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And Mosquito Breeding Center (in a few months).

It just seems odd to me that you can have a building that is an imminent threat for structural failure, but it stand up to the demolition activity without just collapsing?

As a society, we have largely lost the narrative on the historical parkway system. Car commuters rule. But this is still worthwhile to remind people.

But the concept of reducing capacity to nudge drivers to other routes or other modes assumes that those other routes or modes are actually viable. Someone looking into their crystal ball about the future demand potential for Mem Drive is going to get a pretty murky picture of alternate routes...

You mean just like the current 1987 Back Bay Station with the same arch? 🙃

I suspected that was the case. Just information that your slot "might be on the chopping block" is not actionable, other than to create concern.

So I received a truly strange email about a future schedule change or cancellation on Acela in March. Except the email had no real information. It read like a horoscope: There is a train trip in your future. This train trip will be disrupted. The disruption may be severe, or perhaps not...

Likely concrete contaminated with chloride from ocean sand and other high-salt aggregate. Cement standards require low chloride (low salt) sand, because chloride corrodes steel rebar. Contractors are known to cut corners using cheap ocean-derived sand, aggregate, rather than more expensive...

Time Out Group closed their food hall in Chicago at the same time, same rationale. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/time-out-market-boston-chicago-closed-b2901606.html

Makes sense. Particularly given the failure rate of the OG trainsets.

OK, I can assume you have the inside scoop. But I had a train flip from OG to NG on Jan 7 with no change in schedule (notice only a couple of days before) -- so that does not seem to indicate a dedicated OG slot.

Oh this is going to help: Eurostar known for its sudden, significant fare hikes and cycles of financial troubles, with recent issues including major pandemic losses requiring a £290M bailout (2021), intense scrutiny over high prices and poor service amidst record profits (late 2024/2025), and...

The Acela trains will eventually be about 10 minutes faster on the Boston/NYC run. But that cannot happen until all the new trainsets are received and in service. Then the slotting will be adjusted to accommodate the small increase in speed. The slotting adjustments cannot be made until all...

I don't think you can find "shell only" pricing subtotalled in US construction. The fit and finish practices are too intertwined with the rest of the construction. The shell only construction is just too different than the US approach. In US construction, you are not going to find an HVAC...

Of course if you do the density with 5-6 story buildings with courtyards, and dense streets you get 50,000/sq. mile, like Paris.

Certainly possible. but probably not financially practical. Creating a viaduct structure along the Encore frontage is going to be a much more expensive construction project than a surface station. (Certainly outside the budget Encore has offered.) Encore probably does not want the extra...

My experience with residential construction in East Asia suggests it is hard to make price comparisons. Common practice in many locations is to deliver new apartments as basically concrete shells, without interior finishes (often not even fixtures). So the apartment "price" is not comparable...

Differences I noted: Shorter cars, more cars per train set. One entry door per car (not 2). More luggage racks at entry. Overhead racks versus closed airline style bins. Racks seemed smaller than the older bins (encouragement to use the luggage racks and not clog the aisles with big luggage)...

They cannot build the CR stop by the casino, because the track grade is too steep coming off of the Mystic River Bridge. The platform grade would violate ADA requirements. The CR stop is going to need to be up by Sweetser Circle, for which Wynn is not going to want to pay.

I sat at a table seat on the new Acela on Wednesday. It felt like the access and spacing (seat to table leg) was tighter than the old cars. Table design, though, is better (split folding sections, separate for each seat).