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In the agenda for tonight's planning board meeting: an MBTA communities act project at 90 Columbia St. 3 story building with a daycare and swim school on the first floor, 6 units on top of it. 25 parking spaces. Currently a single story office building hosting a printing company with 20 parking...

The city (and state)'s leadership hasn't done it any favors, but it really is facing a lot of headwinds. Its geographic reason to exist (last point to which you could run a big ship up the CT river) is irrelevant. Its former core industries have no more reason to locate there. If you are a...

I don't disagree with anything you said. What i take issue with is how the article (and the conversation around school transportation costs in general) looks at that uncritically rather than considering how to reduce these liabilities long term. Its not all that different from other long term...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/metro/mbta-budget-rmv-congestion-pricing/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/opinion/school-bus-costs/ Coming from an edu background this has long been a pet issue of mine. I hate that last line in the article, it's become so deeply ingrained that its a school district's responsibility to provide yet another subsidy for sprawl by...

Road Safety Audit for Five-Corners and the intersection of Forbes/Granite has been published: https://tooledesign.egnyte.com/fl/4bCqh4jHBQwV The biggest piece I'd note is the recommendation to remove the slip lane at the I-93 NB Exit 6 ramp that empties onto Granite St SB. Mostly otherwise a...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/business/roxbury-development-madison-park/

If it weren't CT's capital, Hartford would be full on Waterbury. Very little going for it structurally.

This sounds like an ADA nightmare

We should be making non-autonomous taxis do this anyway and iirc Kenmore was the exact neighborhood Boston ran a successful pilot of that with (or, it was a designated drop off area within Kenmore rather than outside of it, but similar in concept). Edit: one thing I want to dive deeper on is...

The lawsuit point is fascinating. I was wondering if Quincy was leaving itself open to ADA lawsuits by not requiring residents to shovel. Mind blowing that the suits are going in the opposite direction.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/metro/waymo-boston-self-driving-cars/ I'm deeply skeptical of their widespread viability in complex urban environments, though people seem to like them in SF and Austin from the little I've looked into it. I just don't see how they can be both convenient...

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/train-derails-in-mansfield-officials-say/3696509/?_branch_match_id=1438298017978666034

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/1/27/pedestrian-jfk-street/

And somehow people dealing with hardly useable sidewalks and bus stops manage to keep their heads. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/space-saver-fight-dorchester

"We're going to build east-west rail and the nutmeggars are going to pay for it!"

What is the pitch for this? Would they eliminate Porter?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/snow-removal-equipment-breakdown-9.7065208 They haven't been having a banner year themselves. Sadly I think you could apply this statement to a host of issues in urban planning. And yet here we are. Planning best practices have a huge...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/metro/ri-dot-director-peter-alviti-resigns/

Not saying I endorse this idea in the specific, but we do need to be considering how we can better manage major snow events (particularly as the climate is heading towards higher intensities of precipitation when they do come) and it's people who aren't driving that are presently most impacted.