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Three Globe articles last week: nuTonomy, the Cambridge/Singapore startup, is starting a very small test of self driving taxis in Singapore: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/08/25/cambridge-company-launches-self-driving-cabs/LSvfTyf5W2KIx1tYeN0FtL/story.html The Toyota lab is using a...

The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority selected Alta to do the streetscape redesign for Binney Street from Third to Main. Alta's proposal includes linking the existing Vassar Street and Binney Street separated bike lanes and adding a protected intersection at Broadway.

Marty Walsh's urbanism reading list: Now with a survey to pick more books for the Imagine Boston 2030 reading list: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5K5958D

Factory topping off ritual tomorrow: http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2016/08/gov_baker_crrc_executives_to_attend_topp.html

Re: The Factory at 46 Wareham This project is still kicking around, after a brief flirtation with an all-commercial redevelopment it's back to mixed use. The new version includes an automated parking garage below ground, presumably to pack more cars into the limited space.

A 39 unit row house development on Fort Hill is kicking up controversy: http://baystatebanner.com/news/2016/aug/17/controversial-project-raises-abutters-ire/ A block of row houses fits with a lot of Fort Hill's existing mix of row houses and freestanding buildings, so that objection seems like...

Reasonable new Blue Line tunnel: LA just opened a pedestrian tunnel to link their red and orange lines, could a tunnel and moving walkway between State and Downtown Crossing be our cheap red/blue connector? I've seen discussion somewhere on this board that such a thing would be possible by...

The developers filed preliminary plans with the BRA yesterday: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/08/17/bunker-hill-public-housing-readies-for-launch/q84eH9oXHpRpm34S7yw2MP/story.html Nothing on the BRA's website, but there is a new development website with some more renders:

Bus priority wireless infrastructure is going up on traffic signals along Mass Ave in Cambridge: https://twitter.com/CambMA/status/765619215935995904

Great pictures, is mid-2017 still the target for opening?

The downtown Connect Historic Boston cycle track is delayed by a few months, and the rest of the project is pushed out to next year. Most of it will be finished in late autumn rather than late summer, and the final part by Christopher Columbus Park won't happen until next year. The Charlestown...

The water taxis would actually be more than a neat tourist thing if the fares were per trip like a land taxi rather than per rider like a transit vehicle. Maybe that kills their business model but splitting a $15 water taxi fare three ways from the Seaport to North Station is going to be a much...

Cambridge installed sharrows on Cambridge street where Amanda Phillips was killed. Green bike lane striping through the intersection is coming next week. The Boston Cyclists Union is studying parking in the area to build the case for creating protected bike lanes, which the city has endorsed...

This is the type of thing that creates NIMBYs, what a nightmare for the neighbors.

That's what it smells like. Several of the LAZ employees have been removed from their jobs.

U Mass Boston just digitized an old film that's halfway between a documentary on the harbor at its dirtiest, and a Boston version of Koyaanisqatsi. The core is about ten minutes of a narrated helicopter flight over the Harbor Islands in 1969, some really great footage: https://vimeo.com/174398217

Revenue from the parking operation is up now that the T and LAZ are investigating discrepancies between revenue collected and parking counts: http://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/t-parking-revenue-is-up-but-why/ Considering that a lot of these lots are full or near full I highly doubt...

That's the alignment, you can see construction progress on Google Satellite now! Both the canopy walk and the new bridge over the river are in, some of the pavement is already laid, and the path should open this fall.

One of the lessons I took from reading (the reviews of) Janette Sadik Khan's book is that people will loudly oppose any change in how limited urban street space is divvied up between users. It doesn't really matter if they're orienting it more or less towards cars, there will be loud resistance...

There are several vacant lots the city wants to dispose of on Mission Hill, neighbors are split on using them for parking, park space, or housing for long-term residents: http://missionhillgazette.com/2016/08/05/open-space-housing-dev-possible-for-vacant-lots/ And the Art Park lawsuit is...