Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End
Could have been a cool project except what happened to the train station and the Garden?
Anything that is done here should have as its primary goal making the area more pleasant and safe to walk around. And secondarily, enabling an infill commuter rail station.
The I-90 (Allston) interchange redesign could greatly improve the surrounding neighborhood. I don't see any such benefit from fiddling with the 128/93 interchange.
If you run more Cape Cod trains from Boston, and reinstate the service from NYC and Providence, wouldn't that eliminate the need for any more highway bridges?
What happened here? I assume the white building on the right used to have a row of glass display windows. The street looks like it has 'good bones' and yet it's derelict.
if Fox25 forecast is to be believed, there will only be about 2 inches of snow before midnight, with the rest coming afterward. So the 2pm closure seems premature.
I'd say that Allston still has very much a "sense of place", but its "hub of activity" is now around the Harvard and Brighton Ave intersection rather than at the old train station location.
Why didn't the contraflow "lane" arrangement work for the trolleys? Seems like it would keep them out of most of the rotary's congestion --- and maybe it should even be revived for the current buses.
There are bus shuttles all over the Waltham office-park area from Alewife station. See http://128bc.org. One of their shuttles also intercepts the Fitchburg line at Waltham Center.