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This may be the first time I have seen planning or development renderings that admit we have winter here in New England!

Which exists because bus drivers working in Greater Boston have to earn a living wage to be able to actually live in Greater Boston. Versus college kids are living in the dorm (pricey, but paid for either by parents or massive student loan debt).

Some of the ferries have been leased as new routes were tested. As the routes become permanent, I believe the MBTA is buying the ferries used on those routes.

I would be willing to bet that a big driver for the cost is trying to keep the line and street mostly open during the construction. It is a tight, busy transit and traffic corridor, not a greenfield site. If we were willing to take the transportation hit of closing the corridor for six months...

OK, but you actually made my point, and the one noted above that I was commenting on: the title of this thread does not well represent the building pictured at 575 Albany Street. That building is NOT The Smith at 660 Harrison Ave. (And in fact The Smith does not use the Harrison Ave address...

It looks like a couple different (related?) projects between Harrison and Albany along E. Dedham Street have gotten conflated.

I believe there is supposed to be ground floor grocery retail space in the new building planned. Hopefully something similar comes back in the new building. There really wasn't any reason to try to salvage the current building -- it's a bit of a mess.

I think the last shutdown completed the trackside installation work. But I suspect (since the T is claiming work is not done) there is still back-office, Command Center, and testing work in process.

I acknowledge all your points about Phase 3 being a mess -- horrible concept as BRT. But I still insist that the bigger point is that the Big BRT Hype was actually a BRT Lie, because the service being built never qualified as BRT. The service serving the former elevated Orange Line (SL4/5) has...

I think BRT Lie is a better characterization, because the SL4/SL5 service has never passed muster as BRT. Real BRT has a dedicated right-of way that cannot be infringed on by traffic. The best BRT systems have level, all-door boarding; protected, fare control stations; signal priority at all...

There actually are directional arrows on the SL loops (at the end of each loop at the break point), but they are way too subtle for the average user of the map to identify their purpose. Very poor graphical design. There needs to be much clearer designation of the one-way nature of the loop...

Orange Line signal upgrades are still in progress. Completion is scheduled for end of 2026. We are almost there, but not quite. https://www.mbta.com/projects/orange-line-program#signals

Remaining manufacturing is moving to Andover. But the announcement said R&D functions stay in South Boston. R&D for Gillette products still means robotic manufacturing development, metallurgy and specialty coating labs, as well as more general chem labs.

Gillette's lab space needs are pretty bespoke -- it is not generic bio lab space. They are not a biotech, they are very high volume precision consumer products player. They are going to get much more of what they need building their own building to spec than trying to do a build out on a lease.

I think the "freebies" are already baked into the development approval P&G is buying back with the site (waterfront park, for example).

I hope there is a real commitment to maintaining the warning paint striping along these barriers. The cast-in-place barriers are very hard for both cyclists and drivers to see in low visibility situations. Great way to really screw up a tire and rim (cycle or car). We are not exactly known...

If you look at the proposed service patterns, some trains change from N-S to E-W at Springfield. It is not pure N-S, E-W service. Inland route New Haven to Boston, for example. Not saying you get to six trains, but there are complications. Plus freight.

Just call it Wonderland High School -- much cheaper than changing ever T map and sign. (Hint, you don't change the name of the terminus station of a line -- whose name appears on every wayfinding sign on the line, and map throughout the system -- without a damn good reason. Something like...

Convergence of N-S and E-W service, as well as inland route NH to BOS -- sufficient platforms for layovers and timed transfers?

Price gouging. Overpriced tickets for entry and overpriced food and drinks.