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Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion And an article to go along with the slides above. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/09/05/new_liberty_mutual_office_will_alter_three_neighborhoods/?p1=Well_Business_links

Yes, I was stating my personal preference. Obviously, daylight flights aren't appropriate for everyone's situations, which is why 99.9% of transatlantic traffic is overnight and the daylight flights usually have way lower yields than evening flights. I was speaking less of the business traveller...

Also, it's interesting that the first post of this thread mentions a flight to Brussels. There have been rumours that Brussels Airlines is going to re-start transatlantic flights at some point, initially to JFK but expanding (YUL was a possibility, but now that Air Canada is already in that...

Air France tried a daylight flight from Kennedy a couple of years ago and I think it lasted a summer. The reason London works from Boston, New York, Chicago and Toronto (the only cities with daylight flights to LHR) is that each city has a solid O&D market and they're within a certain flight...

ZING! I noticed that my local Starbucks has a bar in front of the prep area. I always thought it was a unique set up and due to the fact that it's a larger Starbucks than your typical location (like the one three blocks away - there are 120 Starbucks locations in the city of Toronto alone!)...

That was DL's plan way back in the day. They had planned, when announcing the construction of the new Terminal A, a gradual ramp up of service. Of course, that was before jetBlue and long before Southwest came along and trashed the yields of the big boys at Logan. So, this is certainly...

Re: New West End building Needless to say, I was a bit gobsmacked to see the 'h' word in there. Given that all of Charles River Park is a couple hundred feet (minus the townhouses, and clearly they aren't bothered), the Nashua St Residences are slated for (eventual) building at a bit over 400...

Re: Filene's To be fair, the city does have a point that Filene's is in a much more visible, high-trafficked area whereas the Chinatown "beach" is exactly that: In Chinatown. Let's face it, Chinatown ain't winning any awards for beauty (though, in my opinion, that's part of its charm). That...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) It appears to be the window-washing crane. Given that the crane needs to be secured into the building, it has to be long in order to get over the raised sides. In fact, if you look about two floors from the top of the building, directly down from the...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Likewise. I was nervous when I called and got the first available appointment which was in Lynn. Growing up in Cohasset, the worst I had to contend with was the Hingham traffic circle on 3A. So the idea of driving in a busier place like Lynn was a bit daunting. But...

Any word on what's going on with Bixi? It seems it was announced a year ago with fanfare and there's been nothing since. Given that other cities announced their plans for bike sharing implementation after Boston and have already introduced it - or have a firm, planned start date - is this...

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion Quite right. I just too a cursory glance at her website, saw a photo of a guy on the front page. That + the name = egg on my face. She's still a jackass.

Re: Liberty Mutual plans major Boston expansion It's times like this that I'm happy to be living in Toronto. Are you freaking kidding me? Is it nearly impossible for a shadow that long to be case based on the estimated height. Furthermore, does anyone live in this guy's district? If I did, I'd...

Re: Nashua Street Residences (North Station) All is not lost. It took Toronto, which is in the midst of a building boom several times larger than Boston's seen in the past couple of decades, 11 years to get development around the Air Canada Centre up and running. The arena opened in 1999 and...

We had service on TACA to San Salvador until around 2006. The route was so marginal that when TACA decided it no longer wanted to overnight its aircraft but rather have it arrive at around 4am, Customs and Immigration said that they wouldn't staff the hall for one flight and TACA pulled the...

Admittedly, that did seem a bit high. So I went back and redid the numbers. I was over, but not by a terrible amount. Here's the table. Most of these numbers seem to be based on the 2000 census, so this number may have increased a bit since then, but you get 1.4 million in 149.1 sq mi. Here's...

Likewise, here in Toronto the original city of Toronto today would have a population of around 700,000. However, in 1997 it was merged with its immediate, surrounding suburbs (with whom the city already shared certain municipal services - transit, waste and recycling, emergency services, amongst...

I wonder if the recession is in fact the reason for these gains. I recall reading something stating that it was one of the reasons for a reduced number of internal migration out of Massachusetts towards other states. Namely since the biggest destinations for people leaving Massachusetts were the...

Re: Nashua Street Residences (North Station) Given that one of the teams calls itself the Yard Dawgz, I can only hope so.

It seems we have another one of the 'rip-er-down' sort. http://boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/23/loony_over_longfellow/