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No, I get that this woman is totally FOS and nuts, but I didn’t know this development was gonna replace Central Cleaners. They’re a great old school business that has been my family’s go to place for my whole life. They have a tailor working there who’s looked like he’s about 90 and looked that...

Wait wtf? This is gonna get rid of Central Cleaners!?

Literally was about to post the same thing. People need to get rid of shit.

G Great write up, thanks, appreciate the food recs. I used to routinely do a bike on the train to the North Shore and maybe will have to resurrect this tradition...

Yes, and Europe has a completely different style of government. Which is exactly why these movements in the United States are fucking asinine. Fix our government first and then, and only then, can you implement downstream social safety policies like free trains. Policy won’t fix this issue.

I really dont get why or how progressive politics went from a focused emphasis on redistributive economics and social safety to a combination of cultural issues and absurd demands for "free everything for everyone". There is nothing wrong with charging fares for transit. It's idiotic to make it...

They redid Hyde Park Ave not that many years ago (but Boston being what it is, the city still has managed to block random turns with gross Jersey barriers that have sat there for years). I really dont know what the solution is to the next re-design... either parking needs to go or a lane needs...

i thought i wasnt gonna like this one's facade but it looks really good, esp the glass which looked like it might be too bright or cheap-looking in the renders. The sloping elements remind me of William James Hall and give it a nice stately form.

Does anyone know who owns the giant shopping center by Jackson Square and if this site has ever been discussed for redevelopment? It’s such an enormous piece of real estate and in a much better location than any of the stuff that’s been built on Amory… even just developing the plaza right on...

Im glad you talked to someone who drove an ambulance once, but you can cool your attitude, bro. I’m not opposing bus lanes. But it’s asinine to make the argument you’re making, which is just a flat denial that poorly planned traffic decisions that cause backups have zero downstream effects on...

This is going round in circles but if the two block bus lane (eg, in Chinatown) causes massive traffic backups (eg, such that Essex and Boylston and other nearby roads are completely gridlocked), the ambulance is going nowhere, period, because the ambulance isn’t even gonna reach that little bus...

The lack of knowledge of using that Walnut Street extension (or whatever it is, it’s probably the original beginning of the street) around the fire station has been a longstanding issue. This is a little tangential for this thread, but I’m thinking about the fact that at least in my...

What you say is true in an ideal world, but again, the uncritical acceptance of anything healthcare institutions do, which includes, prominently, expansion projects, is what I find concerning on here. Simply because a hospital treats patients does not mean that everything that hospital does is...

Re your first sentence— that may be so, but Boston never has continuous bus lanes. The issue I was raising was if some random 3 block segment of bus lane causes massive traffic backup everywhere around it. That does not help emergency vehicle times, it hurts them. But both your sentences...

Reading thru all your posts. I do not agree that simply accepting the "way things are" and "it is what it is" with respect to the utter hypercapitalistic shittification of sports teams into the same vapid, commodified hospitality-entertainment-media reality show that's infected our whole...

This forum in general tends to be way too forgiving with hospitals. This building sucks, it's a turd, it's unimaginative, and it says everything about the parent organization this healthcare monster has become. MGB is a cold, unfeeling, corporate monster that is utterly laughably a "non...

Why did the school sell this building?

I asked that question specifically because I wanted to know what Wu’s angle was, if any, with the change. If the traffic was clearly worse due to the bus lane, it would suggest she is trying to placate a specific neighborhood, Charlestown, which historically has not been known for enlightened or...

There are intelligent arguments to be made about whether or not we need the highway of a certain width here. But it just drives me up the wall here these stupid people when they say stuff about “highway expansion next to a commuter rail stop”. That one little statement reveals so much ignorance...

So I would really like some input from some neutral parties here. How bad was the traffic because of this bus lane (and obviously I’m asking about rushhour)? I’m not looking to hear from anyone who’s going to show me traffic counter numbers or who just doesn’t think that any of the bus lane and...