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The old freight ROW through Charlestown probably works for this purpose. Here is the 3375 feet it takes to get to 135' at 4% grade. You could even cheat by running the rest of the line down that ROW but then you'd end up in Sullivan. This all said, if this was ever constructed, it would be one...

I was riding with my friend on Blue (he commutes on it) and noticed that the train announcements were 1 station off. I asked and he said it's normal. Anyone know about this?

Putting my hat in for a west station - grand junction - Tobin alignment with a transfer at Kendall, align somewhere in the inner belt where we can find space to get over to Tobin

Is there a reason a bridge can't be added to the dam?

Yes from what I can tell. I thought this area was some sort of protected wetland but I guess it’s just fallow.

Governmetn services center is on this list, not sure if that means it is going back out for proposals.

70 million?

In person this is kinda not bad but I can see the criticisms for sure. I think a fix would be to have a harvard style underpass to connect the library and the plaza without a 4 lane road

So I actually know the answer to this question. They were put in a dumpster. I know some guys on campus that found the dumpster and may have rescued a couple items but the art was too big to move and so it is in some landfill somewhere now.

I showed this to my young alumni friends and they don't like it. I think personally this is a great project just because it gets rid of that horrible lot and adds more space for students, which is huge. At some point, it is worth asking why these institutions which have few financial...

Poftak next?

Almost all the buildings in that photo of Inman are dense lowrise multifamily, one of the densest housing types we have in Boston. I agree it would be great they built more than one apartment building at CX. The problem is that they built labs and a park... and the labs might not be fully...

I like brown, but it is dumping more service to Lechmere, which is not dense and has almost no businesses. I almost wonder if it should jog north, but I don't know exactly where it would go. Maybe closer to Inman.

Kinda tells you how profitable development is that they can write off 30 million for community benefits.

Trains after they go to sleep. Photo credit to my friend @lupinephotos on Instagram.

A sightline isn't a material outcome. Houses for people to live in are part of reality. Let's focus on real things. People have this idea that a building occupying a place that was previously sky is psychically damaging. That makes no sense. Buildings for the most part just sit there. It's not a...

This left side of the map is pretty nonsensical. Probably the part most worth pushing against if density is going to move to Cambridge.

It's just the kind of thing that is an easy mental trap to fall into. It's what I call a coworker opinion. Like some guy comes over to your desk and is like, you hear they want to make buildings with one staircase! Those idiots! But really he hasn't thought about it for more than two seconds and...

And it has future transit access, just steps from track 61! /s

I don’t mind holding architects and planners accountable. It’s a welcome change and god knows how much we pay them to half ass it