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It would definitely be good to protect a substantial portion of the older downtown building stock. Between the idea of it becoming an historic district and continued efforts toward residential conversion, we can hopefully retain a lot of what makes downtown interesting and visually compelling.

Three ways to do it, only one destroys Bay Village. Besides that option, there is the option of destroying the section of Chinatown across the Pike from Bay Village. That's obviously also a non-starter, but someday, maybe we'll get some more air rights projects and a tower might end up...

In terms of engineering, project scope, and limited impact to traffic. Yes, the political and NIMBY issues you raise are certainly not easy. But my argument is that we shouldn't give any credence to them at all. Unfortunately, our politicians are not the kind of leaders who are willing to take...

Yes, I should have included salmoning and sidewalk riding among the less palatable options I listed. The point is that bike riders shouldn't have to pick among dangerous, legally questionable, overly hilly, or trip elongation routes, when there is a perfectly straightforward option that could...

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I wonder if there is room to place gates on the platform just before the stair case? That could also address the issue of people who use the emergency exits on Berkeley St. I don't know how common that is, but when I was a regular rider, I mostly entered and exited...

While true, I think the larger need for Charles Street bike lanes lies in the location that is by far the most logical route between Longfellow Bridge users and the Back Bay, South End, Theater District, Chinatown, etc. The existing alternatives add a significant amount of distance for riders...

Those exits have one way doors, so there is no way to enter through the Clarendon stairwells.

Yes, but the Mayor doesn't seem as interested in bike lanes as she once was. I think the departure of Jascha Franklin-Hodge is likely also a break in prior bike lane momentum. I'm not super confident that we'll see as much success on this issue during term 2.

My assumption is that if Chisolm is involved in these rumors at all, it's only to create some leverage with Delaware North to negotiate a better deal for the Celtics at the existing Garden. Nobody in their right mind would think shoehorning a basketball only venue into a less central and transit...

And the article even raises that track 61 nonsense as part of the appeal. Good grief, this is nothing more than idle and uniformed gossip.

And I've obviously not paid close attention to this project, because I didn't even realize it was on Ave Louis Pasteur until I saw that shot. I haven't really spent any time on that street since my youngest graduated from BLS a few years back, this is a substantial change.

It's also worth nothing that the Krafts recently spent $250 million on upgrades. Adding that to the original spend, factoring inflation for all, we are probably looking at an $850 million stadium in Foxboro.

Great analysis @samsongam, especially considering your point that it is essentially three facilities, only one of which is actually shared.

I wouldn't focus too much on the visual similarities. In addition to what @JeffDowntown mentions, these fairly substantial upgrades caught my attention:

17 trains at 8:00 AM today -- 7 new/10 old. I didn't realize there were enough new cars for 7 consists.

It's also worth considering that the 'T is spending on maintenance again, after years of deferring such costs. There are still active state of good repair efforts just to catch up, but yearly, routine maintenance is now something the MBTA does, which means a much larger expense budget.

Loving all these pictures of the embankment and Forest Hills, but we have wandered way off topic. Perhaps a mod can split out these posts, so we can get back to parcel P-3?

Yep, I find this discussion and especially the old pictures @mssrro has posted quite depressing.

I have similarly been stymied in my efforts to find pictures of this. Even pictures of the old Forest Hills station, seem to be taken from angles that avoid showing the main line rail embankment. Interestingly, there is at least one place where the embankment wall remains to this day...

This is by far the best of the options that they studied. When this open, it is going to be transformative for people in the Valley. I really love the way Los Angeles is so focused on building cross town routes. The eventual mesh pattern is going to make for a very sophisticated system when full...