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I think there might need to be a technical/regulatory solution to the gig app traffic problem, but that’s another thread.

That will be a non-starter for the stretch between Crosby’s Corner and the rotary. It has been litigated and relitigated multiple times. The superhighway plan of the 60s went down in flames when folks realized how much of the battle road would get impacted. The Walden Woods Project catalyzed...

I suspect this project will lead to pressure to close the various intersections between the rotary and the 111 exit. At the very least, the Taylor Rd light might get replaced with a bridge over the local street. It’s been a magnet for collisions for decades. Local traffic would shift to the...

32 Webster is up for ZBA approval with a variant on the Bold and Sharp design.

The article also includes an image of work on the Baker Ave/Elm St intersection. Question: what about the induced demand, if the natural bottleneck of the rotary is removed? Is MassDOT contemplating that?

The Church Court Condominiums on Beacon St are the gold standard of church reuse in Boston.

I’ll allow Hoodsie Way, but all the others are deep cuts.

Supertest St… Someone needs to get fired for proposing or retaining that name.

The juxtaposition of a failed vision of urban renewal and the ongoing attempt to correct that.

There’s a lingering distaste for handing MA feddy bucks after the Big Dig.

They are staging components for the second tower crane. Also, the steel core is giving off strong panic room vibes.

The neo-mansard is becoming a design cliche for hiding the third floor. At least this one is pretty well done.

Possibly due to weight restrictions at the maximum boom reach.

Crunchings and munchings for poor Gurgi

Expansion space for Spaulding Hospital?

Is that a refrigerator in the bottom left?

The hardscaping is straight out of the Porter Square “don’t let anyone linger” school of hostile design. Is there something in the soil that makes it difficult for trees to grow?

I understand it wouldn’t make sense without the infrastructure side being guaranteed. I was figuring it would be part of a plan that involved wiring the whole network. Run them in push-pull mode on the lines that haven’t completed electrification yet. Otherwise, how do you get from here to...

Is there a middle ground of buying EMUs but pulling them with diesels until the wires are up, or is that just nuts?

A view of the parking garage from the bike path connector, showing the driveway from the on ramp. The hi-rail access tunnel would emerge on the right, behind the Jersey barriers.