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(Based on very limited knowledge/research so take this with a grain of salt but) No, Deer Island doesn't do remotely enough treatment for the water to be drinkable. It may be possible for it to be used for industrial or agricultural purposes but again I don't know. That being said, that kind...

That's to the corner of the garage which is still a ~3 minute walk from the platforms. That corner of the garage is ~4-5 minutes from where you'd put the CR platform. But why? The RL and Fitchburg Line already have a transfer station. It's not like the BL at Wonderland where at least you're...

Yes

Single-stairway buildings are exceedingly common in Europe and there aren't exactly deadly fire disasters on the regular.

So true, the waterfall made it feel like a real place and now it's just dead.

I mean I'm not terribly bothered by the human intervention aspect. Despite the flaws one human can still 'drive' multiple cars which has obviously not been possible before.

I'm fine giving him IAD, it's not like the Dulles brothers were any better.

I think the people who are most local, closest to the issue, and certainly the most affected are the local landowners. Shouldn't they get the biggest say in what they build?

...orrrrr it's a move that democratized land, allowing owners to decide for themselves what kind of home they want to build rather than being forced into an incredibly narrow design of SFH. Rather than centralizing power at the state level it returns power from local governments to the people...

I'm sometimes able to load it on my phone but not at all on my laptop

And that's the fundamental limit of an LLM, Garbage in, garbage out still applies. It can't reason, it just takes what you give it. But assuming you're capable doing the reasoning, and not literally just listing everything in your fridge, you should at least get a decent starting point for some...

It's pretty good at giving Wikipedia-level summaries of things with Wikipedia levels of accuracy. (Which given its training data should not be surprising at all.) This is reasonably useful, and something LLMs are quite good at. I mean I've not done a thorough investigation but it seems fairly...

The diesel heaters make me even more skeptical about whether these are actually better or if they are just better at taking more money from different buckets while taking less from individual ones. The BEBs are ~17% heavier than the existing diesel/hybrid or CNG buses, which equates to 87% more...

I'm not sure where I heard this but my understanding is yes, that's a contributing factor and it's shared across all the 1980s built stations on the system. See the Braintree branch and its rebuilt garages, and the general state of Porter/Davis.

Not lack of money, per the 2025 CIP the Braintree/Quincy Adams rehabs got a combined $130m while Alewife alone has gotten $76m for repairs.

You find 'shell' apartments for rent here in the Netherlands where you even need to bring your own floorboards.

Despite mostly hanging out in the transit threads this is actually what I'm most qualified to talk about. Compare Lowell St in Somerville to Devonshire St in downtown. Both are ~40-50ft building to building, but they feel completely different. Lowell St feels open, light, airy, personal, and...

I'm not sure I would consider the garage to be in better shape than it was back in 2017. Although the place I'd consider it most likely to happen would be the former 'express exit' which has been closed for quite some time now and is now a homeless encampment from what I've heard.

Crazy idea I know, but have we considered that 5-6 story buildings are in fact not the minimum size for multi-family homes? You can achieve similar density by targeting a higher GSI (IE: Denser street layout and/or closely spaced buildings) with individually smaller buildings. The densest block...

How long until this garage kills or involuntarily amputates someone? I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.