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Interesting, I think I remember that the new regional bikeshare RFP wanted to try make it easier for towns like Medford, Newton, Watertown, and Arlington to dip into the program for just a couple docks in the neighborhoods where it makes sense. For Arlington I'd imagine that they want docks at...

Here's the Barr Foundation with a comprehensive post on their strategy to support climate change resiliency in Boston: https://www.barrfoundation.org/blog/climate-resiliency-efforts-in-boston In addition to the $336K they gave UMass to study harbor barriers and financing, they also gave the...

And here we have our perfunctory challenge from Tito Jackson: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/want-become-mayor-city-boston/TYzhdBedgz1V0eidjiBwUM/story.html

The old South Bay Harbor Trail proposal is back, the city now has funding to link Albany Street in the South End through to the Harborwalk on Fort Point Channel. Very little info up now but they have a meeting on January 26th...

Who's making the request, is Holiday Inn planning to expand or was it sold to someone? I have to admit I have always liked walking past their building and looking into their tropical forest walkway.

I got a message with garbled unicode and a sketchy link that will probably do terrible things to my computer from user simthang2001 today, but I see that Our Boys in Blue have already banished them.

Art Park is still in appeal. The judge is still confident that her decision will stand, the developer is still proposing to build what we saw years ago, and the city is still enthusiastic about the design...

We're in a mayoral election year, but nobody wants to run against Marty Walsh. Maybe we'll get a perfunctory challenge from Tito Jackson but it looks like Walsh is in for an easy win.

Hardly a Boston suburb, but the Berkshire Eagle has a story on how MassDOT is prepping an update for the 2008 Statewide Bicycle Plan: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/massdot-shifts-bike-promotion-strategy-from-trails-back-to-streets,494040 This will be interesting to see as it's...

The Queensberry Street Garage is probably going up on the market: This is a big hole in the center of the neighborhood and would be a great place for some nice contextual 5-10 story brick apartments.

Snow clearing on the Mass Ave cycle track: Before: After:

The Boston map launched recently: https://ride.report/boston Not too much data on there yet, I bet they are discarding some routes that are only used by a few people with the app to preserve anonymity. I don't get how the block-by-block rankings work since I'm only asked to rate each ride as...

Flood barrier work is finally starting to get serious this winter. Boston released the Climate Ready Boston plan last month which proposes a wide variety of response, preparedness, and protective measures. It includes discussions of district-wide measures to protect vulnerable coastal...

Re: Storm surge in Boston It turns out that just last week the Barr Foundation gave the Umass Sustainable Solutions Lab $336,000 to study and compare several harbor-wide barrier configurations: http://northendwaterfront.com/2017/01/making-bostons-waterfront-climate-ready-harbor-barrier-study/...

Re: Storm surge in Boston Are any public agencies actively spending money planning barriers for Boston Harbor?All I can find so far are concepts from non-profits and academia. Public agencies still seem to be working out the impacts and estimating sea level rises and storm surges. Obviously...

Hey, Boston now has a bike lane work plan that isn't part of any special initiatives and isn't funded by the state or the feds: https://www.boston.gov/departments/boston-bikes/neighborhood-bike-projects Nothing ambitious but nice to see boring everyday progress again after it ground to a halt...

More good reviews of Everett's Broadway bus lane. The original plan was to do a one-week demonstration this fall, take it down, and then do a longer-term pilot in the spring. Now they've decided to keep the demonstration going for as long as possible...

The project team just emailed out a nice 2016 summary/2017 look-ahead: YEAR IN REVIEW Looking Back at 2016 - Looking Ahead to 2017 During the course of 2016, the Casey Arborway project has continued to make progress towards completion. This document is intended to provide abutters...

Here's a list of the suburban bike infrastructure I can recall opening this year. Not that many, I'm sure I missed a few bike lane installations somewhere. New or improved infrastructure that opened in 2016 • Northern suburban projects: A couple more segments of repaved Minuteman Bikeway in...

Filling some of Old Harbor like in your map is the last easy land fill job left in Boston. Would this be completely legally impossible due to waterfront protections?