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Either way, I've long wished they'd close down that short section of Cambria and replace it (along with 14) with something else... a park, a plaza for Berklee musicians, or even extend parcel 14 to the abut the Performance Center. As a cyclist/pedestrian, traveling eastbound on Boylston here...

It's not camera distortion. The height of these poles vary wildly, and I always thought it looked weird (if not sloppy), but I always figured they knew what they were doing and had a reason for it. Anticipating settling into the ground? Waiting until the end to lop off the tops to make them...

Ooh! I'm pretty sure that's in Somerville off the McGrath. I think the green truss in front is the Cross St. bridge over the tracks? The roundish building in back is condos that were made from a church if I recall. I used to bike by it on the detour from when the Washington St. underpass was...

Lighting activated along the "gangway" to Magoun station. I'm actually wondering if this is an art installation rather than part of the station design? It looks way too creative to be government-issue. And lord help you if you've feasted on edibles when you enter this station, cause the...

I saw those Magoun lights lit up this evening, and they add a lot. Something about that structure always just made me think "temporary bridge," like they had last-minute realized they had built the station too far from the street and jury-rigged the bridge with parts from another project...

Amazing. How will the decking over the actual pike work? Will they actually close the road?

What's the huge blank circular structure on top of the Buckminster?

Oh my god, they just showed an aerial over the Sox game on TV, a wide enough shot that it showed all of Back Bay to downtown, and there it was right below the Citgo sign. Bright enough to identify, big enough to read (maybe because I knew what to look for, but sheesh). They must have payed out...

Is that one story parking garage on Ipswich between the Conservatory building and the High School still there? It's prime real estate, can't be long for this world. Maybe it's already gone, I haven't been down in that area for several months.

Wow. This seems like an accident waiting to happen. Is that seating for an active restaurant? Audubon maybe? Why couldn't the bike lane have gone around?

Kind of random, and this seemed like the best place to share it. I was helping a friend archive some old newspapers, and found this Globe article from October 21 1997. This would have been pretty bold for the time. Does anyone remember this?

The Dunkin and other businesses in the building on this lot appear to have closed permanently. Perhaps in preparation for demolition/construction?

This is the way to go, and I can't believe that after all the strides made over the past 15 years, this has not yet been entertained as an option. Although it's not a perfect analogue, I think this model has proved successful on the BU bridge (and I guess the Longfellow? I don't cross that one...

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but are there any plans for traffic calming at any of these at-grade crossings? Central Street in particular concerns me, as cars travel at speed downhill in both directions. And it basically becomes a lake during rainstorms at the point of the path...

How about Asylum? It sounds somehow like a T-stop name, and could pay homage to a soon-to-be-former denizen of the area, a la Lechmere.

4/12 Elevator skeletons rising at Magoun

Slight tangent, but... Whoa! I must be super-out-of-the-loop, this is Exit 133 now? How long has that been the case? I knew they were planning on changing to mileage-based signs, but I thought they'd have "OLD EXIT XX" up on the signs to smooth the transition, and I thought it was going to...

The School St bridge JUST got (is being) replaced. Is there a reason there couldn't have been grade-separation for the path here? Maybe not enough right-of-way? The crossing that really worries me is Central St. I really wish they could have avoided street crossing. Cars go so fast here...