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It's also a pedestrian safety issue since it separates the crossing, but also helps operations since the green line driver will not have to look out for pedestrians running across the tracks. The fare lobbies are a good thing, too: prepayment equals easy boarding and deboarding as all doors...

Sweet! Those stainless steel panels for the Zakim abutment never looked better.

Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End Substantial Completion is much farther down the construction timeline than you want. You are looking for a Temporary Occupancy Permit to allow a small portion of the building(s) to be used. It can be done with either...

Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End Seriously? Not only will it have melt water dripping through it for days after every snowstorm but it only looks wide enough for one way traffic. If they don't put a roof membrane over then I support a petition that...

The multi-use path to greenway is supposed to be built by the Lovejoy Wharf Developer according to what I was told at Connect Historic Boston meetings. So we should be able to expect that to be complete by next summer. Not shown in that diagram is the cantilevered walkway on the east side of...

Actual brick and mortar can be built as part of lift-able backup assemblies. It's not very common, but they may be doing it here.

Mapping Boston edited by Alex Krieger and Daid Cobb The MIT Press, 2001 Planning the City Upon a Hill - Boston since 1630 by Lawrence W. Kennedy The MIT Press 1992 AIA Guide to Boston By Susan and Micheal Southworth The Globe Pequot Press 1st edition 1984, 2nd edition 1992, and 3rd edition...

Re: NorthPoint Cambridge (The one that was train yards, the big plan.) Insulated blankets over the ground and bigger excavators. I doubt very much that blasting would be used here, but 25 years ago during a very cold winter, while working on a building out in north central Mass, blasting...

The City of Boston has been Towing bikes that get reported on Bos311 as abandoned and taking them to the BTD Tow Lot at 200 Frontage Rd just besides the West Fourth St bridge.

The pru was lit up in WalkBoston Orange this evening to celebrate it's 25th Anniversary as part of it's 31 nights of light program.

Sounds like the Salem BAC had to deal with a department as idiotic as the Boston Public Works Dept. No actual changes despite policy changes and absolutely no public process. But BACs can work if the local transportation and public works departments believe in making their community better for...

WOW! No bikes on the snowy streets, but one automobile at 2:14. Anyone know what it is?

You know, this might be the first time that I'm thankful I'm no longer subscribed to the Globe. If I had read those articles I'd probably be so pissed off about the 911 truthers and not sleep most of the night.

Wow, so much graffiti, but I really like the graffiti in the underpass. I'm surprised the bike lanes are so narrow, but I guess that's why we don't think of Germany as a premier city bike country. I'm amazed a station could have that many lines running into it. Sure tells you what Germany's...

Re: The Commons at Forest Hills | 3593-3615 Washington St | Jamaica Plain From way down Hyde Park Ave: From the Bus Yard: A half covered mock-up (really makes me wonder about those white trimmed windows with black brick - if only that damned banner wasn't there...):

Looks like the Marlboro bike lanes are because of MassDOT. Likely the R.O.W. wasn't too constrained, so MassDOT wasn't in a position to drop it as they have on so many projects where the R.O.W. is narrowish. To go without bike accommodations on a MassDOT project these days requires a design...

I always thought that darker band near the top of the Hancock was a row of louvers for the HVAC system.

A few of the smaller urban centers have had revitalization studies done by MIT and Tufts that have concentrated on improving foot traffic in their "villages" and promote the viability of these small commercial districts. Roslindale Village has had at least two...

The big dig is over; time for the Boston Bypass Flood Barrier Seaport combo to begin! Maybe we can add a new airport to this as well. Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

Yes, an homage to Alvar Aalto's Baker House at MIT. Aalto's reason for the curves was to give a majority of students a better view of the Charles. Not sure what the majority of tenants will be looking at with the new building. And I'm too lazy to look up Berklee College of Music's latest plans.