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Kinda tells you how profitable development is that they can write off 30 million for community benefits.

Trains after they go to sleep. Photo credit to my friend @lupinephotos on Instagram.

A sightline isn't a material outcome. Houses for people to live in are part of reality. Let's focus on real things. People have this idea that a building occupying a place that was previously sky is psychically damaging. That makes no sense. Buildings for the most part just sit there. It's not a...

This left side of the map is pretty nonsensical. Probably the part most worth pushing against if density is going to move to Cambridge.

It's just the kind of thing that is an easy mental trap to fall into. It's what I call a coworker opinion. Like some guy comes over to your desk and is like, you hear they want to make buildings with one staircase! Those idiots! But really he hasn't thought about it for more than two seconds and...

And it has future transit access, just steps from track 61! /s

I don’t mind holding architects and planners accountable. It’s a welcome change and god knows how much we pay them to half ass it

I remember hearing a long time ago that the boring company's innovation was using sewer tunneling technology which is more common and therefore cheaper to reduce costs compared to the big TBMs that everyone has always used for trains. If anyone has seen videos of their dinky tunnel in Vegas...

We have some of the oldest electric trains in the US. For some reason that is lost on everyone in power and we have to do a secret third thing.

Wait, I thought we were being assured that this gadgety battery thing was just for the fairmount line and only for budget reasons? Now we are going to pay for batteries to lynn? What on earth is going on?

I wonder if it's possible to get the "new" FAA to sit at the table and renegotiate this little map they drew.

Love living in a post-profit era. Nothing needs to make money. It need only be financed.

Cambridge has voted to ban broker's fees. But for weird Mass reasons this has to be approved by the legislature. Unpaywalled globe article here.

I think you will always have a hard time convincing progressives that development doesn’t make money hand over fist. Most people live in 100 year old buildings and pay through the nose for them, and those landlords live like kings. They really only stop profiting so much when another owner buys...

https://binj.news/2022/12/14/redesigning-union-squares-substation/ Found an interview of some kind if people want a soruce.

I think the bridge is structurally unsafe right? Which is why they rotated it and it’s no longer used for walking.

This building seems to reject the idea that buildings should have structure. It's like they were required to have a facade at street level, and then said f it, glass box on top.

The realtor wasn't a liar, they just read too much ArchBoston and started dooming ;)

Dead-end the highway where it meets Broadway near 93 to cut off the traffic, and convert to local roads around the station, with no direct route from one side to the other. Somerville Ave is a beautiful street and then you get to target and you're just in hell. This makes me realize that the...

I listened to the task force meeting today, there is a big lecture therein from who I think is a T person about them needing the space and a lot of scolding about people who continue to ask about the yard. Was kind of surprised.