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    Green Line Type 10 Procurement

    Per last Thursday's board meeting, the first pilot car is largely complete for delivery this spring, revenue service next year 🙌 (I realize its not likely to be the default state, but I happen to prefer the look without the wheel spats. I've seen the occasional type 9 with them missing, and I...
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    AI Redraws Boston

    A lot of that is other things being branded as AI - not everything automated or based on statistical analysis has a ton in common with Gen-AI.
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    Arlington Developments

    No one would miss it, but its also a perfectly good building that probably wouldn't be replaced with anything bigger. What I am surprised by is their decision to site this new building on the front lawn, which will basically completely obscure the pre war building, when they have a perfectly...
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    Boston Nightlife

    Do the banks actually have that much influence over that? Like a house pledged to a bank as collateral, it doesn’t matter if the collateral isn't worth as much as it was the loan was taken out - even if you're underwater on the loan, you (or the resturanteur) still owe the bank 500k. Here the...
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    Tallest building in town, can you name the city?

    Exactly that - I guess Quint Cities doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but yea - "The Quad Cities is a region of five cities" thing is what I was going for.
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    Porter Square Infill and Small Developments

    Remember white hard hats only so we can be sure no work gets done :p
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    General Boston Discussion

    Theres no reason she wouldn't be able to - registration holds are for unpaid parking violations, not merely getting a lot of them. Unlike moving violations, there's no point system at play here. Same thing with the boot/tow list - its for >5 unpaid tickets. If someone pays them promptly, which...
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    I think the closest you get on this continent is NYCT - at the end of the day, they only have two "fleets" of rolling stock - the A (IRT) and B (BMT&IND) divisions and over 6700 total cars, so they're kinda always buying something - plus, my understanding is that NYC Subway actually designs the...
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    Name these US Airports from above

    Impressively fast! Did you need the clues, or was standalone arrivals building enough to find them?
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    Tallest building in town, can you name the city?

    This 16 story structure is not the tallest inhabitable structure in this poorly named metro area, but it is the tallest building in its city. It is slated for demolition as its previous user has moved to newer and better facilities, which despite early planning for a building that would have...
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    Tallest building in town, can you name the city?

    Seeing someone's basically got it, this is in the village of Itasca Illinois - population of <10k, 5.0 mi², roughly 20 miles from downtown, and almost perfectly in the runway centerline for runway 27C at O'hare. It gets away with that bc Midwest sprawl - its ~4 miles away. As far as a MA...
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    Name these US Airports from above

    One last one before I take a break from airports: This standalone international arrivals facility is slated for demolition and replacement with a new 2 gate facility at this airport which has seen a significant decline in passenger numbers in the past decades, largely due to changing aviation...
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    General Boston Discussion

    A quick check of the city of Boston's financials seems to indicate that parking enforcement is actually pretty strongly revenue positive, so the city should be willing to spend more on enforcement since it more than pays for itself. but generally I hold the general opinion that city controlled...
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    Tallest building in town, can you name the city?

    I know exactly where this is since I've been to a meeting here, so I'm going to leave it for the moment. That said, once answered, I have comments.
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    Name these US Airports from above

    This airfield served by a multitude of domestic carriers is a common winter home of birds you're more likely to see closer to home during the summer.
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    NYC Architecture and Development

    Err, please correct me if Im wrong but I was under the impression that the modern iteration of the 2nd Ave subway was always supposed to turn west at 125th - this is a logical extension considering that, and a upper crosstown route would be super useful. That said, in the FEIS Phase 2 of the 2nd...
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    401 Park Drive (née Landmark Center) | Fenway

    98% sure this is satire: https://www.facebook.com/share/189U4FcxPj/
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    Name these US Airports from above

    Out of curiosity so I can gauge how hard to make these, how many layers of clues did you need?
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    56 Pleasant St. / Worcester

    I would say this isn't the first parcel I would pick for a new tower in Worcester to fill out downtown, but it also isn't one I would in any way oppose.
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    Name these US Airports from above

    This airfield ranks above many other substantially better equipped airfields and terminals previously featured in this thread in FAA counts of passenger enplanments, despite not having any scheduled intercity service. Edit to replace image with a more inclusive terminal screenshot. [/SPOILER]

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