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Okay, but you could have gone to anything as proof of Baker's weakness as far as infrastructure is concerned - hell, megalithic projects like the Rail Link or a new freeway are hard for people to identify with, but "my road/bridge/sidewalk looks like it came from a war zone" is easy for anyone...

If you want to take this back to the other thread, that's fine. If you want to agree to disagree, that's fine too. I mostly posted here because this thread was active and that one wasn't.

I don't actually know that. Even if you're correct in the assertion that nobody outside of AB is considering tying the Link into an Olympics bid, the timing of the chatter by Baker, Weld and friends is certainly a little eyebrow raising, isn't it? I don't think I'm way off base in suggesting...

This sort of thing, by the way, is exactly why trying to use the Olympics as a cudgel to get all of these wish-list items checked off is fucking stupid, because even with a magic wand to wave that provides infinite willpower and eliminates cost concerns "because 'world-class,' or, something"...

I actually didn't really like the idea of crossing into Williamsburg until I started drawing it out on the map. https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=215125331456437635207.000506e8053ed2badece6&msa=0 I guess you could pull D trains off of their existing alignment and send them from...

The "heavy motive power" requirement disclosed in that article has me a little worried about the prospect of connecting to the bridge from Chambers St, and you'd have to reconnect the other track pair at Canal St, but it would massively simplify the routing there. I'd prefer to see space...

I did this because I became bored and wanted to find a way to tie almost all potential NYC subway expansion either directly or indirectly to the Second Avenue Subway. I think I only managed about half of it, though...

Miscellaneous side-note question: can the Brooklyn Bridge structurally support B Division tracks like the Manhattan or Williamsburg Bridges?

Let me just say, as someone who absolutely opposes the Olympics in any form, I am loving the discussion over locating Olympic Stadium somewhere in the vicinity of South Station. Either we get a whole bunch of new developable land in that area, OR this becomes one of the things (if not the...

To say there are no better options shows the very same lack of imagination you accuse Revere of having - there are plenty of uses for a parcel of this size with the potential access that this one has, both entertainment and otherwise. MA-99 is problematic - but it's absolutely a solvable...

Reality: Placing a toll at the end of every off ramp where traffic has no choice but to go through it constitutes a toll on the CAT. This wouldn't hold water. It doesn't matter, since the long-standing policy of the federal government against tolling interstates is changing. Tolling the CAT is...

Yeah, fine. I accept my share of the blame. I'm sorry. The point about transportation cut backs being the 800-pound gorilla in the room and the inevitable breakdown of any attempt to host events far out (whether that's for solidarity purposes or any other reason) is a valid one, but someone...

Of course, the important fact that isn't being included in the sailing discussion is that Rhode Island sucks, and is bad, and everyone hates it, and nobody should ever go there. Therefore, Rhode Island should play no part in the Olympics - they are the worst state in the union and it's a...

You know what? The New England soccer team aren't going to win for a hundred fucking years. Mark it down.

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium You know what? You're right and this is probably the smartest post this thread's gotten in the last month and a half. I was going to actually reply, but it's just not worth it to reply to posts like these: I can't even find the motivation to take some cheap...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Actually, my evidence boils down to:The limited to nonexistent media coverage the Revolution receive relative to all other major league sports and college athletics The limited to nonexistent community engagement by the Revolution, e.g., events such as the World...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Bob Kraft would ensure that he fully controls whatever stadium gets built with his money downtown, as well. It might very well turn out to be the case that the value add of an urbanized Patriot Place 2.0 experience with the Olympics Stadium as the cornerstone...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium And not to double post for no reason, but something just occurred to me that I'd like to toss out to all you supporters of the Olympics coming to Boston so that the Olympics stadium can be signed over to the Revs afterwards. At least in theory, the venues for the...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Bullshit. I'd be pushing for Providence just the same if I was from Hartford, or Lowell, or literally anywhere else in New England. First of all, they will never be 5th place in Boston. They might be 8th, they might even manage 7th, but they'll never even be...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium The problem I have with this argument is John Henry. The fact is, as I have said and will continue to say, that Boston is a weak soccer market. Kraft's failure to relocate 10+ years ago isn't helping matters any, but the fact is that MLS barely goes noticed in...