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Thanks, yeah, that was the sadly the conclusion I was coming to. About the different sized cars, though, there are some standards around parking space sizes, or cities can make them up, or use an average or something. And cities actually do this sometimes. Here's a map of Cambridge's Broadway...

Does anyone know where I could find some inventory of on-street parking spaces? I'm looking for per city, or per neighborhood, or per street, or whatever data sources are out there for the Boston area. Clearly on-street parking comes up all the time in fights about bike lanes, bus lanes, and...

Agreed. Reducing CO2 is so important, and this seems like such a bad way of going about it. Just to drive this home, here's a website mapping CO2 emissions per household for every zip code in the country. Any neighborhood in Boston already produces a half or a third of the carbon emissions of...

This was brought up on another thread, and some are already critical over there http://archboston.com/community/threads/boston-to-update-its-zoning-code.6922/post-495294 Um, I think I'll respond over there in the zoning thread. But yeah. Ass backwards.

Boston Indicators worked with TransitMatters for this report that came out a couple weeks ago. They're recommending zoning changes to build more density around existing transit. There are some city comparisons, and analysis looking for under utilized transit stops. It's interesting...

This guy gives a brief history of what you're looking for In short, the disjointed network and culs-de-sac were thought to be traffic safety measures. Professional organizations put them in their standards in the 1950s, states followed, and it's been slow getting rid of them. Those are also...

That's an interesting proposal. But what I keep wondering is how much of Everett's industrial space will/should be redeveloped? First, just factually, how much is planned to be redeveloped? There are a lots of proposals, for some squiggly chunks of land, and I can't keep straight the status or...

Years ago, I got a picture of this site as the Boston Herald building was getting torn down. Not quite "dirty old Boston" yet. But from 2013, that's older than I I was thinking.

Yeah, I got a little carried away analyzing any possible station, and I should have really highlighted my answer to your original question. I would say the essential Everett stations are Everett Square and Glendale. That's where there is the highest density. That's were you can set up good bus...

Like I was saying, though, graft is possible in basically any government program. That doesn't make those government programs bad. The graft is bad. For example, we can have an MBTA and still prosecute anyone trying to bribe the MBTA. Likewise, we can have traffic enforcement cameras and...

By "lifestyle choices," you mean "speeding?" The proposal is to automatically ticket people who are speeding. There's nothing in that press release that says the system was being overzealous. They were ticketing people who ran red lights. That is exactly what it was supposed to do. And I...

With that long winded explanation of my thinking out of the way, here's how I would evaluate station locations: Everett Square - Yup. Easy. Dense residential. Apartment buildings. Businesses. City Hall and other government offices. Medical clinics. Good bus connections from along Broadway...

Hehe. I brought up the idea of automation as I was thinking over your question. I seem to have derailed the conversation with that. Sorry about that. I think the Orange Line deviation is a neat idea, but agree with most of the criticism. Here are some general thoughts: I'll guess you've come...

According to this the APM was planned to cost "$1 billion or more." https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/04/25/logan-airport-study-transit-link-terminals-and-mbta-station/FBbrtsOUxiRYizi0h0ZUuJ/story.html

@TheRatmeister Thanks for pulling out that data. But I'm not sure I follow some of your conclusions In that hypothetical, I'm not sure what's wrong with ridership numbers dropping at those specific stations. The goal isn't to keep ridership numbers high at Wellington Station. The goal is to...

Agreed. But I have been thinking about how some modern tech would relate to branching. Right now the Orange Line is aiming for 4.5(?) minute headways when the new signaling upgrades are done. If there's a branch to Everett, then Malden gets a train every 9 minutes at peak, which is...

Yeah, that is an odd place to prioritize for improvements. I was recently reading someone arguing we should really be triaging when picking streets to improve. (It must have been in Walkable City by Jeff Speck.) Basically, cities spend too much of limited resources trying to improve streets...

I don't totally understand this concern about living on top of a firehouse. People already live immediately adjacent to fire stations, and they hear the alarms. I don't know how living on top of the fire station would be any worse. With modern construction, there would be a thick concrete slab...

Jeez, I wish someone had piped up with an answer to this. I also think that would be really interesting to know. Just considering it through a bit, I think whatever number you get would be a small fraction of the number of housing units actually lost though the planning process. There would...

Just a follow-up on the public comments last night: Lots of people showed up to speak, in person or virtually. They had to limit speaking time to one minute each, and it still went about two and half hours. I checked in on the live stream just time to time, and the Fors and Againsts seemed...