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From the MassDOT newsletter, today: MassDOT, MBTA Approve Parcel 13 & Hynes Station Deal MassDOT and the MBTA have approved a real estate deal that will leverage more than $30 million in private development funding for the delivery of a state-of-the-art, fully accessible Hynes Convention...

Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End I heard that they wanted an outdoor connection a couple years ago during the Draft Environmental Impact Report review process - I have no idea where or who I heard it from. I assume that they wanted to enliven the...

Re: The Boston Garden (TD Garden Towers) | 80 Causeway Street | West End I'm amazed that they made an internal orange/green connection; I never thought that they would do that. I had understood that the MBTA requested a non-internal connection. A huge win for the commuting public. I really...

Here's a link to the Anderson Bridge underpass presentation by MassDOT in case you skipped it like I did: www.thecharles.org/media/uploads/2013/04/20151022-Anderson-MassDOT_Public_MTG.pdf

Scipio, thanks for the info and the link - great links for the Parkways, too! I skipped the meeting as well - been to too many in the last few weeks. While I am a DCR skeptic - the meetings for Perkins/Parkman and Centre St left a distinctly foul taste in my mouth, what has been shown for...

Re: Lowell 2015 update 166 Central St (a small four story block) has just finished being renovated. I'll try to get pics of the reno'd building soon. It's 75% occupied with an adult day care center as the tenant. The fourth floor, great views and skylights is still available. Before renovation:

Does anyone have the Anderson Underpass presentation to share?

Skatepark to open Nov. 14, 2015 http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/26/lynch-family-skatepark-open-mid-november/uooAeupWFXfoh5VCnVUlQP/story.html

I attended, most people were supportive of the development. Maybe four or five people said that a 1:1 ratio wasn't enough. Only two people were adamant that the parking wasn't nearly enough. A few people spoke that increasing density near the square would help local businesses who have been...

Also try the neighborhood liaison from the Mayor's Office - with Boston Bikes stuck in the Transportation Dept, a push from the Mayor's Office might get it noticed. I've ridden that segment and agree with you completely. Unless it's part of the 18 miles of new bike lanes being installed...

rinserepeat's idea might be pretty good; the proposed path through the Arboretum is as flat as you might expect, so no real reason to avoid the hill on Conway/Arborough: The RR ROW doesn't really have a flat spot to run a path, at least south of the double tracked area where there are two...

Tonight's meeting went far better than the last two meetings with DCR/Beta - Toole seemed very convincing, they showed an animated vissim traffic model over a traffic lane layout that they had went over freehand with markers to give a preliminary sketch type feeling to the presentation. The...

Not everyone, there are many supporters of Tooles Plan. I certainly hope that Toole has been able to develop this and make it work with some traffic models. I'm looking forward to Wednesday's presentation at Faulkner Hospital. I have heard that some of the same people who opposed the Casey...

Henry, That is correct. It took me until I was looking at the floor plans to figure that out. Being that there is a free municipal parking lot adjacent to this development, I can almost hear people shouting that the new residents will be using the parking lot for their own use. If overnight...

Renderings of the new upper busway canopy design (reportedly at 30% design) can be found here: http://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2015/10/04/forest-hills-upper-busway-on-washington-street-razed-over-the-weekend/14131

The DCR meeting last Wednesday also proposed (as one option) a two lane rotary to help make the Walter/Centre Street intersection safer. Of course, the designers described is as a roundabout... I will give them a bit of leeway here; it is smaller than an official MDC rotary; after all we are...

^OUCH! Buildings should know its indecent to let their Cooling Towers show over their mechanical screens. Other than that, she looks decent. A far cry from the large homeless encampment that was there with lean-to's against the bridge abutment 15 years ago.

Whighlander, I really didn't have time this afternoon to get up close and personal with the mock up. I wish I had the time to take a good look and walk around behind it to see it's construction. Maybe sometime next week...

The mock up from another angle, still needs the window installed, so we know it's not complete.

Worse, it's being done as a flood control measure by the Army Corps of Engineers. http://www.muddyrivermmoc.org/ The next construction update is Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 6 PM, at the MMOC office, 68 Harvard Street, Brookline Three years ago, or so, when they had a few public meetings...