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I can only speak to my own experiences on the existing Acelasover the years, but it should be interesting to see how the new carriages and service tiers are implemented as the new fleet is rolled out.

The Acelas only offer Business or First Class — on the existing trains, First Class has fewer seats per carriage as they have more single seats on each side of the aisle, and a meal and drinks are included, which are served at your seat.

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Does @F-Line to Dudley or anyone else have any updates on the Acela Avelia roll-outs? If it’s still for this spring I’m surprised there are no promotions for it.

Celebration, FL is at least New Urbanist in its design — it actually has human-scaled streets and alleys lined with buildings to create outdoor “rooms” for socializing, shopping, people-watching, etc., in addition to wide, auto-dominated parkways. This is just access roads and parking lots with...

S P R A W L I N G P A R K I N G L O T S Is this anyone’s idea of a Town Center? It looks like another Maine Mall / Mallside amalgamation.

the renderings looks so great and what a good reuse of that Tower! What’s up with the upside-down flag over the awning in the second image? Ouch!

Has this project broken ground yet?

Does the Pike really need to be eight lanes there? Both the Commonwealth and the City have stated they are trying to reduce carbon footprints and invest in transit.

👏 F-Line to Dudley for President (of NNEPRA)! 👏

True that the Abyssinian House has an amazing cultural history as the third oldest African American church in the U.S; what’s distinct about the history of the Pattern Building is it’s connection to the invention of an end-to-end process for manufacturing steam-railroad locomotives, as well as...

Agree about the tree beds interrupting the pedestrian flow in front of such a big building — maybe in a future iteration they can be moved into a parking space. “Park”-ing space.

What about a "yes, and..." rather than an "either or..."? Seems like one could prioritize seating AND have clear 'desire lines' thru the space by incorporating more small cafe tables and chairs, which are more permeable to walk thru. Cafe tables and chairs offer many more seating arrangements...

Covering part of Spring Street would further ruin the street for residents of Portland in the service of transient visitors attending conventions. The only footprint on the peninsula that could accommodate a CC is Top of the Port, where most people want to see towers, not wide, blank walls and...

What about a ‘brise soleil’ or arbor frame that provides shade in summer and allows the sun in winter — they are installed at just the right angle for both. Then maybe climbing greenery or climbing hydrangeas to complement elms, beech or sycamores? Beech can be pruned to be shaped like oversized...

Was a composition considered that ran the tree planters from street to the back, rather than across the space? That could create more of an “alée” or “bosque” feeling and draw people’s eyes through the space to the water feature on the textured wall at the back. Also, if you’re concerned about...

Agree, and it seems likely the plan would only need to carry two tracks over Congress Street, for through-service trains; two more tracks could terminate at the station for more-frequent service southbound, and for overnight train storage. Those terminating tracks wouldn't even need to be...

Good question and that shouldn’t be required given that there is just over a half mile to raise the tracks before crossing Congress Street. And if Park Avenue needed to be slightly raised to be more flood resistant, the viaduct project could extend over Park as well. The TIF district should be...

A visual overview of how a new station district could emerge and be leveraged to fund construction of both a new station and an extension of the Park Avenue viaduct to safely cross Congress Street.

Agree and if there were ever a better administration to make a request for funding a rail initiative, I’ve never heard of them. This should be turned into a Request for Proposals immediately so as to qualify for funding while Collins is still a chair on the Senate Appropriations Committee —