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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/metro/boylston-bus-lane-to-be-removed/ The article is mostly about the Boylston St bus lanes, but there's a fair amount about the city's bike infrastructure.

Streetsblog's reporting in the article you shared yesterday showed how A Better City thought the viaduct funds could be used to help adjust the staging, saving time and money. This in particular is what I was curious about. As far as I'm aware (but I'd love to be corrected), MassDOT has not...

As far as I'm aware, there has never been a professional estimate given to the public. There's a chance A Better City or Harvard has commissioned one internally, but that's all conjecture at this point. If anyone knows, it's almost certainly @StreetsblogMASS who has done great reporting on this...

A PDA Amendment has been introduced to loosen the allowed uses at the ground floor of Lantera. They've never been able to find tenants for all of those units and hopefully this helps. It also goes to show that the demand for retail around Boston Landing isn't as high as anticipated, and probably...

Thank you for that Harry and I had forgotten we were getting 10-15 years of preservation instead of just a few. This definitely does reduce the urgency on the project, but there is the (possible) silver lining of better project staging for when the viaduct actually comes down.

Mentioned this in the Cambridge zoning thread, but the Planning Department is quietly proposing a significant loosening of zoning rules dubbed "Neighborhood Housing" (short survey for anyone interested). While the primary stated purpose is to allow for easier ADU construction, it sure looks like...

At the level Cambridge did, probably not. But looking at Burhan Azeem's Primer, no other city in the US has gone this far either. Let's also not forget that the transportation access (and frequency high-paying local jobs) blow neighborhoods like West Roxbury and Hyde Park out of the water. That...

Maybe this is just my cynicism showing, but in many ways I think the project would benefit from losing the grant. As we've been discussing, the project is in a really bad spot and rushing to get everything finalized by next Fall is only making things worse. The designs we are seeing are bad...

What's the source here and do you have any additional information? Last I heard there was no public info on the RFP Keolis is issuing for the BEMU pilot.

Thank you for those corrections, @F-Line to Dudley. I was trying to remember everything from the meeting and clearly made some mistakes. I was also trying to only reiterate the points made in the meeting by MassDOT, instead of presenting them as fact, which was certainly not clear in my first...

Maybe, but based on the lack of progress we're seeing from East-West Rail and Regional Rail, malice is not needed to explain these designs. Also, city representatives seemed to indicate they would fight the state tooth and nail to prevent any new diesel maintenance facility within city limits...

First, the issue with Grand Junction is not layover space but access to Boston Engine Terminal (BET) in Somerville. I believe this is the only site where heavy maintenance can be performed on the CR locomotives and GJ is how all south side locos access BET. The city of Boston also effectively...

If I had to guess, the consultant team (and probably MassDOT too) are quite frustrated at being constantly called out for not doing their jobs well. During the meeting, no one could specify if the new layovers were needed overnight, for midday, or both, whether their were options further west on...

Listening to the "I-90 Allston Rail and Transit Working Group Meeting" right now and more details about the "Worcester 30-30" upgrades were presented. It would include all-day 30-minute frequencies on both a zonal express to and from Worcester and local service to and from Framingham. This was...

From what I've seen, it looks unlikely that traditional NYC subway cars will be run along the corridor even if it is fully grade-separated. The local Transit Worker's Union (TWU) is very strongly opposed to automation and I believe has a handshake agreement with the MTA to not automate subway...

I can't help but feeling a bit disappointed that we are going to be seeing more weeklong shutdowns, especially for "proactive rail maintenance" and "infrastructure work". Cynically, it looks like the earlier TIP work was not done as well as later shutdowns, to the point where some of it requires...

https://www.mbta.com/news/2025-01-17/mbta-shares-planned-service-outage-scheduled-january-june-2025 Noted outages: RL Ashmont to JFK/UMass from April 1 – April 9 for proactive rail maintenance. OL North Station to Oak Grove from May 10 – May 18 to support MassDOT’s Maffa...

I was reviewing the video for this event and there was a mention of making improvements to the Green Line central tunnel with the implication it would result in lower headways (roughly between timestamps 1:08:20 and 1:08:50). I understand GLTPS should help some on this front, but are there other...

The answer is it doesn't unless it's done nationally. However, there is a user fee that solves this problem. Unfortunately, that answer is tolling.

This is somewhat tangential, but one of Boston's participatory budget ideas is for bus stop bench installation. More specifically: For more information and for budget voting: https://www.boston.gov/departments/participatory-budgeting/ideas-action-cycle-one-proposals