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Probably the same regs that made it hard for me to pencil out a development here. Parking, setbacks, height, FAR, etc

Reminder that the majority of what this building is replacing was a surface parking lot. 9/10 the only thing I wish is that they incorporated the Sully's sign. Though it wouldn't go with the brick facade, which I love, so maybe for the best. Sidebar, but I did a TOD class in grad school and...

Gotcha, in that case I was misunderstanding and disagree. Why should there be a higher level of penalty for the same behavior just based on hardware? Is there any example of motor vehicles being treated that way? Why are we leaving the opportunity open for discretion on whom to enforce? Just...

I agree that it's the right approach, which is why it's weird to me that they're making it the informal in-practice approach and not the formal on-the-books approach.

I've had friends who advocate in different spaces than transportation send the map to me to make fun of it, I think it's a huge gaff. The globe even did a follow up article today specifically on the AI map...

Happy grant news! Most, but not all of these, are bike centric. I chose to place this news here but understand if mods want to move. First, we have the AARP Community Challenge Grant, where MA was very well over-represented: MassTrails was also announced today, since I lack of a concise...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/metro/blue-hill-ave-center-bus-lane-redesign/ Tell me you've never ridden the bus without telling me you've never ridden the bus

lol. Lmao, even. EDIT: Also...what is with the weird Mattapan Line on that map? Not just it being brown, but the stations are all out of whack. Did they use AI to make that?

The rollout of "better buffers" has been so slow I was worried it was dead, but seeing a lot of anecdotes rolling in of cast-in-place concrete!

Totally makes sense! Not having followed the project I was reacting exclusively to the speed headline.

Well that's the kind of lesson I would want to be learned. That maybe said state law, just like many local ordinances we all regularly gripe about, is a net negative on outcomes. Outcomes are what we should be focused on.

Are we going to learn the lessons from this?

Another reason we need to really get into the weeds. The MTA was able to borrow against future congestion pricing revenue to make much needed capital improvements...given that we're in year two of using the millionaires tax for operations idk if we could do the same. But I don't have any sense...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/18/metro/income-tax-cut-ballot-question-sjc-decision/ This ballot measure would have been a disaster if passed, but I'm also not entirely comfortable with the idea that the AG summary can't just be amended. If an AG is opposed to a particular measure can they...

Well, exactly. That's why we shouldn't be debating it at this level anymore, we need specific plans to react to, not polling on broad concepts.

The People's Republic giveth. I know it's just a draft. I can't imagine this being implemented. https://share.google/yK4PmoZ355OifUhqu

There was a community meeting for this project last night and the developer was taken aback that the crowd was pushing for less on-site parking (either from an out-right reduction or leasing spaces in the massive underused lot across the street) and decoupling parking and housing prices. You...

Yeah this is the where I'm at. We should be at the point where we can at least study and debate specific proposals. At a high level congestion pricing has been shown successful enough in other places but it's an open question how/if it would work here. The discussion would be better informed by...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/17/metro/boston-congestion-pricing-suffolk-globe-poll/

It didn't even make it out of committee; Mahoney, Yuan, Riley, Ryan, McKee, and Jacobs all voting against. Imo the right move based on the plan presented.