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The Town of Brookline Emerald Necklace Route 9 Crossing project has been awarded and will be under construction this spring with completion expected by end of summer.

I really hope that you weren't on that! Hmm, could they put the Silver Line tunnel buses on tracks and still use them on the normal streets?

Re: Tremont Crossing in Roxbury Well, geez. Considering that this was a very loose diagrammatic proposal created by one person it shouldn't be surprising that the NIMBY crowd is against it. After all the guy who proposed this didn't come groveling to Yancey when the thought first popped into...

Re: Tremont Crossing in Roxbury JamaicaPlain News has a couple excellent articles on recent developments, both planned and under construction: Forest Hills and South Huntington Ave (warning, the A Choo project may make you violently ill...)...

Jeff, This was discussed in detail, as always by our favorite MBTA geeks (and I mean that in a good way), - it might have been over on the thread for the new replacement red and orange line trains.

The Brookline Transportation Board voted in favor of the "older" buffered bike lane due to a late objection by the Fire Chief. Board will re-vote, likely in favor of the cycle track option if they can convince the Chief that the cycle track option is OK. The reason for the wide 4' buffer and...

Tomorrow night, Feb. 4, 2016 Brookline Transportation Board Meeting MLK Room, Main Entrance, Brookline High School 100 Greenough Street Per the agenda: 7:15 PM Discussion of DPW of current and future public works. I expect that we will find out the results of the Route 9 crossing bids that...

I like your thinking; if we could get someone to pay a few grand for relighting the Moakley bridge we could get it renamed after someone other than Moak's wife. Get Kraft to fund a new bridge to Chelsea, then name it after anyone he wants and then really light it up.

The developer needs to push the Route 9 curbline south much closer to the vehicle travel lane, to allow both a grade separated bike lane at sidewalk level, and a proper tree pit to properly connect to the Gateway East design and to separate bike and ped travel. The Gas Station and it's entry...

Damn, didn't see this until two days late. I'll try to make the Feb 17th one with Sec. Pollack.

Shep, I'm not so sure that Dewey Sq (hardscape portion) is really under utilized - the crowds that pass over it during every morning and evening commute while fleeting are very sizable. It's essentially a very wide pedestrian street between Federal St and South Station. And certainly it needs...

We used to have something like that:

Amazing! I can't wait to use the sharrows on Mass Ave - what an improvement! Lemme guess, the Lex bike advisory committee (who endorsed this plan) is made up of mamils? Hell, it even manages to half-assed for pedestrians - no bumpouts at the mid-block crossing at the Town Office Building, no...

Re: 4 projects that did not get enough props.. Totally agree about the Columbus side, that or a real cornice to add a deep shadow line between the base and the tower. That curved top bothers me though and I can't put my finger on it. And it's not the resemblance to Harvard Stadium. Maybe it's...

As one of the people saying that the stations could be a source of savings, let me be far more clear: complete redesign will likely cost as much as it saves - you gotta pay the design team. Simple value engineering - trimming off an overhang at a station entrance for example - would result in a...

Any opposition to the proposal failed to show. The bike crowd was huge, the biggest opposition to the Beacon Street plans came from Anne Lusk saying that a protected cycle track was what was really needed here. I spoke, and while I had to agree with Anne, I supported the plan and asked for...

I've heard from friends in Brookline that even this will be a very contentious issue. Many people in Brookline don't believe that Beacon will survive a road diet and that bikes really don't belong on Beacon. If you remember what it took to get a few contra-flaw lanes in a few years ago, that...

It opens up the street a bit on Beacon to permit nice views of King's Chapel. It has planters and knee walls low enough that people can sit on them on both Beacon and Tremont. I can't think of anything good to say about the Somerset side once you get past the stairs. Probably pays more in...

F-Line - I'm quite aware of the amazing profits that a contractor can make on Change Orders. I'm pretty sure many contractors bid jobs with very little to no profit margin and try to make it up on CO's. My understanding is that the project (including stations) will be rebid, so no Change...

Remember, that the Casey Arborway was designed nearly three years ago before some of us learned about better bike/ped/traffic design. The Boston Cyclist's Union did try, just before the project went out to bid to get the "mixing zones" fixed and create something more like a protected...