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This has already come up a bit, but I think if you want to figure out how people get to/from Longwood, you really also need to look at the buses. In the other thread, @JeffDowntown pointed out the substantial shuttle system. There are also all the MBTA buses. There are seven that go down...

Thanks so much for all that info! Please, seriously, try and shoehorn your datacenter knowledge into every thread in this forum. If people say it's off topic, I'll defend you. That's wild that this is the only carrier hotel in New England. Out of curiosity, do you know where else in the region...

Thanks for that link. That adds the further logic that "China does it," which, you're right, not especially compelling. That blog post does fill in a couple of numbers I was looking for, if anyone else is interested. I think this is all correct: For the HSR the report plans, there would be 10...

One kind of odd thing is their recommendation to plan to run 400m long trains, which requires extending platforms at most stations that would get HSR. The entirety of their reasoning is this: The plan already calls for sending much more frequent trains, which itself doubles or quadruples...

Yes and no, depends on the city. Lots of cities, especially midwest and rustbelt, lost tons of housing. A bunch of examples here, and probably the go-to example is Detroit. This just shows the downtown, but the destruction runs through pretty much the whole city. It's kind of hard to believe...

I've seen this article popping up more places, and I've been meaning to drop a line about how bad it is.... It's called "Why America Should Sprawl," but it spends surprisingly little effort even trying to make that case. Really, it's hard to find a coherent argument in there. It seems to...

I don't think this kind of reasoning works well for this proposed Inner Ring for a couple of reasons. That logic assumes a kind of idealized network that works less well in the real world, especially for Boston. It assumes that there's a good density of radial lines so people actually have the...

@Teban54 , it's funny, I was just thinking about a Kendall/Back Bay subway before you posted this. I was think of almost the exact route you drew here. You captured a bunch of my thinking, but I'll throw in a few more ideas here. (This is really more "God Mode Planning" than "Sh**tposting," but...

I think @Teban54 is right that this is a problem with Metro North controlling the track. Here's an interesting post on some of the problems on the line: bad timetabling practices, bad maintenance practices, massive time padding. The new signaling system might be good, but they don't help Acelas...

That's awesome! One thing that stands out to me is the Green Line branch out of North Station towards Charlestown and Chelsea. Has anyone (official or otherwise) sketched out how that would work? The junction at North Station seems hard because this is all under the Garden, the Hub on...

Centering transportation on Longwood/Back Bay makes a certain amount of sense. But putting a trunk there and Downtown on a branch always seemed fundamentally flawed. Downtown is by far the biggest destination, and so shouldn't be on a branch. In that Tripod model, too many people waiting for a...

The platform for Track 1 has long been the connection to the bus terminal, so blocking off that platform with fare gates poses a problem. I wonder if they're just closing off that route once the new escalators into the bus terminal expansion are done.

This looks really interesting! The "Tripod" plans always seemed to have some odd routing and reverse branching that made it hard to see where the clear benefits would be. This "Criss Cross" plan definitively fixes a lot of that. (But I'm still kind of mulling it over) There are a couple of...

The bus lane seems to have helped in the PM rush hour, too, when people do ride that stretch. The average hasn't changed much, at six seconds slower. But the worst times have gotten better, by 25 seconds. So the bus on those couple of block is more reliable. And again, that's what you get with...

OMG! Not just the buildings. Check out the text on the border. "BOSTON of MASSCHUSETTTSSSS", and some hallucinated runes.

This is almost too weird. What was the source for this? Do you know who it got sent to? Politicians absolutely do stuff this stupid, but this is almost too on-the-nose ridiculous, and something seems fishy. Reminds me of when Joe Kennedy was running for senate a few years ago, and attacked...

It looks like they'll keep and incorporate the decorative arch. That's good. The execution..... maybe fine.

I don't think that's the right way to consider it. If you look at any short stretch of bus lane, you'd find it only saves seconds. But string those together, and it's real time savings. It looks like in the AM rush hour, buses saved a full minute going between Dartmouth and Berkeley -- just two...

If I'm reading Quincy's codes right, they should have been required to provide 2 spots per unit, plus more for guest parking. So fortunately they're building a heck of a lot less than that. I kind of agree with you both, here. The city should absolutely liberalize their parking regs. Letting...

😂 I can be quick to point out your mistake only because I've done it so many times myself.