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I love that building.

If the bumps are uncomfortable enough for car passengers that they'll dissuade rideshare drivers from using bike lanes for dropoff/pickup, then that's huge. It takes space away from drivers, and that in itself is valuable. Agreed that some lanes are worse than nothing. The gutter lanes on Comm...

I don't know why they haven't advertised it anywhere except their IG story, but there's a Critical Mass ride tonight, leaving from Copley at 6pm!

Is it that hard to understand? It's distinctive and the LED animations are really cool. People all over New England grow up seeing it in the background of Sox games, and then when they go to Fenway for the first time, it's like WOW we're actually here. It's a placemaker. The fact that it's an...

Such a good post followed up with such doomey nonsense. If Harris had won, we very well may have seen an influx of federal transit funding rather than a reduction. And if Canada ever gets a hard-right PM, they go be going in the same direction we are now. Nothing bad is necessarily permanent and...

Just speculating, but I wonder if station-sequence is used a fallback behavior. e.g., "We passed a transponder but could not read its signal, so we will assume it is our last known position + 1." You can imagine, then, how a semi-operational reader on a train would have an off-by-N problem if...

GLX fare machines are covered but definitely outdoors.

What why why why Am I the only person who wants to get to the train station early and have something to eat while I wait? Last time I waited 20 minutes in line for the only place that was open, McDonalds. I struggle to believe there's no demand for food.

Nice. There's also a missing left turn arrow at Broadway / Alewife Brook Parkway. Took me a while to trust that the left was actually protected. Always struck me as a funny DCRism.

I want to highlight a really interesting aspect of this, which affects me personally. In exchange for allowing the upzoning, the USNC successfully negotiated for Rafi to include 100,000 sq ft of arts and creative space, including studios and dedicated rehearsal spaces (sorely needed in Greater...

Under BNRD: The 101 is getting extended from Medford-Sullivan into Meford-Kendall via CC. The 7 is getting extended from Downtown-Southie into Sullivan-Southie. Both routes are intended to be frequent (every 15min or better). The bus lanes on Rutherford would help make that happen...

Based on the way you've drawn it, is there a stop at the terminals in addition to the BL Airport stop?

No, you're not being too critical. The rotary in front of Union Station sucks, and the walk to DCU is lifeless. Kelley Square and downtown have seriously improved since I moved away in 2018, but the corridor you walked is still gray and automobile-oriented.

Two things: There's car access, and there's bike/ped access. Mid-century suburbs limited both. These affluent grid neighborhoods (like east somerville) are limiting car access without stopping peds or bikes from getting through. If you limit car thru-access without providing alternatives to...

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BS. A 250sqft unit in beacon hill is currently going for $2000/mo. Now imagine a place "half as desirable" as Beacon Hill. Allston, maybe? A $1000/mo tiny studio in Allston would be life changing for some people.

An evidence-free assertion! Americans, just like anyone else, will tolerate all sorts of discomfort, as long as that discomfort is made up for in other ways. Boston's housing market is hot enough that basically anything can be rented at the right price. I assure you there would be pleeeenty of...

@Blackbird I think you're fundamentally proposing two different things here and it's complicating the debate. Are we replacing forests in 495 with dense small-lot street grids, or with more suburban-oriented huge lots on dead-end roads? I could be sold on the merit of the former: these new...

Finally, some good news. I frickin love BlueBikes.

This is where you lose me. Other than lowering housing costs, everything else about this makes life worse in the town. More cars, more need for parking lots and big box stores, less green, fewer preserved wildlife corridors, fewer trees drinking up CO2. Why raze forests to build SFHs when we...