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Can't they move in a day's worth of equipment and material in the middle of the night and move everything to track north of Harvard?

Could you explain this? I don't have a good sense of the logistics of this work, or why that truck pad would make such a big difference here. Also, I've seen construction crews on the tracks on the Longfellow Bridge this week, so it seems like they did have work to do along the whole length of...

I know politicians often have higher ambitions. I don't know much about Wu personally, but I wouldn't doubt she has that ambition, too. For those politicians, there are some (fairly) innocuous things they can do to start angling for their next job: get on tv more; start making speeches on topics...

I don't think that's what she's doing. She just seems so committed to process, dialog, and caution that she's too slow to actually get things done. But if that is what she's doing, that would mean she's stalling street safety projects, literal life-and-death projects, because of her personal...

So much bike news the past couple of weeks, I'm surprised people aren't talking about here. A bunch of city deliberation over bike lanes has been FOIA'd. It looks like it was a mess internally, not always clear who was in charge, and some people using that mess to pull out flexposts and stall...

Oooh, that's why you were using that map. An annoyingly easy mistake to make. On The Map is such a great tool, but some of wording in those toolboxes is ambiguous and always seems to do the opposite of how I interpret them. I see where you're getting those numbers, but I think that's a little...

@Riverside There are some neat ideas in there. Especially consolidating everything onto the Lowell line so there's better ROI on investments there. The downside there is then you have to do 34 miles of significant track upgrades from Lowell to Fitchburg on reeealy crummy, ~10mph freight...

Which part of the Red Line isn't handicapped accessible?

Yes, @stick n move 's drawing for the megaproject is inaccurate. It should have also included lines along Hull, Winthrop, and probably Revere, at least on the Atlantic sides. But I think their point is pretty clear. One ~3-mile megaproject dyke from Hull to Deer Island could be built instead of...

Just practically, I wonder if anyone has studied how much housing this is likely to produce? I doubt it'll help much. I'd guess churches mostly use the land they own, and most are probably focused on things other than building housing. Some will want to build, and every bit of new housing helps...

Yeah, this is what I keep thinking. For all the nostalgia for the grass, I really don't remember people using it much. If I ever sat down in that grass, I don't remember it. I poked through Street View and they seemed to favor taking pictures on sunny, busy days, but I couldn't find more than...

This is great! Write your representatives, everyone. I'm not sure I want to draw too much attention to this, but... There is also the the minimum lot size proposal on the ballot this year, which says municipalities can't set minimum lot sizes greater than 5000 square feet. That would be ~8 lots...

omg thank you

Can someone fix the typo in the title of this thread? It's driving me nuts

lol. Somewhere on this site I gave the Wada Hoppah guy the benefit of the doubt and said his plan was probably just dumb, not a fraud. I'm all set to start taking that back....

They were planning to carry 20,000 people per game, for seven games. So they were running trains ~78% full? Do I have those number right? I thought it was possible that $80 for a train ticket might have been too high and the trains would run mostly empty. But that's not bad.

Yeah, but why? Why make Lowell Line modernization a prerequisite for a New Hampshire expansion? Why not do both at the same time? Or pursue both and see which can get some political momentum behind it first? Maybe you can answer that, and I'd be glad to hear. But I'm mostly asking rhetorically...

Wow, that pretty perfectly answers all my questions I meant to look up later. Thanks! I think you're right. Moving into the city is top priority, followed by playing in an arena close to capacity. Those attendance numbers for the New York Sirens are kind of bad, and seem about right. That's got...

The Boston Fleet in the PWHL has played their first few seasons at the Tsongas Center in Lowell. For this coming season they'll play at Agganis at BU. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/07/sports/pwhl-boston-fleet-agganis-arena/ This is great! The games are a lot of fun, but it's been hard to...