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Wow! OG Red Line elevation plan overview - total deep archive cut! I appreciate the find!

I keep thinking of some mustachioed be-monocled dare-devil strapping a monstrous proto-camera to an untested balloon, rope-anchored somewhere close to where Charles St an Beacon meet, all launching with a huzzah and the throwing of topped hats, a nod to this feat of aeronautical fancy!

I’m pretty sure The Great Fire of 1872 is why you’re having difficulty negotiating the streets compared to today. 80 percent of that area burned and nearly all of the remainder was ripped down and built up later. Could someone confirm that we are looking North East-ish at Old South Meeting House...

Context is everything. The new (hotness) design will connect to the pretty (old hotness) granite abutments, but they're a little shaky and need some beef. I'd be more worried if the word repair shows up when we're talking about spans, tubs, welds, or pilings. Slowly, surely this will get...

Add +2” for subsidence

Be on the lookout for corporate lobbyists from BEMU companies carrying heavy briefcases. #unfoundedaccusations

it looks like it’s out. BFD is winding down. Damn! I’m expecting Craig T. Nelson to come running out screaming something about headstones and/or bodies. Or alternately…

Here’s my cheap rant… The problem is people. The people are cheap. We get cheap solutions from the cheap politicians we vote for, who then appoint cheap bureaucrats. And we are all cheapened by them. Cheap bureaucrats don’t read white papers extolling the benefits of electrification. BEMUs...

Had to google that. Sick architectural burn, bro! Spot on!

I lived near there in the early 90s and wanted this to happen then... as much as I loved Videosmith and the staff selection wall. This project spaaaahkles. It should be a SimCity default model.

I keep thinking there's someone at the Harvard University Real Estate Office who is acting like Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" pointing at the Doubletree and Houghton Chemical'

Wrapping up... if we could step in and build this today, A Ped/Bike bridge attached/adjacent to a GLX-ready BRT bridge on the North Side of the existing Commuter Rail bridge would be the way to go, OR A normal commuter rail bridge south of the existing bridge then adapting the existing bridge...

I would love Ped/BRT to happen on the North side. Maybe even Ped/BRT/Dam! For anyone not fully immersed, here's an annotated image of the area. The yellow is existing bike friendly trails. Also, since nobody offered to bring any stats or info to this potluck, I went down the rabbit hole to get...

I'm dusting off an old thread because the problem still exists. Obviously nothing has changed. That's what I'm saying. I don't have a lobbyist in my pocket so, no, I cannot give you a solution to fit the requisite acceptable level of personal action. As for the cheap solution I keep circling...

I was out riding last weekend and came to the Costco side of the dam. The only living thing moving was the gang of 30 geese who’ve taken up residence behind the rusted fence. Damn shame I couldn’t cross there. With all the engineers in this town nobody can figure out how to build a couple yard...

I would say that stretch of road needs a road diet, too. The size, speed and overall design do not need to be there. It was built pre-93 and is an outsized relic from a bygone age of arrogance.

Is that the NB exit from Gov't Center where rails merge at the Lechmere return loop?

Harvard owns everything there. They want to make money as soon as possible. Empty field doesn't do that. Harvard thinks waiting is expensive, so it sweetens the pot saying "Hey, City of Boston and MassDOT... Shake a leg on approval and we'll take you to dinner." Right now the City and MassDOT...

I though of something this morning... You know the hideous parcel next to MassDOT HQ off Kneeland Street? The one that no sane developer would touch because it is bounded by highway ramps and not suitable for residential or office use? The one that Charlie Baker has begged someone to buy? The...

My go-to rhyme: The abutters are nutters. Neighborhood process drags things. In this instance, the abutting MBTA, CSX, and MassDOT are slow moving beasts. Finances can also be skittish based on the bipolar fragility of capitalism's whims. Sadly, the need for speed is a non starter here...