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They do sometimes put sugar in concrete in the summer to slow down the reaction

(Welcome back Diller Scofidio + Renfro!) I was hoping for better, but will hold the criticism until it's completed. The Universal Hub rendering seems to be the most promising currently.

Agree with much of what you said. This seems like a continuous waste of energy and money. This point I excerpted, however, is a big one - MassDOT needs to operate as a DOT, not a highway agency. This is a major transportation node, and there's no need to spend hundreds of millions to billions to...

Their heaters do ;)

Construction Manager - I presumed based on your eager interest in this and the Harvard building you may be a (façade) supplier to the CMs for those - might have been too presumptuous.

Perhaps you should ask your CM for those photos ;)

There's an executive order out right now about placing priority for funding on transportation projects with user pay models. This is right up their alley.

Interesting, because it seems like Eversource not only figured out Framingham, but has some idea of how it would be completed at scale. The Volts podcast has a pretty good episode on Thermal Energy Networks if people are interested.

VMF = Vehicle Maintenance Facility (Existing) MOW = Maintenance of Way The real estate transaction was announced at a Board Meeting in the past year or so, with a very conceptual layout. The expansion is to accommodate the new GL Type 10 cars, and provide MOW needed space.

Man, tosh33 is still filling the comments sections up. I'd like to meet them some day... see if they're foaming at the mouth over building heights in real life as well..

I hate to be a pessimist, but I don't think there will be governor support for this.

Through an FOIA request, I received information on the scope and pricing estimate/bid, for those interested. The estimate was around $13.7M, with $745K in potential VE savings, and the published estimate in the bid advertisement was $13M. The target was $12.3M, which is reasonably close, but...

They do look small, but it might just have to do with the scale of the building. From an interior rendering:

I think the T has stated that due to the amount of disruption this past year, decreased service and shutdowns, they did not feel it was fair to raise fares on the riders for a worse experience. We will see the plan for this year's diversions, which are supposed to be much less disruptive to the...

This isn't surprising... not doing much but looking like they did something... They won't have to fight with public schools, but will have to fight with other transportation agencies. I think it is set up to be 50% for education, 50% for transportation, and this seems to imply the T would be...

There's your answer...

I'm sure they will try to piggy-back on other work where safe, if possible, but this isn't more Orange Line shutdowns next month specifically for track/signal work - it's for a crumbling MassDOT bridge that already required one 9-day shutdown. I'm sure the T is footing the diversion costs...

It really is quite an exciting entrance to the city, especially for travelers from Logan coming in.

Well these are much more level-headed than my perhaps grouchy comment before going to bed. Definitely makes sense, and is certainly a good business decision for CFS. The simple answer is Venture Capital has to change. How? I'm not so sure. Maybe just get rid of it.

That would be my guess - looks like the stairs and controlled entry gate were updated recently but the truck pad entrance has a Keolis sign on Google Street View in October 2023..