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Interesting idea, and I decided I would take a look. Here are the walking distances in miles per Google, with straight-line distance in parenthesis: Walpole: 4.4 (3.5) Sharon: 6.5 (4.5) Mansfield: 6.7 (4.8) Walpole seems the most promising in terms of distance, but all three suffer from...

I think we can assume some modelling of who would be going to the games and where they might stay if from out of town likely suggested that Providence was not going to be a significant source of transit trips to the stadium. Unlike a Pats game or concert that would draw heavily from Providence...

In my opinion, it isn't close to being complete. Completion means the section labeled as "future shared use path" on slide 9 has been built and I can ride between Fenway and anywhere on the Emerald Necklace without needing to cross Park Drive at grade.

Ferry service can be highly useful when it provides a direct route between two points that otherwise do not have one. But Watertown to downtown via the express buses is more direct than any river route, and can also average a much higher speed. This is patently ridiculous and I will continue to...

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My main source is that I know where the tunnel goes from when it was still open back in the 80s. I have seen it mentioned from time to time in articles about this project, but I don't recall specifically where. [edit] You can kind of see how it's configured in this schematic from the wikipedia...

That's not quite correct. The elevator on the Lyric side goes to a long closed pedestrian tunnel that is at the mezzanine level. Until there is an elevator from the mezzanine to the platform level, the station is not accessible, regardless of the new and currently unused elevator.

Yeah, I'm kind or reluctantly agreeing with this position. It's that whole perfect being the enemy of the good thing. The single most important transformation for Blue Hill Ave. would be bus lanes. If we can get that done, we will have made a hugely positive impact for thousands of people. I...

Long story short -- forces not in any way connected to this development prevent the option of opening it on the station side of the tunnel.

We are? That's news to this bike advocate, and I can tell you with certainty it's not the position of the Boston Cyclist Union.

And that might be the second least relevant thing. Architecture can be good or bad, regardless of construction technique. There is nothing inherent to a 5 over 1 that implies bad architecture. And yes, this is an architecture discussion board, but we also discuss more general urbanist issues. 5...

And after saying this, it didn't work for about an hour....

I'm a Verizon FIOS customer, and have also not had any issues.

People are willing to swallow a shutdown of a rail line to expedite a faster project, but I don't think people are going to accept the idea of shutting down an entire artery. Huntington Ave. is a major route for car based trips, that's the thing that can't be closed, unfortunately.

Congratulations, this might just be the least relevant thing ever posted at ArchBoston. :rolleyes:

We can credit the facadectomy for a large component of the aesthetics.

Is it just me, or is this thread incorrectly titled? I was thoroughly confused looking for this on Harrison, and only figured out where it was when I noticed a street sign in one of the pictures.

An unintentional omission, but I draw the line after that. Braintree and Newton are the exceptions to my subway service rule.

The thing is, there is no obvious successor office for a Boston mayor. It's a more powerful executive position than governor, despite the Commonwealth having a much larger budget. Healy has far less control over how it is wielded than Wu has regarding Boston. If the personal goal is wielding...

Maybe we already knew this, but one thing that stands out to me is a statement about battery electric locomotives for Fairmont, rather than BEMU procurement. Is that just a mistake on the slide, or did they just downgrade that proposal? I'm thinking typo, since a subsequent slide does specify a...