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Has anyone timed out the demolition rate on the old Volpe? Is it going to be all done by the end of 2026?

Lots of busy ride share areas have designated pick-up/drop zones -- reasonably close to the destination so it makes sense. And you know where it is when you book so you plan accordingly. Waymo's in SF are dynamic. So you set up a pickup and before the taxi arrives, it decides it is only...

Just want to comment I have had the drop (and pick up) outside the crowded zone happen a number of times in San Francisco. Sometimes it is not bad. Sometimes it is super annoying as in dropping you with a hefty walk up hill in the rain; or making it really hard to find your ride when it won't...

Land owners are fined, they simply do not pay the fines. And many landowners do the minimal possible to comply, leaving a barely passable mess with no recourse. One place where the City really stepped up is clearing the sidewalks on the Turnpike bridges between Back Bay, Bay Village, Chinatown...

Not difficult from an engineering perspective. But more expensive than most American cities are willing to implement. Montreal has a fleet of over 2,500 snow removal vehicles, over 3,000 snow removal employees, and they move about 300,000 truckloads of snow to the 29 snow dumping sites...

Snow melting equipment doesn't really address the system limiting step in the cleanup process post major storm. We have been able to use natural melting over extended time at remote locations pretty effectively once the snow is removed. The limiting step is picking up the snow, for either...

A bit ambivalent on the relaxing of permitting standards. But if we could ever treat nuclear plants like products (SMR) rather than custom built albatrosses, it should be easier to replicate and scale capacity safely.

Somerset (2020) and Pilgrim (2019) were both losses of about 680 MW capacity each. If we are looking for more base load capacity, we should really be back investing in nuclear, like NY State, not coal.

Yes, there are multiple examples of transit funding illegally withheld being restored via lawsuit. Over $1 B in funding being withheld due to non-cooperation with ICE was restored in January 2026, for example.

I am certain all of the operating budgets for transit agencies have line items that can be pointed to as repair and maintenance. If the parking garage is replacing former capacity that has been lost due to maintenance neglect, it could, broadly, be construed as repair and maintenance. If it is...

And Mosquito Breeding Center (in a few months).

It just seems odd to me that you can have a building that is an imminent threat for structural failure, but it stand up to the demolition activity without just collapsing?

As a society, we have largely lost the narrative on the historical parkway system. Car commuters rule. But this is still worthwhile to remind people.

But the concept of reducing capacity to nudge drivers to other routes or other modes assumes that those other routes or modes are actually viable. Someone looking into their crystal ball about the future demand potential for Mem Drive is going to get a pretty murky picture of alternate routes...

You mean just like the current 1987 Back Bay Station with the same arch? 🙃

I suspected that was the case. Just information that your slot "might be on the chopping block" is not actionable, other than to create concern.

So I received a truly strange email about a future schedule change or cancellation on Acela in March. Except the email had no real information. It read like a horoscope: There is a train trip in your future. This train trip will be disrupted. The disruption may be severe, or perhaps not...

Likely concrete contaminated with chloride from ocean sand and other high-salt aggregate. Cement standards require low chloride (low salt) sand, because chloride corrodes steel rebar. Contractors are known to cut corners using cheap ocean-derived sand, aggregate, rather than more expensive...

Time Out Group closed their food hall in Chicago at the same time, same rationale. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/time-out-market-boston-chicago-closed-b2901606.html

Makes sense. Particularly given the failure rate of the OG trainsets.