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Crazy people: We shouldn't build anything new, ever. We should have left this decrepit manor rot in place. Or spent millions to turn it into a museum. Other crazy people: We shouldn't feel the need to preserve anything, ever. Absolutely nothing was lost here. Aesthetics don't matter. Huzzah for...

The confusion around this is why housing advocates need to stop saying "ban single family zoning" and start saying "legalize multifamily housing" STAT.

Does it bother anyone else that these headlines are always Train crashes into car rather than Car is hit by train after disobeying signal or even just a value-neutral Car and train collide ? Or am I reading into this too much?

tldr, she is not against the law, but she believes that the state was obligated to provide implementation funding starting in 2021 and failed to do so. Regardless of whether she is right (she probably is, in a technical sense), I bet that the "unfunded mandate" clause will be taken out of...

My low-information speculation is that Healy sees zoning reform to be publicly palatable, but sees a radical increase in the cost of driving as political suicide. I am all for making drivers pay for their externalities, but I also respect Democrats' need (particularly since Trump's election) to...

I work nearby in the CIC near "galaxy square". I've gotta say, I'm so excited for this building. Kendall Square is a huge deal, truly influential on a global scale. It should have buildings that make it feel like a huge deal, rather than just some mid-sized sized city's downtown or some...

Jane Jacobs argues this point in Death and Life. ie, the safest streets are in dense neighborhoods of people who feel a sense of duty to look out for one another. I don't have data to corroborate (and if I did, I wouldn't know how to disentangle it from income disparity).

Nope, not the only way. You can one-way the steets (just for auto traffic) in an alternating pattern, making the grid inefficient for cars to navigate but efficient for pedestrians and bicycles. Many Boston-area neighborhoods do this to a limited extent, particularly East Somerville. It rocks.

Maybe not the answer you're looking for, but as a frequent GLX rider, I would rather any significant funding be put towards a Mystic Valley Pkwy stop, headway improvements, or better predictions for announcing scheduled inbound trains. Waiting in the cold isn't so bad if I know how long I'm...

Interesting. Ed Flynn has proudly gone on record as being "opposed to bike lanes on main streets and commercial roads", as recently as May 2024. I guess not everyone fits into either a pro- or anti-urbanism box.

Kendall Common from above, feat. 585 Third St in the background.

This didn't seem to fix the problem for SF

I've said it before in this thread, but I'll say it again. This type of thinking: > Oh, so you want to be a car-dependent exurb? Then we're going to take away your rail service! Take that! is just bad game theory.

Guys, we don't care who's right. We don't come here to read arguments. Take five, please. Anyway, 2024.12.22 peeking over MGH from the train at Science Park, on my way to the Amtrak to see my family for the holidays. Sorry for the terrible quality.

Yeah. Also spaces for musicians and artists. Newmarket seems to be filling this need in a big way. Are there cities where this sort of light industry extists under or next to housing? Does it all have to squirreled away in the margins of the city? I get that noise is an issue, but I know plenty...

NIMBYs: "We should just get cheese pizza because that's the only one everybody can agree on."

Yeah, these guys have been at Ball Sq from time to time. Every time, I walk by them, they ask something like "do you know how to validate your fare with your Charlie Card?", I respond "I'm paying on the train with my credit card", they say "OK, make sure you do that" and I say "Yup." No big...

Yup, having talked to some of the Lyndell's staff, they say the same. The development will also consume the bakery's current parking lot.

Potentially obnoxiously optimistic, but it's possible that the threat of federal funding disappearing is exactly what states like MA need in order to implement serious, long-term sustainable, state-level transit funding measures like congestion tolling, such that when federal funds eventually do...

Housing is likely to replace stalled labs in Davis, with 2028 the soonest apartments would arrive