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Personally, I don't like the idea of using Holyoke for 2 reasons: 1) that trio of >90° turns would absolutely suck and kill throughput, especially for anything bigger than a car - I sincerely doubt the Harvard shuttle buses can make either turn. Those 90° left turns crossing major pedestrian...

So, my apologies to the writers at the Crimson... but I think they are misconstruing the policy order a bit. Its two pieces. They're looking at a pilot program for Dunster, Palmer and Winthrop streets, all of which are great candidates for pedestrianization, and not main thoroughfares, to be...

I do appreciate that they seem to be working on bringing back the food court - hopefully it'll curtail the explosion of kiosks. That said, its now ... checks notes... 2 years since their squarespace subscription expired, so I remain skeptical of Ashkenazy's commitment to South Station.

Rather overdue, but also kinda comes off as falling on the sword here - the washington bridge issue is such a big deal locally, and will remain so over the next couple of years until the replacement is finished. He was never going to escape it. The statehouse isn't blameless either - RIDOT...

Should we be equipping for the once-in-a decade record breaking snowfall event, or for the 95th percentile? Here we get 2 ft of snow rarely, while that happens multiple times a year in Canada. Our average annual total over the last 25 years is half of what montreal gets. Edit: the piece of...

Fascinating that they pivoted to an adaptive reuse for this site - in that light I'm not going to complain overly much about either the aesthetics (an upgrade on the existing facade) or the site plan, but itis a shame that its getting half the units originally proposed for the site. I guess the...

I mean... from a on-the-ground perspective, the process would look the same? Snow from intersections and streets gets loaded into dump trucks, and driven off and dumped somewhere else. The only difference is how it melts - either in a "snow farm" where it slowly melts until June (famously in...

The biggest local generating loss was definitely the 2024 closure of Mystic 8&9 - but if we're looking at NY State as a point of reference... we don't have a NYPA / Santee Cooper analogue agency for the state to be able to directly make such power plant decisions. Especially over the timeframe...

Not to mention Amtrak Lake Shore Limiteds and Inland Regionals - my understanding is that even a Dual Mode Airo running on the Inland is likely to pull into South Station in Diesel mode, as the Worcester Line tracks aren't wired up at Back Bay, only the final ½ mile in the S. Station terminal...

I know where this is due to a transit fact, but will leave it alone for the moment.

While the amenities like the museums, MGM, MassMutual, NBA HoF are good anchors, they're attractions that aren't exactly constant - they're "make a special trip" for places, and aren't exactly huge draws to attract someone to live there. Springfield needs better amenities targeted at residents -...

Keeping in mind the underpass is going away, it looks like the draft plan (as of April 2025) was to have a separated transitway on the western side of the alignment once off the bridge, with the bus lanes transitioning to the bridge north of Arlington Ave - based on how the bus lanes are laid...

Just a question, and in no way meant to be accusatory - but Ive noticed that some longstanding posters have suddenly become "guest" / "deleted members"? Was that a intended action or...? Specifically, the ones I've noticed are Portlander, Markhb, Thomas.

Y'all haven't experienced an train station like Paddington then - faregates at platform access is pretty common in European and Asian terminals, where they also only announce track assignments immediately prior to boarding. If i were to point fingers, I'd say that not enough gates are...

Erhm, I think most of the coffee shop / cafés in the city don't have a kitchen? I know of many that just sell brought in pastries, and of the rest I suspect the vast majority don't cook anything more complicated than a breakfast sandwich, which you can pull off pretty easily with just a...

Having seen the same post, it was locked due to reddit being reddit and taking that claim at face value. I believe its since been fact checked that that model of gate is likely rated to -30°C.

Based on the latest planset from the CRA, I think 3 retail, 1 café, 1 fitness use - all of the units are small, 500-600ft², other than the corner cafe which is 854ft² which is probably too small for a proper restaurant.

I mean, Stow changed their name to Dunkin for a day after a viral TikTok... so sure?

I will note its a bigger cultural space than that particular floorplan depicts, since it also occupies the entire second floor. Personally, a seaport library branch would be on my list of "should be considered" for the site.

A few updates: AG Campbell's sues 9/12 non-compliant towns. Carver and Rehoboth get more time since they were under the adjacent small town criteria that only just passed its deadline, Freetown gets a temporary pass since has a pending meeting which could pass it...