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From the Imagine Boston 2030 plan: "The current building boom is really just beginning. Much of this is predicated on the belief that Boston will keep growing. The plan projects a population of more than 800,000 people by 2050 — up from 656,000 in 2014 — and more than 900,000 jobs. To keep pace...

RailwayAge, May 16, 2017 MTA unveils bold plan to modernize New York City subway http://m.railwayage.com/index.php/passenger/rapid-transit/mta-unveils-6-point-plan-to-modernize-new-york-city-subway.html An impressive read. I'm not as knowledgeable as other posters about these two transit...

Re: North-South Rail Link The program's focus was on engineering challenges. Examples included an incredible maneuver dubbed, "the Eye of the Needle", where a massive boring machine passed 33 inches above an existing subway tube and 14 inches below another structure (reading those words I say...

Re: North-South Rail Link WGBH, NOVA, 9pm, "Super Tunnel". That's tonight, Wednesday, May 3 ! "Follow an army of engineers and designers as they tackle the complex challenge of building Crossrail, a massive new subterranean railway deep beneath the streets of London".

Now I know where beton brut, the phrase, comes from :)

Habitat turns 50, concrete comeback? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/style/brutalism-growing-up-in-a-concrete-masterpiece.html?

Excerpt from an opinion article by a member of the Denver City Council in the Denver Post when the area's FasTracks program was ramping up: "But there’s a simple way to avoid those problems: EMUs. Electric Multiple Units are the cleanest, quietest commuter-rail vehicles in existence. They’re...

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Love to see buildings lit in color at night. Perhaps the BPDA could persuade the property owners of select prominent buildings to splash color on their tops. Design a "Skyline Necklace", so to speak, or select a single street popular with tourists and make it a "Color Walk" at night. Don't want...

Nice update, cybah! After all the new walls are tagged, this project will look ugly. Teardrops.

Anybody aware of the fact that crane counts are being surveyed? The Architect's Newspaper Seattle overtakes New York City and Los Angeles in list ranking construction cranes By ANTONIO PACHECO • October 25, 2016 A recently-released report by construction and building consulting agency Rider...

The "median" is a short completed section of a center cycle track for the Connect Historic Boston Bike Trail.

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Thanks, guys, spent a Saturday and Sunday doing a lot of walking, but, it's a labor of love. We have a beautiful city here and I think the architecture is better than some think it is. It's certainly pleasing to look at, I think, and, yes, I've included pictures of the sharp, smart-looking...

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Wanted to stick these together somewhere, taken in the last week:

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Re: Amtrak / Regional Rail Discussion Thread I understand the paragraph to state that the new train sets, with of a configuration of nine passenger cars, results in a 33% increase of passengers over the current train sets. Three more cars, equaling twelve, can be added for additional passengers...