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    355 Bennington Street | East Boston

    This is really coming out nicely. Triple pane windows and the only air input goes through a filtered ERV. Having walked the site a number of times it is surprisingly remarkable how much sound is blocked out along the south, highway facing, portion of the building.
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    Roads and Highways General Development Thread

    This may belong more in the "Crazy" thread than anything, but why not consider a subterranean option? Provide eastern portals just west of the State Police barracks and western portal just east of the Rail Trail access road. Provide collector/distributor roads (to avoid tunnel on/off ramps) that...
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    Quincy Infill and Small Developments

    This seems like the Mayor is playing land speculator. What is the goal here? Purchase the property, upzone (barely based on early conversations) and then see piecemeal for a hopeful profit? I completely agree that the land should sell to a private developer OR the city should facilitate a master...
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    Mission Hill Parcel 25 | Tremont St @ Roxbury Crossing

    I agree with everything you bring up here. Financing is such a pain in the butt for developers with just how they have to stack different capital entities to make everything work just right. The 100% affordable is totally a bad approach, but what is interesting is with tax credits and...
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    Braintree infill and small developments

    Is Liberty leaving Quincy Center or is it opening a second location? Sorry don't have a subscription
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    Roads and Highways General Development Thread

    I also believe that bike lanes should be on main roads, but Eastern may provide a bit of opportunity for a compromise due to the proximity of US Bicycle Route 1/East Coast Greenway. Because the path is one block off Eastern, it may be possible to do a bike lane along the southern side of Eastern...
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    The Vale Boston (Kraft Foods Redevelopment) | Woburn

    So what appears to boil down to is politics over society, that's very unfortunate and again, shortsighted (IMO). I understand the "no obligation" arguement, but that doesn't make it a good one. There is what appears to be a fire access road there already and I would say Forest appears to be a...
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    The Vale Boston (Kraft Foods Redevelopment) | Woburn

    Is there an adverse grade to connect into Erie Street or Grape Street? Maybe the impact on or bridging over the Aberjona River that was that deciding factor. But I would agree that not connecting this development in from the get go was a pretty bad idea. Even with the original lab plan, only...
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    Greenway Residential Building | 55 India Street | Downtown

    Finally have some vertical construction. Taken today while Enjoying the weather
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    Quincy Infill and Small Developments

    If the design had gone all monochromatic, people would complain about that too. So there is no winning for architects in general. There is only so much that can be done with residential units and keep costs within a reasonable line.
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    Biking in Boston

    Almost like a country who has heavily invested in cycling has some knowledge on the topic haha
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    This issue is the City of Boston governments own doing! While I wholeheartedly disagree with the vague notion that the Bus Lane project is racist, I don't disagree with the arguement that city's implementation strategy could be considered a civil rights violation. The arguement could be made...
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    Biking in Boston

    To me, these kinds of recommendations are what make things unenforceable. I know other folks have discussed the 3 classes (and apologies that I am late to the discussion) and I think that is where it should stop. There is so much variation within each speed classification of these...
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Ummmm, I think you may have missed the point of my post. Stlin used the two bridges as a an explanation to which I responded asking why we think two parallel spans should take close to a decade to build using the example of the Tappan Zee Bridge (also two spans) taking about the same amount of...
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Are we really all conditioned into believing that building a bridge span should take 4-5 years? On the face of it, I agree it doesn't seem too bad, but thinking about it more it seems like 4-5 years would be more reasonable for both spans. We are talking about approximately TEN YEARS to build...
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    I would argue that with White Stadium being used by the Legacy and BPS, those local establishments will get a lot of business with some turnover, but not entirely. The folks who are supporting women's sports today (at least in the current socio-economic-political climate) tend to want to shop at...
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    Seaport Neighborhood - Infill and Discussion

    Pretty cool honestly! The renewable intent behind the building functionality and the kinetic action of the facade feels a bit like ocean waves rolling on to the beach.
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    355 Bennington Street | East Boston

    It would make sense for a SL3 stop to be connected to the greenway at Bremen Street Park II. Then there is a car free walk to the BPL branch and through the project's Greenway improvements from this project there is a direct, a car-lite walk into Day Square. To be fair to the design of this...
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    Congestion toll in Boston?

    There is definitely a collateral damage part of the conversation (which I have mentioned in my earlier posts) that needs to be acknowledged for lower income households. I would be interested to see data points that comparing driving commutes with household income. I would be interested to see if...
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    Congestion toll in Boston?

    The T isn't fully to blame for people "having" to be in traffic. The model in the US has made it essential to sit in traffic because we became obsessed with cars and requiring space for cars at every establishment that we build. The T became unreliable because the overinvestment in this car...

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