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I can't think of any on pavement markings that are poorly maintained in Massachusetts 🙃 Actually I cannot think of seeing many on pavement markings at all.

There is online chatter that some drivers find the shifts disconcerting in snowy and other visibility limited conditions, particularly when the on pavement markings are obscured.

The building next door to the right has a property line window on the side, which would trigger a setback for fire hazard. They must be proposing blocking the window (which should not be there on the property line anyway, per code).

I think a bigger part of the justification is the accident rate at the rotary -- over 50 accidents per year. It is the most dangerous location on Route 2.

The third option, the diverging diamond interchange, would probably have the best traffic flow and non-vehicle experience. But I don't know whether Massachusetts drivers could wrap their head around the DDI.

Something like 20% of the South End is postwar redevelopment buildings. Major block long buildings on Columbus and Tremont. Villa Victoria, Cathedral Housing, Castle Square, Rollins Square, etc. Then you have the New York Streets that are all very new development. And SoWa, which was never...

Yes, the thin space is separately owned. It is a series of old rowhouse parcels along Harvard Street owned by the Chinese Christian Church of New England. They would not cooperate with the BPDA on the current 55 Hudson development. If you see an empty space left in Chinatown, it is likely a...

I don't know how you make sense out of light industrial uses for space in the urban core. You would have to be making an incredibly valuable product that needed something else only available in the urban core to be produced. Also even light manufacturing involves logistics, materials in...

The biggest flow change you need to create is to address the vehicle trips to/from Back Bay Station -- which all tend to use the Dartmouth Street side. That creates a lot of the flow on Dartmouth to Back Bay.

Just to put this in perspective. a partial closure on the Northern Line in London is far more disruptive than a full closure of the B branch on the Green Line. The Northern Line is the Tube's busiest line, with over 300 Million passengers per year. That is not a typo. The Northern Line...

Isn't this unusual, steel before a core?

You mean like these closures in London? (I just grabbed the current weekend closure for comparison -- long shutdowns happen.) "Major 2026 London Underground closures include a four-month partial closure of the Northern line and significant, multi-month shutdowns on the Piccadilly line for...

I think frequent weekend (or longer) closures for maintenance are a fact of life for older transit systems. Even without deferred maintenance (which most government authorities are guilty of, anyway) they are needed. Here are the London and Paris closure schedules for this long weekend there...

The Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown is a pretty good example of a mid-rise middle/high school (6 stories plus roof-top outdoor classroom space), executed effectively in constrained urban space.

Mostly safety systems and other items, not really track work: MBTA "The MBTA will perform work on a number of critical projects on the B branch during this nine-day service outage, including infrastructure improvements, the continued installation of Green Line Train Protection System (GLTPS)...

I think the answer is "car brain". When you think your only job is to move the most cars, you don't think of things like a bike overpass.

Generally it works well as residential once converted, but the conversion is quite costly. We have numerous example of building becoming blighted by neglect rather than being converted to another use, because the conversion cost is too high. Blighted building are of no benefit and huge...

The buildings being converted are not going to be replacements for suburban office parks. They are older Class B and C office space that is poor space for today's businesses, but pretty decent space as residential. The amount of office space being taken off the market is not huge -- it does...

That site is exceptionally clean well manicured for a recent demolition. Seems like top quality work.

Somebody with pull did not want their upper level windows blocked.