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I feel like we're stuck in this chicken or the egg problem where we don't invest in building-out the alternate routes/modes because there's already viable car travel that works kind of fine for most people, and we won't reduce investment in the automotive side of the transportation network...

Idk, replacement does not have to mean a replacement of existing conditions. If they remove the overpass and fulfill all our wildest dreams they're still replacing it with something. I don't think we need to read that much into it. The irony of your "playing Sim City" comment is I believe that...

Piggy-backing off this to share some work we've been doing at the MPO on how heat influences perceived distance for people walking: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124006498 https://www.ctps.org/no-heat Everett has been one of the key partners on this work with a...

This somehow undersells how barren the land is (and has been for a long time). I had a long layover at Union Station last year and figured I'd wait at a nearby coffee shop or bar. There isn't one within a half mile (excluding the dunks inside the station)

Earnest question, why were Quincy Adams and Braintree able to get funded for major garage work (and Quincy Center rightfully getting demolished) while Alewife languishes?

And to be clear, it should be quite simple to pay one's tickets. I wouldn't at all advocate for making it a bigger burden logistically. Again, though, it seems evident the current regulatory scheme is insufficient to deter scofflaws.

One would think Eng's hypothetical job approval numbers are high and pols would want to learn from that. Alas.

No, it was just a weird joke post

At a certain point they should stop writing tickets and start towing. Isabella Bachman averages 3 tickets a month, so 36 a year. Presumably all in the same area. Tow the damn car. Edit: I also can't believe these people were willing to give their names and so casually admit to this.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/16/metro/parking-is-tops-when-it-comes-to-boston-311-calls/ Lot of interesting stuff in the article about 311 response times too, but really my takeaway is "clearly current policies are not a deterrence"

Man the folks at the Globe really have a lot to say on this one (third article in three days). Though buried in this one....I'm interested to see what the mayor/city are trying to pull together on this. Could be nothing more than "we've chatted with folks and are deeply saddened" or maybe...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/16/lifestyle/logan-customer-satisfaction-burgers-arcade-games/

I'm glad they've shifted to upzoning along the Mattapan line instead of alongside 93.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/15/newsletters/camberville-newsletter-alewife/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/business/time-out-market-boston-closing/ On Alexandria:

Yeah, I stayed with a friend in Madrid a couple years back and her apartment had no kitchen. Just a one burner and a mini-fridge that she had provided. There was also only one window in the unit and it faced an interior courtyard. On the flip side she was paying a couple hundred euros a month...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/13/go-ace-bus-stops-are-clearer-than-ever-thanks-to-mtas-bus-mounted-camera-enforcement I am so excited for this on the MBTA system

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/metro/scooter-mbta-bus/

Yeah they mention that in the article that it (should) help to control costs. It will also be better for the students/staff during the transition as they won't have to set up a pop-up school on the athletic fields while construction happens, which would have been the case if they remained at the...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/14/business/wu-roxbury-madison-park/ The quotes make it sound as if the life sciences center was going to happen and Boston pulled the plug on it...which does not appear to at all be the case.