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If viaduct width is a concern, you could take even more inspiration from Fallout, and existing commuter trains could be modified to be dual conventional and overhead monorail like the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, and switch modes during the transfer (precedent exists at Silver Line Way with the...

This is a ridiculous suggestion. The grade change would either be too steep or require unreasonably long ramps on either end as you outline. The obvious solution is something similar to the Falkirk Wheel, where trains pull into South Station, are lifted on rails to the elevated viaduct above the...

Sadly, the Hancock observation deck was brought to the attention of then-Mayor Walsh in a 2014 Reddit AMA and nothing ever came of it. A social media connection recently posted some selfies from some kind of site visit to the outdoor roof deck component (obscured to protect privacy).

Are you talking about Brown lot #81? (from the master Parking Map document): Other compelling candidates (IMO) would be combining the lots of 108 and 105N between the Laboratories for Molecular Medicine building (70 Ship) and the Medical School (222 Richmond), or the combination of 200 Dyer...

I believe the door to the right of the image you posted is leading to either the stairs or elevator to the expanded bus platform above (purple "islands" near the center of this image):

RIPTA is planning to update the East Side Transit Tunnel and are doing some surveys based on their ideas. It looks like a couple of the designs for the west portal incorporate a bidirectional bus corridor on Washington Place heading towards Kennedy Plaza Site...

I want to try to clarify what we're discussing here - is it that presence of the I-90 highway is the MINORITY CONTRIBUTOR to Chinatown air pollution or that it is NOT AN ADDED HARM to the Chinatown community beyond the surface roads? The former may have some scientific backing in that the trench...

This is maddening. I have noticed the horrible condition of every single light fixture's anchor point every time I've crossed this bridge, and even pointed it out to people I'm walking with as a fun bit of trivia about the role of metals in concrete decay, noting with some horror how such a new...

Did my annual follow-up with RIDOT about the December 2020 plan to cross-honor Zone 8 MBTA passes on Amtrak NER between BOS-PVD. In December 2020, they said: And they envisioned this happening quickly despite the pandemic: However, in December 2021, they replied: Amtrak service levels on...

Nothing too exciting - just consistent work and progress on this project since groundbreaking. I still think the adjacent highway air rights parcels would have been a good place to rebuild the lower and upper schools, and/or local library, park, community center, etc. - a good place for...

The Chinatown Community Land Trust has reached out to the Chinese Christian Church of New England (currently located on Beacon Street in Brookline) to explore the potential purchase of the remaining strip of parking lot, with the goal of developing it into a public green space for the particular...

It looks like that may be because it was once envisioned to be so:

Wasting no time getting structural steel up, starting at the Harrison Ave side:

Big crane assembled on site!

Regardless (people in the northeast do still commute in the winter, including by walking and biking), the companies still deploy the units as they are often mandated to via contracts, and they do not do a good job prepping their fleet for snow. While BlueBikes can coordinate with the cities to...

As someone who has extensively used docked bikeshare in Boston AND dockless bikes/scooters in Providence, the latter is a bit of a disaster. In Providence, bikes are not only docked by users in the middle of narrow sidewalks wherever is most convenient for them, they are often deployed this...

"Ooops! All Silver Line!"

Not sure the best place to post this, but this was spotted near Citizens Plaza:

Copley Sq is also out of scale for the High Spine and the planned redesign does nothing to help this. 0 stories?! You could easily squeeze 1-2 Prudential Towers on that site.

City Hall Plaza Supertall