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5K is averaged over the entire year – average weekday ridership is higher than that. Source: https://gpmetro.org/1625/Performance-Statistics Note that 2024 ridership is on track to ~almost~ match pre-pandemic ridership, which is pretty impressive compared to other transit agencies. Metro...

Uh, what? I don't disagree with your premise that Roux needs to build on-site housing, but have you ever ridden a city bus? Metro averages over 5,000 riders every day, and the new Roux campus is within walking distance of three routes – the 9A, 9B, and the 7 – that together offer direct...

Bath's public housing agency making some big moves: "With 17.28 acres to work with, Bath Housing plans to place up to 190 housing units on Congress Avenue." https://www.pressherald.com/2024/09/12/bath-nonprofit-plans-housing-project-to-reshape-congress-avenue/ Phase one, with 48 apartments...

Thank you. The PPD's violent constitutional violations are extremely well-documented – try googling "Nicholas Goodman wrongful death" – but we don't need to stray off topic here. I'll delete my previous post as well.

That was the case 7 years ago, but the traffic volumes cited above now justify a 3-lane cross section all the way from Commercial to Fox/Somerset (and as I noted, there's precedent: MaineDOT has already allowed similar road diets on busier streets, like Washington Avenue in East Deering). I've...

The traffic volumes have actually been on the decline for 20+ years – this trend was also observed when the city did the older Franklin Street redesign study way back in 2015. Daily traffic volumes on Franklin are actually pretty similar to the daily pre-pandemic volumes in the 2022 counts I...

That's quite an assertion – but it's false. Traffic engineers have already modeled the design and found that a 2-lane Franklin Street will function just as well as the poorly-designed 4-lane version, which wastes a dozen acres of valuable downtown real estate. If you at MaineDOT's new traffic...

Some nice new mixed-use infill (retail with 18 apartments above) located on Auburn's Main Street, next to the Androscoggin River: ` The project just had a groundbreaking ceremony: https://wgme.com/newsletter-daily/groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-new-multi-use-building-in-auburn-maine-main-street

Some nice drone shots of the Wedgewood public housing construction progress from the Sun Journal:

It is a landbanked rail ROW, but won't likely ever be converted back to railroad use. The new interstate Tukey's Br. obliterated the Union Branch connection across Back Cove to East Deering, so it would require building a new RR alignment around the sewage treatment plant and a new bridge across...

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but as the T rolls out more truly physically-separated dedicated busways, like Columbus Ave., alongside the new frequent-service routes, I struggle to understand why the SL4/5 line on Washington St. and the SL1 through the airport deserve the same...

C. Michael Lewis did a lot of fanciful drawings like this one – I think it would be a stretch to call it a real proposal, more like wishful thinking. Looks like the date next to his signature (in the median of Marginal Way) was 2000, which would put it in the same era as the "New Vision For...

This was a good read about why it's so hard to redevelop these kinds of single-story, single-tenant retail buildings... https://ggwash.org/view/93853/whats-the-deal-with-single-tenant-retail-buildings

@portlandneedsnewarena , where's this from?

Like I said, figure out how to raise $30 or $40 million and you could make it happen! I find it noteworthy that Costco isn't offering to pay for it – kind of seems like it might not be worth the money. The prices at Costco might be cheap, but they're not nearly cheap enough to justify wasting...

Ha ha, not unless you wanna raise your gas taxes by a few million dollars! Westbrook ended up spending a whopping $2.6 million to widen about 400' feet of Clarke Drive last year (see page 52 of this document). At that rate, a mile-long road widening would cost Scarborough about 1/4th of its...

New design has been posted: https://selfservice.portlandmaine.gov/EnerGov_Prod/selfservice#/plan/64358869-3dca-4858-ba6f-fae620ec74d3?tab=attachments

I note that the architects for this one are Lever – the same Oregon firm that's working on Redfern's Washington Ave. project IIRC. Wonder if they're opening up a local office...

This kind of cognitive bias ("everybody that I know has a car") is a great example of how car-dependent communities get forced on us. In fact, the Census Bureau counts over 40,000 car-free households in Maine, the vast majority of whom do not live in Portland (but would probably love to live...

There have been some interesting, albeit quiet, conversations at MaineDOT recently about removing I-295 from the Interstate system and making it a slower, cheaper-to-maintain surface street, kind of like Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Right now, most of I-295's infrastructure is nearing the end...