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Re: 45 Province St :( That absolutely guts me. That's one of my favourite reasons for coming back to Boston. Love those sandwiches. Well, there goes my day.

The first two MP36s from UTA have arrived. The first one (010) has already been pressed into service, the second (011) has just arrived and is being checked over and tested. Here's 010 on a test run. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWe_yxT6G7I

South Boston isn't appropriate for a football stadium. Yes, it'd get used by the Patriots' home games (plus applicable playoff games). Sure, there'd be concerts throughout the year. Indeed, if a stadium were built in the urban core, the Revolution probably would not get the soccer-specific...

I haven't taken the Red Line during rush hour in some time, but its pretty bad. Plus, wasn't the idea of Big Red a way to increase capacity on the Red Line? With demand increasing, a train that would increase capacity without necessarily increasing the number of trains running can't be a bad...

Cool designs. Though, to be honest, as much as it's plain and a complete rip-off from Stockholm, the T logo is a classic and don't think it should be 'refreshed'. Though I do like writing out the full name of the T next to the logo. What about articulated train sets? Have those been mentioned...

Re: 45 Province St On the plus side, telling people where you live is really easy. "Oh, yeah, you should come and check out my new, expensive luxury condo. It's the building with the huge billboard on it."

Ouch, that hurts. What a cool building.

What's the building next to the Garden/NS, where the Tip O'Neill building is now? I assume it's some sort of hotel? Looks nice.

Not sure how you'd make it work. Given that Hanover St. is already a one-way street with the ubiquitous delivery vans and/or cabs dropping off and picking up people. Traffic is invariably giving way to opposing traffic to pass these stationary vehicles. If you narrow the street to only have one...

Re: Hayward Place Well, for once I'm going to the one to say that I'd rather the parking lot than that steaming pile of horse dung. For starters, 15 stories is an insult to that area where literally across the street you have two 500 foot buildings. Sorry to the condo owners there, but they...

That's such a crock. If Boston wants to populate Menino's latest "vision" then go figure out a way to get companies to leave Seattle, Atlanta or California. At the end of the day, just redistributing the same money doesn't make the area and better off. If anything, it worsens the deal since some...

I remember seeing part of a documentary series done by an incredibly sanctimonious, annoying environmentalist about this. It's in Spain. I forget exactly how it works but it was pretty cool.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos The MBTA seems to be having a good day. Their website appears to be down and their Twitter feed is listing delays and cancellations on 7 CR lines and ALL bus routes. 20 bus routes are being re-routed due to snow issues. I think any commuters on here...

Re: YMCA/ Northeastern Dorm (formerly GrandMarc at St. Botolph) Pretty... banal. Before long we'll be regarding this in the same light we regard 60s and 70s concrete blocks.

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/downtown/2011/01/boston_bike_czar_calls_city_bi.html?p1=Upbox_links While it's a good start, I don't know if I'd go so far as to say the city is "bike friendly" in its current state. The city has certainly made huge strides in a short period of time but a...

While there might be some truth to that expression, almost every city has a unique aspect to it that makes it successful. If you took away the harbor, New York never would have emerged to be what it is today. Take away the 330 days of sunshine and Los Angeles (and most of California for that...

Re: B.U. East Campus Center (100 Bay State Rd) Sure, exclusive exchange programs are a plenty. Whether or not there is an equivalent to what Suffolk has in Dakar or what the University of Maryland had in Schw?bisch-Gm?nd, Germany (off-shore campuses of an American university), I don't know. If...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/gallery/Boston_then_and_now/?p1=News_links boston.com has a series of Then and Now photos.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Some of those a really clever. Big of of the renaming of Riverside. :)

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I was reading about that last night. What an idiot! When is one eligible for their pension at the MBTA? I wonder if the union will at least fight for him to get a partial pension or something. If not, this guy is f^?ked.