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Correct, yes. Especially after the one curb cut that is planned to continue to exist. Equilibria's right on the history - I know why it existed, I just can't fathom why we're keeping it in place for decades into the future and letting it influence the design/layout going forward. (The stub of...

Slides 76-78 of Sept are are a little humorous. We're rebuilding the whole North Service Area, but we're going to keep that totally useless stub end of Neptune Rd forever. Is it really that impossible to get whatever land transfers need to happen to make it go away and stop complicating...

That infill seems like it could be pretty transformative for making that corridor feel more connected, hope it's not cut down. (And hope there's a bit of ground floor activation - more than the developments across the street have managed so far, although I recognize it looks like there may be a...

Well written, although I mostly come away from it with about what I'd guessed for causes: A bit of everything and as such - no simple or cheap solution that's going to just fix it, and a good chunk of it is probably intractable short of major grade crossing eliminations + sealing off more of the...

The secretary specifically advocated for border tolls. Which was from my perspective, a much more disastrous statement than even the press cycle suggested. That set of comments might well become an actual piece of evidence in a court case that damages the state's case for a future toll...

So, I've taken a look over the original documents for this pilot. Slide 19 says they were hoping for a 150-291 second improvement to transit trip times on the corridor. https://www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCenter/View/47920/Select-Board-Presentation-Bus-Prioirty-Lanes-Pilot_EEC_FINAL ------...

Trees and front yard configurations in general. It's easy to shove a sidewalk into your average modern subdivision even after the fact - with an average recent subdivision, front yards are mostly a sea of empty lawn. If you didn't build sidewalks up front, not such a big deal to add them later...

The train moves at what, 10mph or less? And they seem to use a flagger at busier times. Assuming they're fine with that model of operations, I don't see a whole lot in terms of safety that would be gained by the addition of gates? If there's something in the way I'm pretty sure the train's...

I'm not saying this instead of the gondola, just that it seems absurd to be building the gondola without also doing or having done much more basic pedestrian improvements. We're talking $500m for a gondola with a peak hour capacity of 5,000 people. So, $1m per 10 people of peak hour capacity...

Remarkable in a certain sense that if you have $500m to spend on a gondola, that you can't spend 1/100th of that or less on making the walk more tolerable and clearly marked/easy to follow.

I've always assumed a decent portion of them are probably either: - Getting picked up by friends/family already on Cape - Heading out to the Islands via ferry, especially since there is an advertised connection...

Agreed with Charlie, but also worth pointing out that the bridge itself arguably isn't even the biggest issue with that idea. You'd have a very difficult time linking either bridge into the existing rail infrastructure. There's nothing on the mainland side to link into at all. The one line...

If that's the case it does sound like a problem. That's not what's shown in the pics in previous posts, which is what I was going off of. The irrigation system will likely not be on in the winter, but still, I can agree you shouldn't be having large puddles result from it daily.

Pictures appear to all be from the evening, so likely just after they've received their watering cycle. I would expect it's not dripping out/wet there all day. Elevated planters also are more affected by heat and dry out faster, so they do potentially need more/more frequent watering than your...

Enforcement cameras are also impossible to implement when the vehicle in question doesn't have any kind of highly visible, standardized identifying marks. I do not see it as very likely that we are going to successfully mandate bicycle license plates and there is no visual identifier of an...

Out of curiosity, would that be the first operation like this in the US? I know of a few foreign locations where it's done but I've never heard of it here.

It's a good example that induced demand isn't quite infinite. It is overbuilt, but I'm not sure what you actually achieve for spending a bunch of money on doing that. A highway that doesn't have traffic jams on most of it is a highway where a bus moves at full speed without needing a dedicated...

I'm guessing just budgeting/cautious phasing. I'm not 100% sure I understand the A-B Connector photo (slide 54) in those previously linked images, but it seems to suggest they're provisioning for an eventual connection of the B piers with that new elevator bank shown as part of it. I can't...

I note that beyond the general niceness of faster schedules, that's IMO about the tipping point for being more attractive than the bus for travel time. BOS-SPG buses are generally scheduled at 1:30-2:30 today. Doesn't mean a lot without frequency increases, but IMO at a 2hr mark + decent OTP...

There's no way to make that work with the volume of demand. And the less nice removal option that was studied was going to pretty much result in 24/7 heavy traffic on Charlesgate E/W (+ Charlesgate E widening), still having a ramp right over the river on that end, and likely cutting Comm...