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The Inn @ Harvard at the top of Harvard Square (Junction of Quincy, +Mass/Harvard Aves', and Bow St.) is closed for renovations. That 'hotel' I always felt at only three stories was awfully short. It'll host Dunster House while that building goes under renovation. -- The Inn at Harvard to...

They're not lying. That's pretty rutine and MBTA. Do you think they actually hold meetings about things? Nah. They post notices on little bulliten boards at the bus/train garages.

Re: NorthPoint Cambridge (The one that was train yards, the big plan.) Another useless fact, the rings show the distance in miles from Boston's seat of government. A 1892 proposal was for Boston to acquire all cities / towns within eleven miles of downtown. That map (...

Re: NorthPoint Cambridge (The one that was train yards, the big plan.) Lol @ description. Boston would not have been Boston if that was built. "Clammers" around modern day Logan Airport would likely have been decimated. Coming through the whole Dwight D. Eisenhower 'System of Interstate and...

Re: 1350 Boylston People in Western Massachusetts don't want anymore of their tax dollars going to the MBTA/Turnpike nor Big Dig because they're sick of paying for Eastern Massachusetts development using their share of the tax dollars. Until Mass. can figure out how to boost funding for these...

Re: NorthPoint Cambridge (The one that was train yards, the big plan.) Essentially almost all of that area was water... Later "Lechemere" swamp etc. One can observe a stretch of swamp all the way back to what is Twin City Plaza area. Here's one map I had come across from as recently as...

Are they allowing buildings to be built west of Mass. Ave? I recall years ago when a rich family at my private schools bused a bunch of my classmates in to protest the idea of decking over the Turnpike close to Fenway Park. The Fenway Studios building at 30 Ipswich Street contains a bunch of...

From the otherside. The former Boston Edison's building is the one next to that burnt out one. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_Edison_High_Street_Station_(3575693932).jpg The ten story pink building to the left is the MBTA Operations Control Centre. (45 High Street) aka...

I've been expanding the architectural-styles space on Wikipedia. What do you mean by "bays"? bay windows? Also stone church? or wooden? Also was it a church interior or exterior? Weird styles? Cat:Hammerbeam roofs? (meaning kinda shaped like a clover arch inside.) I'm trying to remember the...

This shows this could be an effective way to run express-service past the slow zones directly to/from Boston and work outwards from this new route on the periphery. Does a decrease in stops really make a route faster? I seem to notice a tendency of the MBTA when placing new bus stop of placing...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I thought one of the big dig's agendas was to have concrete walls of the current big dig extend all the way down to bedrock so that in the event a rail tunnel was needed, all they'd have to do is excavate the soil between those walls and they'll have...

Thanks for positing. Look at all those greens along with the Mass Turnpike! As I felt, that's where its at as a commuter! The 502/504/554 etc. Sometimes quicker in West Cambridge to head outbound get one of those and sail into Back Bay in no time. There just needs to be better connection...

Re: Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part IV (2011) Totally agree. Might even be able to go down far enough to be able to build a road deck outside of the current footprint. Has to be deep enough to clear the gas tankers that come in and we're in business. Does Charlestown might have a...

Sorry. I was checking my many email inboxes trying to locate the reply but wasn't able to find it now. I did come across more news from the City of Cambridge/DCR. -- City of Cambridge (Official) 6/4/2013 The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the City of Cambridge are pleased...

How crazy is that? How crazy is this. Cambridge is digging up all the streets in West Cambridge to do this sewer re-construction. After that, these repaved roads can't be dug up for seven years. People have filed all kinds of city council orders trying to force the city to wire for...

Corner of Harvard & Brighton Aves.?

When I worked out at B.C. but was taking classes in South End the 51 was so unreliable it was actually quicker for me to walk to Back Bay, hop on the Orange, take that to DTX, walk the tunnel to Park get on the Green (D) to Reservoir and take the B.C. shuttle to the campus. The alternative of...

I don't think the Urban ring is casted far enough west to be effective. I think the Urban Rings's role could be a new way to expand new bus routes into the 128 corridor, or create better connections between commuter rail stations outside the main central downtown core. I would rather have seen...

While indoors they can treat the front of the building as the back. The actual back of the complex has the entire Alewife Brook wetlands virtually at its doorstep. They can make that the side of the building as the area where they spend most of their leisure.

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center Did Boston Properties own it before or after the walkways were glassed in? I vaguely remember the place being a cold cold snow swept wind tunnel before everything was glassed in at the foot of the tower.