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Walking by earlier this morning, we've got steel beams poking up out of the ground, plus some nifty construction structures. They've probably gone up within the last week or so- I don't recall exactly when I last walked by, but I don't remember seeing these before. Sorry I didn't have my...

At a glance, this sounds fantastic. I'm especially intrigued by the possibility of building features into the service. This often has very good results, such as all the nifty google maps hacks. I'd expect internet providers to fight this, trying to protect their proffits at the expense of a...

So we've got one of those elections things coming up (two counting the primaries). The governor's race in particular is relevant to a lot of the development stuff we're discussing here. I haven't chosen a candidate yet, although I'm leaning towards Deval Patrick. I'm curious to hear your...

One appeared in Back Bay within the last few days. Somewhere on Boylston or Newbury. They announced this program a while back. I think it's supposed to save money eventually by reducing how freqently they need to be collected. They do take up more space on the sidewalk, but they're also a...

Apparently they are taking the T... and finding that commuter rail is broken too: link I put up a separate thread about the commuter rail technical difficulties since that's a whole separate can of worms.

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^ My father was born in the USA, shortly after his parents fled Swabia (Ulm), because it was a bad time and place to be Jewish. They were among the last to get out before the Holocaust situation got really bad. It was interesting watching Germany in the World Cup. Aparently, ever since WWII...

It's hard to imagine this station being closer to the airport than the DC Metro gets to Reagan airport, which is right across the street. Perhaps by "the closest rail station to an airport in the United States" they mean heavy rail and not metro. Re: the parking garage: is it just me, or...

I was inspired by vanshnookenraggen to create a long, funny-sounding username. Quadratdackel is the funniest-sounding of the handful of old school Schwabish (SW Germany) words my father has taught me. It literally translates to "quadruple dachsund" (hence the avatar) which means "really really...

So you're suggesting that once all these new dorms are built, the local colleges will decide to increase their enrollment because now there's more space for students? I haven't heard any suggestion that that would happen. The key difference between students and cars is that the student...

You're probably right. (And thanks! If only we could bring the decision makers into these discussions...) Personally, if I had a job in Peabody, I'd want to live in Peabody, or in the city. But, if I lived in Attleboro and had a reason to go to Peabody, I'd want to take the commuter rail to...

This project should have taken place smack down on the should-be-demolished Midtown Hotel on Huntington Ave across from the Christian Science plaza. That would put it right in the middle of the Avenue of the Arts district, half a block from Symphony Hall, and guarantee that it would be a major...

This is why the $1B tunnel under Longwood Ave (and beyond- usually as part of the Urban Ring) probably is worth it: Longwood is a downtown in the making. Major downtowns get built when a very large number of workers benefit financially from being within close proximity to each other...

There's a bus depot and some industrialish stuff off Washington St towards Forest Hills in JP, but the surrounding area coexists just fine. Sure, these things are not beautiful, except in a dark, post-industrial urban wasteland sort of way (perhaps I have strange aesthetics, as I generally...

The big problem with the new West End is it's really bad from the sidewalk level: tall apartment towers isolated from the street by fences broken up by parking garage access ramps; wide, car-oriented streets, and a complete lack of ground-level retail or other public amenities. Basically, a...

Did anyone else watch the World Cup final? ABC kept flashing shots of Government Center, where the city smartly set up a screen for watching the match. It was the only spot in the US they cut to. (Now that's some high quality, inexpensive publicity!) The setup was supposed to be a nod to the...

^ The regional real estate situation is much different now than it was in the 80's. Everything's expensive here, and many people want a more urban environment and good transit access. Downtown Attleboro is also two quick stops from downtown Providence and will soon be three quick stops from TF...

So is the theory that high housing prices are keeping companies away from here wrong, or are housing prices so high because of all the new high-paid corporate workers here? Either way, this is good news, and will help motivate developers to ramp up construction downtown.

Attleboro's one of the few stops on the commuter rail to Providence that seems worth getting off at and exploring. It may be getting even better soon: link

Yeah, this is about the easiest shutdown to handle that could happen accross the entire system, since it's a short enough walk from Heath St to Brigham Circle (half a mile sounds about right) and the high-frequency 39 bus is already up and running along that stretch and being used by many...