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There are so many 4 mile subways that you could build here that would be total game changers.

With enemies like these, who needs friends?

Looks like neighbors have applied for a landmark designation on the existing building which is ca. ~1920. It's going before the commission in a couple weeks

I think that is correct at least in terms of their stated goals, that they do want to move the most people not necessarily cars-only, and view decreasing capacity or keeping capacity the same as a non-starter. However: We generally are allowed as a society to ask for and receive things that are...

https://ariofsevit.com/apb/2026/01/03/bu-bridge-an-edge-case-where-a-bike-ped-bridge-makes-sense/ That is more or less what Ari Ofsevit was proposing but with the use of an at grade intersection. Blue in this case refers to the proposed bike overpass What I don't get is why the community has...

Another aspect is that this neigbhorhood council is not actually recognized by the city but will be soon after these elections. Somerville city law provides for official recognition of these councils and, if they are recognized, requires developers to negotiate directly with them.

Since this is a ground up project, if there is a path on the bridge, it could easily be separated by use of physical barriers similar to that which was used on the north washington street bridge

Part of the confusion is the multiple separate processes. 1) 40B application (what the CD article is referring to) got kicked back this week saying they need to revise based on community feedback 2) Somerville has technically not reviewed the project yet, but is deferring to the DSNC for...

I have obtained another email from the project team to share. Summary: - Right turn from BUB to Memorial Drive is now signalized like it is now - Presenting an option for one lane in each direction on the overpass - They are claiming to be reviewing the concept here which imo has the very...

And an opinion piece which went out around the same time: https://csindie.com/call-it-improvements-call-it-planning-delaying-a-development-is-a-way-to-make-it-not-happen/

Another setback for this project: https://www.cambridgeday.com/2026/04/26/copper-mill-back-to-drawing-board-after-state-presses-pause-on-project/

IDK, I think it might be time for transit people to play dirty. I personally don't care if Streetsblog lies about this stuff if it puts pressure on the right people. MassDOT plays with our lives every day, why give them an inch?

On the Reid Overpass: https://csindie.com/letter-to-a-traffic-engineer/

I assume there is probably some way to manually update the cost of a ticket, they don't have to time it perfectly.

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2026/04/02/harvard-square-wall/ The wall is cool, but how would shoring it up fix the rat problem? It should probably just be removed.

I mean, they should have used dynamic pricing, right? Like Amtrak. First 20% of tickets are $25, then the next are $50, $80, etc...

In theory yes 47 is frequent, but I try to make this combined route virtually every week and it it works out maybe once a month. That area is subject to notorious delays (it goes thru the BU Bridge area) and the 83 is an every 45 min route off-peak.

Is there a reason the new 85 doesn’t run on nights or weekends? Whats the MBTA’s resistance to making this specific route run like any other bus? It’s close to being useful. Edit: to explain, the current way to get from Somerville to the BU area is to take the 83 to the 47, which are infrequent...

If you are wondering why mainstream democrats are talking the way leftists did in 2016 about immigration enforcement, you can thank the President.

I agree, and the best part about the technology is it *still has a battery* which means that it should be acceptable to our cognoscenti but alas