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If the Red Line situation got dire enough with more and more forced retirements of the old cars, could/would they ever use Orange Line sets to temporarily supplement the Red Line?

Hopefully it'll include ground floor retail. There's bunch of businesses there currently including Ebi Sushi and Urban Axes. Would be a shame if it turns into a lobby, a parking garage entrance, and a bank.

Seems like the snow mountain at Gilman Sq has busted through fence towards the CR tracks. One of the collapsed fenceposts is within a foot or two of the tracks.

The title says that the "Bikeway Project ... Reduced Crashes". The bikeway project, as many bike infra projects famously do, involved removing a lane. It's fair to say that the project reduced crashes IMO.

Sure, most human drivers, but all Waymo drivers. The difference between "95% chance you won't endanger my life" and "100% chance you won't endanger my life" is stark when you interact with hundreds of cars per ride. (anyway, 50%+ of human drivers seem to go over the speed limit when there is...

Not an SF resident, so take it with a grain of salt, but last time I visited I rode the city bikes all over and loved the Waymos. They acted predictably, drove slowly, stayed out of bike lanes, gave me plenty of space when passing, and never rolled down their windows and screamed threats at when...

Are there any big cities that do a particularly good job with sidewalk snow removal? If so, I'm curious who's responsible for clearance. On one hand: sure, maybe it'd be better to do coordinated snow removal on a municipal scale. On the other hand: homeowners and landlords are currently legally...

I think that a merit of the old system where you had to go wait outside city hall is that it penalized people not just in money but in time. $50 hurts the poor more than the wealthy, but 50 minutes hurts us all the same. Not to say that we should reinstate an antiquated inefficient system...

^ These help, but they're not THE secret. ^ This is the secret. The Financial District feels gross because nobody lives there. It's hollow and eerie outside of M-Th 9-5. If it had regular residents milling around all the time, then the shops would be more active, the place would feel brighter...

Why should your imagination of other's preferences be mandated as law? If someone wants a big lot, they will always still be able to pay the market rate for it.

Going by the MAPC official definition of Inner Core (orange in the map below), most of the jobs are there, are they not?

It's anecdotal, but as long as we're doing vibes anyway, I have a close friend working in Cambridge as a recent PhD grad who would have liked to live in ~Davis, but very happily settled for a less expensive new-build apartment in Maynard center, which is beautiful and walkable and is a short...

I mean, duh? I also want to have my cake and eat it too.

The entire map is screwed up. Neither Norwich or NL are that close to NH.

I think it's a pretty small subset of tourists that would go to an American building literally just to see it. They go because there's stuff to do. You can go to the tops of the Empire State building and the Pru, and it's pretty cool, and yes tourists do this. There's also a mall and a...

Monthly passholders. Also, people who don't have access to banking or credit.

The utility of cross-streets is diminished by the geometry of the abutting block of long rowhouses: You could theoretically have a mid-block cross street from Huntington to Alley 404 but I don't think that does much for pedestrian experience. My hunch is that it's better to use the space for...

Anyone know why the parcels are divided by a curved gap? Is that a ROW that they want/need to preserve?

Yeah, I had raised that idea and there was some interesting discussion that followed.

Yes. The warm brick red and the smokestacks are out of place a charmingly unique way. It really adds to the view from 93N in my opinion.