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A little off-topic, but using that constraint as a starting point, I doodled something I'd love to see: Before: After: Eliminate Storrow between Kenmore and the Public Garden. Shrink Storrow to the East. Reclaim Esplanade parkland, reserve potential Blue Line to Kenmore ROW, implement...

I completely agree that this is a possible outcome. Hopefully not, however, considering that their strategy paper states the following: While that last point is of course some tier-one marketing speak, they are at least aware of the desire for express service.

FWIW, F-Line's direct link to http://therealcape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vineyard-bridge.jpg didn't embed here for me either, so here's re-upload:

Yes - TFRI has a dedicated cross-honoring fares planning document that cites a number of peer system examples.

I assume someone here knows - what are current Amtrak (specifically Northeast Regional) service levels relative to pre-pandemic? I recently reached out to RIDOT to ask how this part of the Rhode Island Transit Master Plan was going: And I got the following reply:

From Tufts Medical (looking through what should have been the Parcel P-12 tower site):

While your point about the lower floors is still fair, I've seen the top of this building from some pretty surprising angles and think the views are going to be pretty amazing. I was impressed by how much was visible from Memorial Drive over by MIT, and this shot is from Stuart and Berkeley...

I still maintain that a single new excavated stop at/around the Brown Science Library, plus stops right at either tunnel portal, would probably be workable for LRT/BRT to serve College Hill appropriately, especially given the proximity to bus "feeders" coming through the nearby trolley tunnel...

I've had similar musings about transit re-use. The most parsimonious rail connection would indeed be an elevated structure above Memorial Blvd (makes sense, as that's what it was designed for), and you could conceivably build a modern and attractive minimal viaduct that eventually descends under...

Are you talking about the Green Line tunnel ventilation stack?

For those out of the loop since the Chinatown library branch was planned as part of the Parcel P-12 development on Tremont St.: that project was contingent on the off-site affordable housing funds from Winthrop Center. The COVID-related redesign of that building, which reduced a 2nd residential...

The North tower is residential - it's likely that they couldn't find people who'd want an apartment or hotel room sandwiched at grade on either side by I-90 West and the Newbury onramp. However, you would think it'd be a good location for expanded BOH like laundry or electrical, but perhaps...

I wouldn't exactly call the former train arrival point glamorous... especially with the deteriorating condition of the platforms/overhangs and bad patch-jobs. Track 1 had that plywood scaffolding for years! If you view the platform and new archway area as a prolonged exit of the train, and then...

Ehh, it's not a scenic walk and is stretching the definition of "adjacent", but from the corner of S. Station Connector & Albany to the corner of Herald & Albany is about 1100' straight down the sidewalk on Albany... about the distance from the S. Station Bus entrance down Beach St. to the...

ProJo: Stall tactics and abuse of power alleged as Apex saga drags on in court

Presumably a construction vehicle for this project didn't quite make the 3-point-turn:

I have to say, while I've been more open to this kind of avant garde project than many people in the area, I'm disappointed at the exact site this is going ahead on. I had initially thought this was going to be at 200 Dyer, but it's planned to be directly across from 225 Dyer - on what is...

Alternate pitch: a statue of the two of them dressed as in this photograph, near this same location (or on the Common if you need more space for plaques). Those arms could be anyone's.

Art, like architecture, can absolutely be phenomenal or terrible due to being acontextual to its surroundings. Maybe the Chicago Bean is one example of the former. I may be a philistine, but this is one of the latter cases to me. A magnificent larger-than-life statue of Dr. King himself standing...

This wasn't the Mike's point, but to be fair, check out some other downtown playgrounds (Elliot Norton Park, for instance). Even before COVID, they were largely occupied with encampments that scared off parents & kids, and BOS:311 indicates this is a broader problem throughout the neighborhoods...