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Yes you can. The slow zones have been a huge pain in the ass. This whole year of shutdowns has also been a huge pain in the ass. I'm glad the shutdowns seem to be working, but still furious the T got so bad that a whole year of shutdowns became necessary. If the T were reasonably funded and...

I don't know anything more about these groups than what I'm reading in the documents, so I can't help there. But I kinda want to stress just how nakedly bad-faith these arguments are. The complaining neighbors are claiming the church will get "great financial gain" by working with a local...

Wow. The details in their argument there make it all even worse. The neighbors say this kind of variance is only allowed if it's for a "religiously significant goal." And then these sad people just assume that helping the poor somehow can't be religiously significant for a Christian church...

Healey has called on the legislature to come back and hash out the economic development bill that got dropped. This is the bill the senate stuck the stadium provisions in, so this is still kind of, sort of, maybe in play. Healey is using the bully pulpit to try to push this bill through, but...

The article includes a literal "windshield view" photo

I'm also curious about this. I kind of doubt this has been specifically studied, though, just because it's about a lot of squishier things like aesthetics and public opinion, and that'd be hard to measure. Along those lines, though, does anyone have some examples of modern, aesthetically...

Oh I see, my bad. I was reading what you said exactly backwards. Nevermind

I don't think you're seriously considering the problems of jetpack parking. They take up less space than a car, sure, but for 100 million people!? We'd be turning our cities into vast parking lots for Single Occupancy Jetpack parking, and that's when I put my foot down!

I totally agree you couldn't skip Philadelphia. But why does it seem impossible to track through Philly? This is a God-Mode thread and a question with a 100 year time frame. It is possible to dig a north-south train tunnel through the whole length of the city. They've done it before.

Any ideas how much it would cost to just change this to an intersection with a traffic light? Part of the problem here is the plans are 40% over budget already. That article says total cost to MDOT is looking to be ~$118 million. It seems like we could save most of a hundred million dollars...

Weird. The Parks and Recreation Commission is now holding up the plans. They voted to approve the design, but the required demolition plans didn't pass. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/29/metro/white-stadium-parks-commission-vote/

Wu and other Boston pols have been focusing on the outlying neighborhoods because this seems like the kind of minor change that might actually pass in the State House. Geographically restricting the licenses hopefully means less pushback from the downtown liquor license holders, because the new...

Jeez, I hope someone's posted that before. I totally agree, that's an incredible resource! One of the really in-depth case transit studies they did was the Green Line Extension, which is absolutely worth reading to see how it took so long and cost so much. I didn't notice they have a whole new...

Thanks for that. That's helpful for understanding your basis for calling Wu's spokesperson a liar. I think most people (myself included) read her statement to mean they were still waiting on details that were relevant and useful for Boston. In that case, the agreement you point to isn't really...

"Renders" are not "details." They are non-binding artistic impressions of what a stadium might look like. Boston is hoping to get the details that are actually relevant for them. Boston's main concern, which they have said over and over, is transportation for 25,000 people getting in and out of...

Thanks for that. But that whole article seems to be trying to hint at this narrative that Wu is blocking things, but never points to her actually doing anything. If this reporter had sources telling them that Wu or Boston was working behind the scenes to kill this part of the bill, they would...

You're spinning some weird conspiracy theory to explain why Wu would oppose the Rev's stadium, but I still haven't seen one shred of evidence she is actually in opposition. She's not publicly blocking it. I haven't seen reports of her working behind the scenes to block it. There was a public...

I don't understand. I'm "technically" correct? And Wu does not oppose the stadium if you consider the definition of "oppose"? And whatever you're trying to say about White Stadium, I don't follow, but it sounds like you're trying to keep implying she might oppose the Rev's stadium for some...

Could you point me to any info on Mayor Wu opposing the stadium?

To be clear, this isn't some government study done with taxpayer money. This tunnel project is being proposed by a private advocacy group, North Atlantic Rail. And they're not throwing money at a study. This is crayoning with an extremely rough, back-of-the-envelope cost estimate. I'm glad...