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...orrrrr it's a move that democratized land, allowing owners to decide for themselves what kind of home they want to build rather than being forced into an incredibly narrow design of SFH. Rather than centralizing power at the state level it returns power from local governments to the people...

I'm sometimes able to load it on my phone but not at all on my laptop

And that's the fundamental limit of an LLM, Garbage in, garbage out still applies. It can't reason, it just takes what you give it. But assuming you're capable doing the reasoning, and not literally just listing everything in your fridge, you should at least get a decent starting point for some...

It's pretty good at giving Wikipedia-level summaries of things with Wikipedia levels of accuracy. (Which given its training data should not be surprising at all.) This is reasonably useful, and something LLMs are quite good at. I mean I've not done a thorough investigation but it seems fairly...

The diesel heaters make me even more skeptical about whether these are actually better or if they are just better at taking more money from different buckets while taking less from individual ones. The BEBs are ~17% heavier than the existing diesel/hybrid or CNG buses, which equates to 87% more...

I'm not sure where I heard this but my understanding is yes, that's a contributing factor and it's shared across all the 1980s built stations on the system. See the Braintree branch and its rebuilt garages, and the general state of Porter/Davis.

Not lack of money, per the 2025 CIP the Braintree/Quincy Adams rehabs got a combined $130m while Alewife alone has gotten $76m for repairs.

You find 'shell' apartments for rent here in the Netherlands where you even need to bring your own floorboards.

Despite mostly hanging out in the transit threads this is actually what I'm most qualified to talk about. Compare Lowell St in Somerville to Devonshire St in downtown. Both are ~40-50ft building to building, but they feel completely different. Lowell St feels open, light, airy, personal, and...

I'm not sure I would consider the garage to be in better shape than it was back in 2017. Although the place I'd consider it most likely to happen would be the former 'express exit' which has been closed for quite some time now and is now a homeless encampment from what I've heard.

Crazy idea I know, but have we considered that 5-6 story buildings are in fact not the minimum size for multi-family homes? You can achieve similar density by targeting a higher GSI (IE: Denser street layout and/or closely spaced buildings) with individually smaller buildings. The densest block...

How long until this garage kills or involuntarily amputates someone? I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Some research based guesses: 2: Talbot Ave coming out of Ashmont, and Huntington Ave between Francis St and S. Huntington? 4.1: 66 along North Harvard St? 10.2: Assembly I should have gotten even without looking, Woodland and Ball Sq I'm less bothered by. 10.4: Riverside 10.5: Orient Heights and...

Not quite what it says. Broadly the argument is as follows: Neither the MBTA nor the roads currently have enough capacity for local demand, therefore traffic. If you want to 'fix traffic' then your options are as follows: Massive highway projects that bulldoze neighborhoods and cost loads...

NYC made it work for the SBS validation machines, and Toronto has Presto tap points at every (I think) GO station. There is nothing exceptional about New England weather than precludes their use.

Just a show-off post, here's my transit card collection going into 2026. I'm hoping to expand it quite a bit this year, I have a week long trip to Turkey planned where I should be able to get 5-6 more. Seattle Boston Porto London Paris Chicago NYC (RIP Metrocard) Also Porto Netherlands...

As far as I can tell there was never a streetcar route operating the section of the 109 between Harvard and Union Sq, that has always been a bus route since it was created in the early 1920s. I'm not actually sure why though, it doesn't seem especially hilly or narrow.

I've seen some recent plans for street designs downtown that have the BNRD Silver Line service as this, not the 'dog-leg' that was given. Here's the relevant section of my updated map.

My understanding is whenever you see this kind of back-to-back announcement of routes it's often a 'defensive' measure on the part of the second airline. The fact that Delta moved second would support that, they're trying to protect their emerging hub in Boston by ensuring that customers...