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Transit Matters releases its regional rail recommendations. Namely:

Cambridge Street (Cambridge) separated bike lanes are staying put (Cambridge Day). Quite frustrated by this final paragraph though: Transportation planners are totally down with concrete planters are barriers for the reasons stated: cars can't run them over like they can plastic bollards...

Curbed says we've topped off. (From Commodore Builders)

Someone has (UHub)

Based on US News' rankings, Boston and its immediate neighbors are home to 7 of the top 40 universities in the nation. Around 50% of college graduates move away from Boston (PDF warning), with ~80% of those being "avoidable" (i.e., not moving home to be close to family). That means that there...

Please read what he was responding to—the link I posted clearly shows that double-track rail and a path can exist side by side.

MIT's study of the Grand Junction community path (warning: PDF) says it would be a tight squeeze in a few places, but having the path plus bidirectional rail should be possible (see p. 10 in particular).

Boston city council committee assignments and chairs are out. Although I don't know the specifics of their responsibilities, Michelle Wu chairing the Planning, Development, and Transportation committee means we should be getting shit done this term...

https://twitter.com/danteramos/status/956223511827279873

Quick fixes coming to Porter Square intersection, including reducing 5 light phases to 3 and simplifying some lanes:

These cranes are now dominating the views coming down Hampshire & Broadway. Going to grab a lot of people's attention.

Cambridge universities' Town-Gown reports are now available. Harvard's report includes recent, current, and future on-campus redevelopment [PDF]. They also emphasize their advocacy for West Station (including paying 1/3 the cost) and for more bike lanes on the river bridges and in their Allston...

"‘Frost Terrace’ affordable housing OK’d, will bring 40 units to Porter Square area": Cambridge Day

Per MIT's update via courbanize on Jan 5: Click the link for a few more construction site details.

Maybe someone else knows about forums directly, but there are a number of sites/blogs that have a big focus on development and transportation: SocketSite Curbed SF (better content than Boston's, at least as of a few years ago) Hoodline (more "UHub"-like than others) Streetsblog SF (wish we had...

Capitalism is why it's a gravel lot. The owner has sat on the land for twenty years and not done anything with it besides talk.

More community benefits for MIT's Volpe Center plan (with more details coming this afternoon), per Cambridge Day:

As part of this, Cinderella's will be closing for good (while transferring delivery services to Beauty's, whatever that means). That's unfortunate, especially since they recently remodeled in 2015 or so. I guess their pivot toward a full-service bar & restaurant didn't pan out?

Beacon Street in Boston is finally getting safer, thanks to a protected bike lane, pedestrian improvements, and dropping one lane (from 3 to 2), which won't affect vehicle throughput even at peak...

The thing is, there actually HAS been outreach and discussion. From the Cambridge Day (which has, by far, better reporting than Curbed Boston): It is interesting to see how the movement towards safe bike infrastructure is exposing a big division in the Cambridge business community and...