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Oh FFS... it's a pay-on-board service. All they'd need to do is put platforms on both sides with ramps up and let the bridge do its job either way.

I wish that were the world we lived in, actually. I think the "market" that matters is made up of billionaires, not humans. No one actually wants another branch of Silicon Valley Bank, but their private equity owners will pay more than the beloved card shop, so there you go. The infinite size of...

I don't think Sligo will come back with the tower dead. I'm not sure it would have survived had the tower never been proposed. Businesses close all the time. But I don't think that encouraging capital to tear down the buildings that house them faster helps anything, same way as I don't think...

This is, to the letter, the argument made for tearing down the West End. Also, what market forces? What economic viability? Davis and Harvard are perfectly viable now, and this joke of a developer couldn't get financing for his tower.

When Kendall Square had no high rises, it looked like this: I'm sure you'll agree that there's a difference between 1980s Kendall and Davis or Harvard in 2026. FWIW, I'd also argue that Kendall Square has never existed without tall buildings. As that image shows, the Green Building and...

That's essentially the urban renewal mindset: this neighborhood isn't serving the purpose the planners think it could, so let's get rid of everything that makes it special and build something more aligned with our worldview. Density and housing can be achieved just as easily with triple-deckers...

Funny how we're just taking Copper Mill at his word: My man's like Lyle Lanley if he couldn't convince the residents of Springfield. No different than Korff (of Riverside and Kenmore Hotel fame - remember that one?).

Piccadilly Square is the same for a collection of commercial buildings in Newton Center. It is not a square. It is also not "just across the Chestnut Hill Reservoir" but nearly 2.5 miles away down Beacon Street. And the intersection of Beacon, Centre, and Union in Newton Center that sits next to...

Yeah, I'm not sure a non-Olympian could use a cycle path along Route 2.

Technically speaking this is directly adjacent to the proposed location for a relocated Kendal Green/Route 128 P&R, but I don't think they envision anyone taking transit to this office. The company is moving there because the CEO wants to drive to work there and probably either already owns a...

Could also be Global's former space, which wouldn't have the lab component.

Building from my "number the whole airport" idea from a couple years back, this actually works perfectly as C70-C99: They're going to have to do something with the numbers for existing/maintained gates anyway, since C23-25 doesn't work without the pier layout.

I'm guessing that someone was AI.

I'd guess it was meant to be 6" and the 1 is a typo, but who knows... :)

This has been redesigned and rebranded to a Moxy. https://s3.amazonaws.com/somervillema-live/s3fs-public/2026-06/McGrathHwy1_ZP25-000113_%20Narrative_11_26_25.pdf

8 Winter Street (apparently already under construction): https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/ZoningDevel/specialpermitsadvisory/sp411/sp411_applnvol2_20260511.pdf This is the kind of project you don't need AI for. Microsoft Excel probably designed this.

North River Leerink is apparently a lab space developer over on the other side of the tracks. They've actually delivered something in the neighborhood before. That said, I don't see anything of that scale in their portfolio. https://www.northriverleerink.com/portfolio-grid/ Wood is the...

This would be the second one (it's a little less silly here): https://www.mass.gov/bridge-replacement-interchange-improvements-at-routes-279-in-natick

It would have looked like this... People thought twice.

I appreciate your experience, but the culture of FHWA in prior decades is just not all that relevant to the culture of MassDOT today. Without being too open about it, I'm pretty familiar with that culture and the policies and philosophies that pervade the agency. I can't speak for every person...