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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    IIRC, the Big Dig economized by using the slurry walls as the walls of the tunnels. They should have made the walls fully independent inside the slurry wall bathtub.
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    Andrew Square

    I feel like emergency vehicles are wary of peanuts or variants thereof.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Could it be related to GLTPS fit out for the Type 9s?
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Outsourcing cleaning to the lowest responsive bidder probably doesn’t help. Cleaning the glass requires specialized equipment. The Pioneer crowd probably looked at the estimates for that and noped out of it. Unrelated: has there been any update on the Rotem option orders? They were due to start...
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    Portland Passenger Rail

    I admit that I am from away, but it seems like the former station location is table stakes. All the other locations hamstring the size, access to downtown, or growth options.
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    Cambridge Infill and Small Developments

    2161 Massachusetts Ave is getting real masonry for their luxury condo conversion. Amusingly, the hero shot on their website (https://theavenueresidences.com) is a drone flight over Inman Square.
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    Bedford Developments

    That traffic by the fire station is no joke.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    The Minuteman in Lexington is really nice now where they rebuilt it after installing the water main. No more tree root riffles near the Arlington line.
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    Bedford Developments

    One Railroad Ave is a mixed use project with 18 condos located catty corner to Depot Park.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    The Government Center head house is a perfect example of that. I don’t think it has been properly cleaned since it opened.
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    Massachusetts State Flag (we need a better state flag)

    I hate how the more historic flags have been appropriated by the more regressive parts of society.
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    Concord Developments

    No. The plans all involve tweaks to the intersection, but no way that the town would accept a flyover. I’m old enough to remember when Baker Ave intersected Route 2 at the top of the hill. As a passenger, my parents vastly expanded the more colorful parts of my vocabulary there.
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    Postmodernism deserves a little love too!

    I would love to see what you can do with the Design Research building lit up at night.
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    Citgo Sign

    Looks like there might be some temporary bracing while they are assembling the full structure.
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    Postmodernism deserves a little love too!

    44R Brattle in Harvard Square always struck me as a triple decker with a PoMo twist. It also overlooks one of the nicest hidden modernist spaces in Boston: the pedestrian courtyard of the Design Research building.
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    Porter Square Infill and Small Developments

    It’s a black site for some three letter agency.
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    Massachusetts State Flag (we need a better state flag)

    I like the feathers. The flower looks too much like Mississippi.

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