from that particular MassDOT plan iteration.

The red/brown (masonry?) ground floor makes the entire building fit in perfectly with the row of adjoining buildings along the block. Context sensitive design played well here. The Shreve Crump and Lowe replacement building could have followed this type of context sensitive approach and worked...

Strange!

For a pedestrian/bike/bus bridge at Babcock Street over the tracks and Mass Pike, there is a way to fit it in with no taking of buildings, or any substantial right-of-way acquisition. Build the ramp to it right on Babcock street starting at Gardner St, then at Ashford St it becomes a viaduct...

Great that they finished the lid over to Brookline Ave.

This is a quick and dirty concept of what I have in mind:

The proposed street system obviously is primarily for the movement of cars between SFR, the Mass Pike, and Cambridge Street, period. For that reason, the proposed streets are designed very wide, pretty much like designing an expressway interchange in the form of a superblock street grid. My...

Never knew Mass Ave. between Porter and Harvard Square had trees down the middle, not to mention a lot of mature trees along the sides. I'm guessing the trees got wiped out when the Mass Ave. electric trolley car line was built.

And busses.

Unfortunately no. Just definite memories of 1964/65 when I was in high school in Cambridge, hearing some of my teachers remarking on the proposal, and also me reading articles about it in the Cambridge Chronicle. There was even talk of making SFR eastbound traffic only and Memorial Drive...

The suspended railway in your streetview link (screenshot below) could just as easily be a normal elevated railway, with the tracks mounted on top of the horizontal beams in that suspended railway structure. Sure, the structure would be a few feet wider on each side of the two parallel beams...

Wow, quite the pendulum swing from the mid-1960s when roadway underpasses and ramps were being pushed by the MDC for Memorial Drive at JFK Street, River Street and Western Ave, which would have wiped out much of the old sycamore trees, and transformed Memorial Drive into an expressway.