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Adding more lanes does not fix traffic. It adds more capacity for cars, which lets more people drive, which almost immediately brings back the same level of congestion. This has been known since the 1930's. This is so widely observed and so totally inevitable that researchers call this The...

All of this, and I'd add Regional Rail frequencies on the Fitchburg.

Expanding on this a bit, just from reading the news stories and press releases, I can't even really tell why they're replacing the bridges. Everyone says the bridges are old, but I can't find why that's a problem. I'd think this might shave minutes off a typical CR trip, but maybe not, and no...

I've been wanting to reading more about this exact problem. Do you (or anyone else) have suggestions where to start?

Oh yeah, totally subjective, so I don't want to dwell on my negativity if other people are enjoying it. From some of the pictures and comments posted here, I was starting to guess I was the odd one out on my opinion about highway views. That's fine. Just surprising.

For sure. I've lived near some unpleasant els, and I'm still kind of skeptical it's a good idea to build more. But there are good els, and they've gotten so much better compared to the old Orange line. They have benefits over subways. If they seem reasonable, it could be worth trying to convince...

I really like how this whole project is turning out, but I am completely baffled by people getting excited for the views of the highway. The Pike is.... ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that, but....just baffled. It reminds me of growing up in Illinois, stopping to get fast...

Revere Beach Parkway is plenty wide and could work as part of a ring (though that's not typically the chosen path). How wide a street do you think you'd need? Just as a jumping off point, the new Lechmere is on a relatively nice, quiet viaduct. Cambridge Crossing was willing to put up buildings...

Agreed. What that really means is this block badly needs a real re-design. It's incredibly wide, so there's space for a bike lane. The city just needs to protect it, maybe by expanding the sidewalk and putting the bikes raised up there. The space for cars was so wide that one whole lane got...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mass%20transit Buses are a part of "mass transit." If you want to argue the Silver Line isn't "rapid transit," fine, I probably agree, whatever. You brought this up because you were surprised this place will have no parking. I think that's totally...

OpenStreetMap maybe shows this better https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/42.366458/-71.063151 You can see the Green yard under North Station, which is entirely south of the all the underground highway ramps. The Green portal does come up between the two highway ramps, but that's because it...

That looks great. I totally agree we can and should have more public transit for recreation. A few scattered thoughts: I've been in the Blue Hills quite a few times where car traffic even in the park is bad, especially around Houghton's Pond. There are a lot of cars; drivers slow down looking...

Again, what part of your example does anything to fix the housing shortage? The shortage is near ubiquitous. Pittsfield also has a housing shortage. It has the same root problem: little or no new development being built. It has the same consequences: house prices in the Pittsfield have gone up...

For someone (me) who knows nothing about this, how can you tell? In that last picture I can see a vertical seam in the bricks below the right windows. I would have assumed that's where two panels come together.

Oh, that bill passed the House and Senate. Healey signed it into law last week, with surprisingly little fanfare. https://www.boston.com/food/food-news/2024/09/13/boston-liquor-licenses-healey-signature/ So, 225 new licenses over the next three years. If I'm reading this correctly, 95 of those...

Regardless the other merits of this proposal, I'm at a loss how this would fix anything to do with the housing crisis. There is a housing shortage. That's true in the city, in the suburbs, across the state, and basically nation-wide at this point. There is already a huge demand for more people...

There's new Newton Corner working group that met the first time this year, and someone at least mentioned looking into a Newton Corner station (page 8). And if you're interested, TransitMatters mentioned it as a good possibility in their report on upgrading the Worcester line. But pretty...

If this looks like make-believe then, again, what do you think Keolis is doing here? I do actually trust Keolis knows what trains are on the market, or likely available in the next four years. Keolis came to the MBTA with this plan, bid on it, and signed a ~$50M contract to procure BEMUs. If...

I'm also confused where Keolis will get the trains from. However, Keolis is saying they can do it. Keolis came up with this plan, bid on it, set dates and prices, and signed a contract saying they'll get BEMUs by 2028. It really sounds like they have a plan. I'm willing to hear people's theories...

There's a low quality scan on Scribd. It doesn't look like it contains the answer I was looking for, but still interesting to skim through. BTW, I couldn't find a copy straight away, so I contacted a the Boston Public Library. I always want to give props to wonderful librarians who are eager to...