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But it fits in with all the multi-generational mish-mash updates to the three-deckers in Dot.

Looks like they are trying to claim the Millennium Tower Mech Screen Fail Award.

Two words: Diesel Locomotives.

Sounds like you are advocating for Columbus Center being revived. (Although a corner of the terra firma needed for the tower was purposefully turned into Frieda Garcia Park, corner of Stanhope and Clarendon, to prevent that tower from ever being proposed again.)

Fare gates are used for scan out too, to validate inbound fare. Not just for scan in.

If only there were a plan to convert that corner of the mall into something we really need, like housing. 🙃

Interesting that the elevator access to tracks 1 & 3 (down near Clarendon Street) does not appear to get fare control gates.

The plans just linked over in the MBTA Construction Projects thread do NOT show the CR fare gates. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/09/construction-is-underway-on-back-bay-station-makeover

On, off, on, off. Gee, wonder why infrastructure costs so much in the USA? :rolleyes:

A lot of the important work is infrastructure related (not very visible). Particularly major HVAC upgrades to keep diesel fumes out of the concourse level (serious health issue). Also electrical and lighting. Minor reassignment of space, such as moving the bike cage out of the concourse to...

Has anyone timed out the demolition rate on the old Volpe? Is it going to be all done by the end of 2026?

Lots of busy ride share areas have designated pick-up/drop zones -- reasonably close to the destination so it makes sense. And you know where it is when you book so you plan accordingly. Waymo's in SF are dynamic. So you set up a pickup and before the taxi arrives, it decides it is only...

Just want to comment I have had the drop (and pick up) outside the crowded zone happen a number of times in San Francisco. Sometimes it is not bad. Sometimes it is super annoying as in dropping you with a hefty walk up hill in the rain; or making it really hard to find your ride when it won't...

Land owners are fined, they simply do not pay the fines. And many landowners do the minimal possible to comply, leaving a barely passable mess with no recourse. One place where the City really stepped up is clearing the sidewalks on the Turnpike bridges between Back Bay, Bay Village, Chinatown...

Not difficult from an engineering perspective. But more expensive than most American cities are willing to implement. Montreal has a fleet of over 2,500 snow removal vehicles, over 3,000 snow removal employees, and they move about 300,000 truckloads of snow to the 29 snow dumping sites...

Snow melting equipment doesn't really address the system limiting step in the cleanup process post major storm. We have been able to use natural melting over extended time at remote locations pretty effectively once the snow is removed. The limiting step is picking up the snow, for either...

A bit ambivalent on the relaxing of permitting standards. But if we could ever treat nuclear plants like products (SMR) rather than custom built albatrosses, it should be easier to replicate and scale capacity safely.

Somerset (2020) and Pilgrim (2019) were both losses of about 680 MW capacity each. If we are looking for more base load capacity, we should really be back investing in nuclear, like NY State, not coal.

Yes, there are multiple examples of transit funding illegally withheld being restored via lawsuit. Over $1 B in funding being withheld due to non-cooperation with ICE was restored in January 2026, for example.

I am certain all of the operating budgets for transit agencies have line items that can be pointed to as repair and maintenance. If the parking garage is replacing former capacity that has been lost due to maintenance neglect, it could, broadly, be construed as repair and maintenance. If it is...