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My argument is that an elevated is inappropriate for Columbia Road. I think that the extension FROM Harvard that was done in my adult lifetime should serve as the model.

The point is I didn't doubt it was wide enough I asked why should Cambridge get a tunnel and Dorchester have to settle for an elevated, which is not nearly as good? Hasn't this area been historically underserved? Is that to continue when there is a clear example of what to do, that works, on...

The vision that I would have for Columbia Road is the extension of the Red Line past Harvard. There is about the same density in Dorchester and North Cambridge. The train was put in a tunnel for good reasons and it was a great success. I believe that a subway on Columbia road would be too

I have to respectfully disagree. I remember when the elevated trains came down in Boston; I was a young adult. The elevated over Washington Street and Main Street in Charlestown and both were a blight to those areas, and both areas improved radically when they were torn down. How would...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/10/31/boston-city-cultural-infrustructure-plan

Developments that have a uniqueness of contribution, location, and then size should have their own thread. I am not sure everyone is going to agree about that every time. I think that a small upscale hotel in the South End that fills in a gap tooth should have a thread, but a bigger hotel in...

Good. Nothing ruins an otherwise decent neighborhood like a vacant lot the size of Nebraska. I would love to see more of the same across the street

Then let them challenge. 150,000 daily commuters should not be able to circumvent Mass state law because they say so

Massachusetts can require a certain level of car insurance. Can Massachusetts require motorists to have a car inspected to drive it in the state?

I like it, it faces the park so it will be welcoming to tourists and it repairs a frayed edge of the old medieval city

273 Havre has the worst front door ever. It looks like a back door

This is a short video of the Celtics rally in 1986 that is worth watching because it shows a lot of Government Center at the time in a very flattering way edit: Or just skip to the last 20 seconds

In a perfect world expanded tolls would pay for their intended purpose. Won't they promise the world and then they will just take the toll money and use it for something else? For example, the cigarette tax was supposed to go to a robust anti-smoking campaign, because the children, now it goes...

That is Walter Baker Chocolate in Lower Mills along the Neponset Greenway. You are standing on the so-called "IB" or iron bridge that was a popular teenage hangout. There used to be a giant 8 story chocolate bean silo that the kids loved to climb too. There are tunnels that connect most...

It is not just a "practical" difference, it was two different things completely. One federal and the other local. But that is besides the point. Some people just want to tell you that you are wrong so they talk about Urban Renewal and they don't want to hear about anything else. Ironically, it...

I wasn't even defending the architecture, though I will if you would like. I was explaining why I thought City Hall was not a "failure." I am not so sure that the success that you see city-wide today would have happened at all without the "New Boston" plan. It is too bad that people equate it...

It is appropriate, they're local. Let's hope that both the soccer team and the student athletes get the maximum stadium for the minimum price Edit: Why does it say "Bimbo" on that shirt? Is that okay?

The Charlestown Y is planning a new home in the Austin Street Lofts development https://charlestownbridge.com/2025/10/10/ymca-trinity-financial-explore-development-of-future-y-location/

Actually, they did 100,000 recently for No Kings

I don't remember the 50s and 60s but I remember the 70s and the bicentennial. The promise of city hall was a space to attract people as tourists in Town from the neighborhoods with events, and then it was a starting point to Quincy Market , the Freedom Trail, and the Aquarium, In that way GC was...