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Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Okay, but now we're right back at the original problem of either overbuilding on the promise that yes, indeed, Gillette being in the middle of nowhere (soccer train notwithstanding) is the one and only reason why soccer is being held back in Boston - and if it...

Re: Somerville Soccer Stadium Tear down the Pavilion and put it there. The Pavilion is woefully undersized as far as outdoor venues go in any case. Having said that, building any stadium at all right now is a very bad idea - soccer has only just started to gain the legitimacy it needed to...

Oh, it is indeed the only physical choke point. (If you assume that Neponset is completely untouchable, that's another choke point - but, again, Olympics, going hog wild.) I'm referring to the fact that nobody thought to buy up or reserve the land needed for the third (or the fourth) track when...

TF Green doesn't have a lot of demand right now, but unlike Logan, it has tremendous growth and expansion potential. Also, TF Green is best equipped to handle the shorter haul flights, just like Manchester Regional. Every slot used on flights from BOS to places like RDU, SDF, DTW, and such like...

This is a minor gripe, but really, there's no reason to have the express bus stop that is nominally for South Station be located on Lincoln at Beach Street. It should really be moved to the South Station Bus Terminal - either inside of the terminal itself, curbside on Atlantic Avenue (would...

Right-of-way acquisition is really, really expensive - and there's a lot of places where we're going to be hamstrung by a lack of available right-of-way for a contiguous third or fourth track. In the universe where we ended up stuck holding the bag on the Olympics, sure, silence all dissent and...

Well, I guess you could say that trying to build a casino in Massachusetts is turning out to be a losing bet. (No refund for any of those guys, we should take the money spent on the licenses and just pocket it.)

Are outbound commuter rail boardings by station seriously not included in this thing for the second time in a row? I found outbound ridership per line, but per station doesn't appear to be in here. Again. Maybe I'm just the only person in the whole world who thinks that might be useful...

Actually, it was Congress. Buildings are limited to the width of the street plus 20 feet, up to 110 feet on residential streets or 130 feet on commercial streets.

Don't listen to the people calling for "slender" because that is absolutely the wrong attitude to take here. Frankly, building anything on top of the historic building is probably DOA for a variety of reasons but - were we ever to get to the point where we were able to build atop the station...

I don't see the appeal of trying to develop Hanscom as a supplementary airport to Logan. Logan already has two supplementary airports, both of which are tragically underutilized and one of which is the closest intercity rail/air link in the country today. Right now Amtrak trains on today's...

Your links are broken, because your phone attached an extra http:// so that all links now direct to "http:// http://www..." I took the extra http:// out of the quoted post content and the links in the quote will therefore work, but you will need to go back in and edit your post accordingly...

Well, actually, Penn Station's destruction was only extremely loosely related to the rise of the automobile in that it was auto culture that drove ridership traffic in Penn Station down enough for it to start bleeding money. Bog-standard "we can't afford this building" played far more of a...

Re: Silver Line to Chelsea (Study Meeting) It is for the surface-stopping SL4 bus at least. The SL1 and SL2 buses are all inside South Station Under fare control and those drivers will actually sometimes yell at pax to USE ALL OF THE AVAILABLE DOORS.

Readville, sure, but South Station expansion is absolutely unnecessary in the context of the Link. We're only "running out of capacity" at South Station because we're routinely pulling trains out of service and just leaving them there because they've got nowhere else to go. We're going to build...

The ability to move trains back and forth goes a long way towards normalizing the relative capacity imbalances in the system today where Maintenance World HQ and all the heavyweight lines are on the "wrong" side of the divide relative to each other. That's definitely worth something because we...

Then it never gets built, period. Even in the universe where our commuter rail runs like the RER we cannot put enough people onto those trains through that tunnel to justify $5 billion and that's why cutting the Link's capacity in half to run Red Line trains through it is gaining traction. A...

The #1 reason to build the Rail Link doesn't have anything to do with passenger throughput, really. Passenger throughput is the sexy reason to build the thing, and a great selling point. The tremendously unsexy reason that far less people care about but which is no less important is the ability...

Great! "Opt-in" advertising. I love it - I can shut my phone off, or just not download the app, and happily go about my daily commute free of "targeted," "personalized," "location-aware" advertising. Marketing agencies probably love it a whole lot less because a lot of people think like me (at...

Based on South Station, I think we're pretty damn close to peak advertising, so I'm comfortable making assumptions about the ceiling on advertising revenue being somewhere barely north of double what we're pulling in right now. If "maximized ad revenue" means multiplying ad revenues by a factor...