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  1. MjolnirMan

    Boston Alt History

    FWIW, F-Line's direct link to http://therealcape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vineyard-bridge.jpg didn't embed here for me either, so here's re-upload:
  2. MjolnirMan

    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    Yes - TFRI has a dedicated cross-honoring fares planning document that cites a number of peer system examples.
  3. MjolnirMan

    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    I assume someone here knows - what are current Amtrak (specifically Northeast Regional) service levels relative to pre-pandemic? I recently reached out to RIDOT to ask how this part of the Rhode Island Transit Master Plan was going: And I got the following reply:
  4. MjolnirMan

    Bay Village Apartment Tower | 212 Stuart St. | Bay Village

    From Tufts Medical (looking through what should have been the Parcel P-12 tower site):
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    The Parker Boston (nee LaGrange Tower) | 47-55 LaGrange St. | Downtown

    While your point about the lower floors is still fair, I've seen the top of this building from some pretty surprising angles and think the views are going to be pretty amazing. I was impressed by how much was visible from Memorial Drive over by MIT, and this shot is from Stuart and Berkeley...
  6. MjolnirMan

    Providence East Side Railroad Tunnel

    I still maintain that a single new excavated stop at/around the Brown Science Library, plus stops right at either tunnel portal, would probably be workable for LRT/BRT to serve College Hill appropriately, especially given the proximity to bus "feeders" coming through the nearby trolley tunnel...
  7. MjolnirMan

    Providence East Side Railroad Tunnel

    I've had similar musings about transit re-use. The most parsimonious rail connection would indeed be an elevated structure above Memorial Blvd (makes sense, as that's what it was designed for), and you could conceivably build a modern and attractive minimal viaduct that eventually descends under...
  8. MjolnirMan

    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    Are you talking about the Green Line tunnel ventilation stack?
  9. MjolnirMan

    Parcel R-1 | 55 Hudson | Chinatown

    For those out of the loop since the Chinatown library branch was planned as part of the Parcel P-12 development on Tremont St.: that project was contingent on the off-site affordable housing funds from Winthrop Center. The COVID-related redesign of that building, which reduced a 2nd residential...
  10. MjolnirMan

    Lyrik Back Bay | 1001 Boylston Street (Parcel 12) | Back Bay

    The North tower is residential - it's likely that they couldn't find people who'd want an apartment or hotel room sandwiched at grade on either side by I-90 West and the Newbury onramp. However, you would think it'd be a good location for expanded BOH like laundry or electrical, but perhaps...
  11. MjolnirMan

    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    I wouldn't exactly call the former train arrival point glamorous... especially with the deteriorating condition of the platforms/overhangs and bad patch-jobs. Track 1 had that plywood scaffolding for years! If you view the platform and new archway area as a prolonged exit of the train, and then...
  12. MjolnirMan

    DOT Parcels | 25-28 Kneeland Street | Chinatown

    Ehh, it's not a scenic walk and is stretching the definition of "adjacent", but from the corner of S. Station Connector & Albany to the corner of Herald & Albany is about 1100' straight down the sidewalk on Albany... about the distance from the S. Station Bus entrance down Beach St. to the...
  13. MjolnirMan

    Apex Pyramid | 100 Main Street | Pawtucket

    ProJo: Stall tactics and abuse of power alleged as Apex saga drags on in court
  14. MjolnirMan

    The Parker Boston (nee LaGrange Tower) | 47-55 LaGrange St. | Downtown

    Presumably a construction vehicle for this project didn't quite make the 3-point-turn:
  15. MjolnirMan

    Hope Point Tower (Fane) | 250 Dyer Street | Providence

    I have to say, while I've been more open to this kind of avant garde project than many people in the area, I'm disappointed at the exact site this is going ahead on. I had initially thought this was going to be at 200 Dyer, but it's planned to be directly across from 225 Dyer - on what is...
  16. MjolnirMan

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Boston Common | Downtown

    Alternate pitch: a statue of the two of them dressed as in this photograph, near this same location (or on the Common if you need more space for plaques). Those arms could be anyone's.
  17. MjolnirMan

    Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Boston Common | Downtown

    Art, like architecture, can absolutely be phenomenal or terrible due to being acontextual to its surroundings. Maybe the Chicago Bean is one example of the former. I may be a philistine, but this is one of the latter cases to me. A magnificent larger-than-life statue of Dr. King himself standing...
  18. MjolnirMan

    City Hall Plaza Revamp | Government Center

    This wasn't the Mike's point, but to be fair, check out some other downtown playgrounds (Elliot Norton Park, for instance). Even before COVID, they were largely occupied with encampments that scared off parents & kids, and BOS:311 indicates this is a broader problem throughout the neighborhoods...
  19. MjolnirMan

    Parcel 25 | Kneeland St | Chinatown

    Yes, the trellis they propose is functionally identical to just ignoring that part of the parcel - doesn't help with air quality, noise, or providing new space for parks, dog walking, buildings, etc. I realize this is more of a solution looking for a problem, but this parcel connects under the...
  20. MjolnirMan

    Supertalls in Boston?

    The FAA zoning is somewhat limiting to towers but not impossible to work with to develop some "pretty talls" on otherwise fairly open parcels. Government Center Plaza could max out between 725-800+' (depending on location), the area around North Station (O'Neill, Nashua St., etc.) could hit...

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