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Hard to say. That looks like vents for mechanicals on the ground floor on the right. Do they make sure that's good and loud? Blast damp exhaust on pedestrians? Lots of new buildings do that as an extra FU to passersby.

This a little bit reminds me of Market Central in Central Square, which turned out really nice. It's an 18(?) story tower on top of small-ish food and retail spaces. The businesses that moved in are almost all local chains, founded nearby, with just a few other locations (a coffee shop from...

BERY ran comfort stations, basically public restrooms, like this one in Uphams Corner. This sat abandoned for almost 50 years until it opened as Comfort Kitchen restaurant just last year. (BTW, everyone I know who's been says this is the best restaurant in Boston. I've heard so many positive...

I'm not sure what this part of the plan means. You mean reopening the abandoned train tunnel in Providence? Is this something that's been proposed before?

So, this turnaround is incredible. It's really a cause for celebration. My partner and I are already planning some little trips around the city for the long weekend. Neighborhoods we like but have been a pain to get to. Fixing the slow zones is making our lives bigger. But I'm constitutionally...

Today, the Red Line has no speed restrictions for the first time in 20 years. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/25/metro/red-line-no-speed-restrictions-first-time-15-years/ Here's the slow zone map from a year ago today, and then today

Along those lines, I'll point out that the 47 has terrible transfers to the B and C. At the C, it's a long-ish walk, but at least relatively nice. And it would be hard to fix that without building an expensive underground station. At the B, though, the 47 southbound drops people off on the wrong...

Shoot, I think I knew that but forgot. I edited my post. Thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, this seems right. The Elizabeth Line is a good-but-not-perfect comparison. Here's a couple related articles, if anyone is interested. They describe two types of these cross-city regional rail tunnels. There are long ones with lots of new stations (like Elizabeth or RER Line A), which are...

Holy crap. So our guy in congress is showing up to committee meetings, drastically exaggerating the costs of NSRL and underselling the benefits? Then gets frustrated we can't win federal money for some reason? wtf?

And really, we'll know a lot more sooner than that. The RFPs will give a lot of info to make sure they're aiming for reasonable specs. By next year we'll know if they're picking a reputable manufacturer, and see designs for other infrastructure. There are sanity checks along the way. Keolis's...

I totally agree, a lot of this kind of planning isn't intuitive or obvious to people. None of this was obvious to me until I started diving into it in the past several years. And we should absolutely have these conversations with empathy. For this article, though, I don't extend a lot of this...

This is probably outside your scope, but on these line diagrams I wish there was some indication which regional rail lines a stop connects with, rather than just using the purple rectangle for all of them. I can see it would be tough to squeeze all the names in at South Station or even Quincy...

So how did the city council vote end up affecting this? They voted for an 18 month freeze on this project. This plan looks like they're getting everything ready so they can start building the minute the freeze is over. Is that right? Did anything else change?

Jumping back to this one, I really like the idea. Do we have any recent, comparable infills to guess how much a new station here would cost?

You can get a cool view of the tower from the skylight in the bus terminal. Again, does anyone know the status of the bus terminal expansion? It was supposed to be partially open by now. I recently went through Port Authority in NY and it was even more run down than I remembered. Major cities...

Actually, good point, because I think was reading that wrong. My bad. That 36% in "Downtown Portland" is just one neighborhood on the peninsula, basically the Old Port and waterfront. Here's a better link comparing all the neighborhoods on the peninsula. I haven't figured out a total percent...

I guess I'll bring this up again: The Silver Line extension is a good start, but nowhere near sufficient for moving game-day-sized crowds. The stadium will have 25,000 people leaving at the same time. Really generously, the Silver Line can move 2,000 riders per hour at current normal peak...

For all of Portland, it's about 16% of households that are car-free. That's high for US cities. https://urbanstats.org/article.html?longname=Portland%2C+Maine%2C+USA&s=oWCb4QdiQax1 For Downtown Portland, which is basically just the peninsula, it's 36% car-free...

Is that good? Dressing up like the Lorax seems.... dumb and childish and missing the point of a straightforward kids book. I doubt that actually persuades anyone. Your number is way off. I confess, I don't know exactly what point you're trying to make, but if racial/ethnic statistics are...