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I wonder if the automobile throughput across the bridge was also helped by the fact that what was 3 through lanes entering the bridge with the on-ramp traffic forced to merge in a pretty short stretch is now two through lanes entering the bridge with the on-ramp given its own dedicated lane...

In addition, the pedestrian signal timing is abysmal. They clearly only looked at car delay when timing the signals. If you follow the multi-stage crossings for peds and bikes, it takes FAR too long to get across the street. MassDOT really needs to learn that slapping on sidewalks and bike...

The irony is that the North End residents ASKED for those ramps to be there as part of the Big Dig. They were actually given the option to have no ramps in that area but they said "no."

I do not understand why they are keeping it as a two lanes eastbound at Harvard Ave when it is only ever fed by one lane from that intersection. It's such a waste of space in the most constrained part of the bridge!

I would accept bike/ped (and maybe bus) only connections!

I didn't realize the church is the reason why the ground level experience of One Dalton is so lousy. Very lame.

I really hate this game architects play these days where they hope we won't notice the top floor or two because they make it gray. You are not fooling anyone! I would actually just prefer that they make it the same color as the rest of the building, and don't even step it back. Just be honest!

BBQ in Boston simply is not good. I don't know what the problem is, but people can't seem to figure out how to make good BBQ here. I also think that BBQ is not something that people tend to think of for a nice sit-down dinner. To me, if you're going to do BBQ, it should be fast casual. It can...

It is very much possible to preserve historic buildings (or at bare minimum the facades) while the city continues to grow and evolve. That's a large part of what makes Boston so special. Once the old buildings are gone, there is nothing new that will ever come close to replacing them. No one...

Hey instead of staying home and watching the game on our TV screen, let's go to the stadium and watch it on the huge screen there (and pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege!) I thought the point of going to see things in person was to get away from screens.

Also, make all liquor licenses, including existing ones, non-transferrable.

I don't understand why the City doesn't just petition the Legislature to let them handle their own liquor licensing like EVERY OTHER CITY AND TOWN. And if the Legislature says no, drag the hell out of them publicly for it.

I beg to differ:

I am convinced that MassDOT has absolutely no focus or incentive to come up with a cost-efficient design and is only concerned about not reducing capacity during construction and reducing "bottlenecks" by adding more capacity in the final design. They tack on multi-use paths and call it a...

If people want to go from Worcester to NYC today via train, do most people take commuter rail to Boston and then Amtrak from there, or Peter Pan/Greyhound bus to Springfield and Amtrak from there?

Why does "high end" still look cheap?

One of my pet peeves with MassDOT's "complete streets" designs is that they are STILL trying to build/add car capacity and then adding more sidewalks and bike lanes on top of that. In many locations, the physical constraints of the right of way prevent them from adding even more lanes, but in a...

What would be REALLY cool is a temporary stop in W Springfield during the Big E. I don't know if that's possible but the LSL goes within about 0.6 mile of the Big E:

This is definitely better, especially with the urban form, but the materials and architectural details leave much to be desired.

"We have designed a beautiful network of safe protected bike lanes. Now we are going to have a bunch of community meetings where a bunch of old cranky car drivers complain and then we will make the design worse in order to try to please them (which it will not.)"