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Re: South Station Tower Dunno what it is but it's not there any longer. At least not in that position. Well...maybe. I don't know. I walked through those front doors everyday for almost four years in high school but I never claimed to be the most observant person to walk the earth. But I'd...

I agree with found5dollar. Fact is, no city is like this anymore. Yes, it's really interesting to see how things were a century ago, but this isn't something that's unique to Boston either. Almost all cities in the industrialized world have changed. Whether or not you think it's a positive or...

Re: South Station Tower When they rip down the Post Office for the South Station expansion, can they take the awful office building down with it? I'd love to see that fa?ade extended to the way it used to be. Such a majestic looking building that no looks rather incomplete. Or even keep the...

Yeah, the diplomatic slaps in the fact that were the booting the Canadians out of Camp Mirage and refusing landing permission to the Canadian Defence Minister who was en route back from Afghanistan were not taken to too lightly here. But Nav Canada would lobby to prevent over-fly rights being...

I'm pretty sure the union would have something to say about that. Without giving them too much credit, I'm sure the powers that be at 10 Park Plaza have thought of ways to try and offer service without having to pay the union costs associated with their labor. According to this (...

Yes, I admit there are examples where surcharges due to labor restrictions are necessary, and I suppose given the iron grip that the T's unions have, here would have to do as well. I just can't see how it could cost that much more to run a few buses for a few hours that a doubling of the fare...

I've heard the rumours about Turkish for a number of years now. I know it's been on Massport's 'want' list for a while. However, I think in the end the market will only support one of the Middle Eastern airlines, so whoever decides to start service first will be it. My money is on Emirates...

Gee. If only there were other cities in the world that offered 24-hour transit, 7 days a week for which you didn't have to pay a surcharge. I get that the T is woefully in debt and that right now isn't the best time to start a costly new endeavour, but at some point, if Boston wants to be a...

I read it. I agree that Boston could use a new airport. Logan has narrowly been on the brink of overcapacity for some time now and the outdated form of small, individual terminals is starting to show cracks in the armor (for instance, the headache Massport is dealing with trying to be...

Really? Because when I lived in Boston, all I ever heard was people complaining about the city and how they wish it were more like [insert city they most recently travelled to here]. Bostonians take pride in their institutions, namely the sports teams. They take pride in not being New York...

Just because there isn't a law doesn't mean Montreal doesn't get away with shade disputes. Even Toronto (a much more development friendly), which has no shade law, has had a hard time getting a building over the 1,000-foot threshold due to concerns about shading. The Montreal NIMBYs can be just...

Yes, but Montreal is notorious here in Canada for being very difficult to build in. Check out some of the other websites, like SkyscraperCity, and you'll see that they often complain about the same things we do in Boston (tall projects chopped down in size, value engineering, NIMBYism, etc)...

Re: Suffolk Dorms / Modern Theatre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgGCIZi1UjY

To be fair, there aren't many local, European systems that cross national boundaries either. I.e. You can't take the RER from Paris to Brussels. In Germany, which has a federal system similar to the US's, where trains cross state boundaries (however, the Munich S-Bahn does not leave Bavaria), it...

Exactly. Meaning that in all likelihood, the Airtran/Southwest merger will be zero-sum for Boston - some taken away from the excess in BWI and given to beefing up the existing Airtran schedules to Florida. Orlando already served year-round and Ft. Myers and Sarasota are served seasonally (my...

Mostly. LCC = Low-Cost Carrier. Sorry all. Self-avowed aviation geek here. Going forward I'll try and write in more layman terms.

Actually, I see this as a slight net negative for BOS. First off, Airtran already fly at least seasonally to most of the major Florida markets (only FLL and/or PBI stand out as potentials). Furthermore, the two companies will have a combined weekday schedule of up to 15 flights each way on...

True, but do we really need to start going around officially naming every part of the city with the 'disrict' tag?

Re: Residences at Kensington That rendering is yet another example of something I've questioned for a while about Boston hi-rise condo/apartment buildings. Why not balconies? The Millennium condo tower is pretty massive so I'm assuming there's more than two or three condos (at least on the...

The Street View image of the bridge shows a school bus driving under it with little in the way of clearance. Also in that image is the clearance height, which is 10ft, 9in. Jass, not that Canadians are of the "utmost importance" but, like any article, it is written for a specific market, a...