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Tangential, but does anyone know if a map or list exists of the CR stations that indicates platform length as well as which ones are full-high, mini-high, or low platform?

"being next to a rail" is underselling it It's wedged between clapped-out industrial, an intermodal yard, rail, and an 8-lane highway.

You know, this paint job thing is really starting to piss me off. First, it was the CRRC orange + red line cars: acceptable, but not excitingly modern. Then the green line type 10s: obviously dated and far from something you could call beautiful. And now this. WTF are these stripes. I know...

Why are modern developers allergic to corner trim?

What a failure of the MBTA communities act. 432 units of complete, unabashed car-centric living.

I'm surprised they are planning to demolish the existing student housing but keep the instructional buildings. The dorms are newer construction (~1990) than the old catholic school buildings. And the student housing is suite-style that lends itself well to traditional apartment conversions: I

How were they able to justify this project? $5.7B for 40,000 daily riders seems insane

RE: negative externalities of long-term vacancies, would a vacancy tax not also be an effective mechanism to discourage vacancies/encourage conversion?

Why does this need tax breaks then? If it truly was vacant, poor office space that would not serve office tenants, but would work well as residential if converted, the building owners would already have an incentive to convert. Subsidizing it admits that it doesn't actually make sense to...

If vacancies stay high, office leases would just get cheaper and attract more tenants from the suburbs, no? Low-density suburban office park vacancies could be redeveloped into medium-density housing, improving land use efficiency. As opposed to office-to-resi conversion, which would keep...

I never really got the obsession with office-to-residential conversions. I was always under the impression that dense, centralized clusters of office buildings like downtown Boston are one of the best ways to boost transit ridership by making a larger percentage of commutes viable on transit...

Is there a plan to eventually extend the curbs out to where the flex posts are? Maybe they'd add curb cuts and a crosswalk for access then

I don't know if it's even isolated to the Western world, or if it's a problem in the way you describe. I was reading this study that had an interesting conclusion: Now, I haven't dug into the methodology to see if it's really a robust analysis, but it does point to a curious idea that people...

I am continually amazed that projects like that pencil out in New Rochelle but not in Boston. Maybe it has something to do with IZ reqs that are 10% of units @ 80% AMI instead of 20% of units @ 60-70% AMI...

Single-family residential? Seriously?

Or a strategically located bike rental shop!

I'm totally with you that it looks like a net positive! It just feels performative because there is SO much more that could be done for VMT reduction... We're not even doing pilot studies on VMT-based taxes like a lot of other states.

My reading of this was that it is focused on transportation policy/planning, not land use or tax policy, where a huge amount of the possible VMT reduction is hiding.

This legislature needs to get its head out of its ass. We don't need a council to figure out what to do. The studies have already been done! https://www.mapc.org/resource-library/vehicle-miles-traveled-emissions/ The answer is 1) TOD and 2) internalizing the cost of driving on drivers. Pretty...

Are you aware of some more recent reporting that I'm not? I was under the impression it was moving forward subject to a May funding deadline. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/04/city-of-boston-restarts-rutherford-avenue-design-as-funding-deadline-looms