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I'm lamenting the loss of the urban fabric. The photo evokes a bustling square of commerce that's been lost. We talk a lot about street walls here, and I feel that the corner lot really ties a lot of the old square together. Now it's a green space which is better than a parking lot or another...

I was remarking to my sister a week or so ago about that picture of Gilman Square. It's so depressing. The loss of the corner lot at Medford and Pearl hits me the hardest. Hopefully the new train station invigorates that area again.

How in the hell did that "Gillman Square" sign make it to opening day?

Whenever I walk over to the path, I think this needs to be utilized as a grand entrance to the path and replace the metal ramp/staircase hidden away.

I've ridden my bike around the city as my primary commuter for ~15 years. Hi-vis and a helmet would never have prevented the multiple times a car has hit me, and hi-vis and a helmet didn't prevent or aleviate any of my injuries. If the lack of hi-vis and helmets was such an issue for ride share...

I keep waiting to show up in one of these photos around the area, but my kid's friend's mom beat me to it.

That new bridge seems like it could be a real game changer in the future.

absolute tangent, but what is the water quality of the Mystic? I have no qualms about swimming in the Charles as long as it hasn't rained recently and I don't have to touch the bottom, but thinking about swimming in the Mystic gives me the heebee jeebies

this is discussed a ton in the design a better boston crazy pitch threads, but again, the orange line can't be branched before malden center. The green line reconfiguration thread is where the "realistic" options for transit in this section of Everett is. I can't find the mockups, but...

tl;dr from the crazy transit pitch thread in design a better boston, branching the orange line before malden center is a non-starter. There are pitches in the green line reconfiguration thread that loosely follow that alignment from brickbottom, but all of this is decades away fantasy land talk...

interesting they're using type 9s to test even though they can't run revenue service, since they don't have stop signs for the street stops on the E line

Somerville is also in the process of finishing the three way intersection of Broadway, Winchester and Albion Sts, making a large permanent curb bump out at Albion and Broadway and pedestrian refuge on Broadway

The Medford St bridge has finally been re-opened.

I really hope its removed soon. It's not enforced in any way and considering the bustitution they were made for is over, they're not serving any purpose any more.

It's too bad that ramp is in the middle of such a clusterfuck of an intersection. It could have been a cool parklet type thing

Really? I live in Magoun and besides the lack of streets beyond Lowell and Central that go from Medford St to Highland+, I don't miss these bridges in any way. IMO the lack of these bridges simplifies traffic patterns. edit: My kid has gone to multiple day cares in the vicinity so I was...

Looks like you can see some remnants of the yard in the pic in this post: http://archboston.com/community/threads/suffolk-downs-redevelopment-east-boston-revere.4887/post-427288

I walked by around noon and stopped to let my kid watch that bobcat do its work. What a tragedy.

They're both handy, but looking at the New Train Tracker is nicer. I want them to add the Union and Tufts branches in, though. Just waiting on this pull request

This sounds like an absurd nightmare and has to be representative of the build quality as a whole https://redd.it/t91i51