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Transportation in urban areas is mostly a geometry problem. There aren't really any technological innovations that will affect the geometry of human beings or their cities. Maybe telecommuting can have some impact, but it hasn't yet and I don't know why it would anytime soon. I think the most...

Do we know what the expected headways are?

It’s 1/4 mile from the intersection of Lowell and Medford streets. It’s a stretch, but mostly because Magoun is so small to start with. I’m a half mile from Davis and have no problem saying I live in Davis Square. (Some day when Ball Square becomes recognizable to more than just Somerville and...

Not that anyone asked me, but I think the new mods have done little to improve the forum. You just like moving posts around which is more confusing than helpful. Delete trash posts and ban the people who had three deleted posts in some period of time (a month maybe). That’s moderating. Also I...

Tufts Medford is pretty close to Tufts Medical, which is how the latter appears on some maps.

In a world where we can reallocate that much automobile infrastructure to non-automobile use, we could run faster trains too. So i don’t think that’s much of a counterpoint. In the world we live, nobody is getting from downtown Springfield to downtown Boston in 80 minutes during daylight hours...

To go 90 miles in 80 minutes, you need to average 68 mph. That is faster than the Acela between New York and Boston (66 mph average with stops). 80 minutes is a pipe dream.

Bingo. I'll add the caveat that battery is both "price permitting" but also "sustainability permitting." It isn't crystal clear yet that batteries are going to scale well.

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This is exactly what Canada's carbon tax does (as I understand it). All revenue from the tax is returned to citizens. They all get an equal credit to their income taxes or I think they can opt to just get a check. As the carbon tax increases over time, the size of that rebate increases. I think...

Although it didn't happen in a John Hughes movie, the more likely concern is that one can disconnect the odometer in old cars. Usually that also disconnects the speedometer, but the kind of people who disconnect their odometer also don't really care about speeding.

I’ve lived here for 10 years and have never heard this usage of “Boston Proper”. Not even on AB.

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https://www.somervillezoning.com/ My primary complaint is that Davis Square got knocked down to 4 stories instead of mostly 6. It is just going to stay 1 story for another generation, while the rest of Somerville booms. Also the Star Market on Beacon is zoned for "Fabrication" even though...

Ball Square, not Teele

That is a shame. I shop at the one in Davis all the time. It is not a great grocery store, but it gets you through the typical weekday meal. That is exactly what it is there for. I was hoping to see this format expand. Related, the new "Brothers" market in Kendall is about the same size as a...

I won't miss that bar, but I did like the building.

BRIEF TANGENT - I'm not saying Mass Ave doesn't need rapid transit, but it can't/shouldn't be a branch of the red line. That would be a "reverse branch" such that the line splits in the CBD. That's bad transit. Call me a transit optimist, but I think a bus lane on Mass Ave is appropriate, will...

I think finding a scheme for making the bus (broadly) free is a good idea and I think this notion is a good mitigation for the concerns millerm outlined. Those certain few routes that would get pounded even harder if the bus were free should get upgraded to some sort of higher service status and...