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I'm guessing just budgeting/cautious phasing. I'm not 100% sure I understand the A-B Connector photo (slide 54) in those previously linked images, but it seems to suggest they're provisioning for an eventual connection of the B piers with that new elevator bank shown as part of it. I can't...

I note that beyond the general niceness of faster schedules, that's IMO about the tipping point for being more attractive than the bus for travel time. BOS-SPG buses are generally scheduled at 1:30-2:30 today. Doesn't mean a lot without frequency increases, but IMO at a 2hr mark + decent OTP...

There's no way to make that work with the volume of demand. And the less nice removal option that was studied was going to pretty much result in 24/7 heavy traffic on Charlesgate E/W (+ Charlesgate E widening), still having a ramp right over the river on that end, and likely cutting Comm...

Happy to see we're finally doing the right study. I've always felt west of Springfield is absolutely absurd to be contemplating if your end destination isn't going to be Albany. Only studying the idea of trains to Pittsfield, getting to within 50 miles of a metro area of 1m people, not to...

I don't think you'd design much of Boston the way it is today if you were starting over. Anyway, I'll remind that in a couple years the end result will be significantly better than today for pretty much every constituency. That generally sounds like a successful compromise of design to me...

The "short-term" lot is normally for daily commuter rail parking and does not normally allow overnight parking, and that's a pretty normal price premium for staying overnight at the MBTA lots.

This had me get looking at it more, and....where? The current contraption is basically 8+ lanes wide continuously end to end, the widest this gets is 6ish. The current mess is just less noticeable because it's sprawled out over a vast area. This is almost certainly less lane-miles of asphalt in...

Meh, looks fine enough. Improvement over what's there now. What's the driveway at the west end for? I don't see any reason to need that and I'm certainly not in favor of adding a parking lot or something. Eh, it's done all over the city. It mostly works, mostly in the same way as in the NYC...

I have mixed feelings about the parking expansion, but I feel like I have equally mixed feelings about terminal-adjacent "Airport Hotels" when we're talking space-constrained airports close in to metro areas, in terms of being the best long-term planning either. Some disconnected thoughts...

The only bus traveling Boylston on the 2nd block is the #9, which in the AM rush hour is carrying no/almost no passengers on that stretch. (Primary travel direction in the AM is towards Back Bay, and anyone traveling inbound to that area got off at the stops on St. James Ave rather than spending...

I don't see any mention of this, but beyond the Bowker (mentioned in it's thread), some other significant bridge contracts were awarded by MassDOT last week: https://www.mass.gov/event/meeting-of-the-massdot-board-of-directors-february-2025-02-26-2025 Most significantly in my eyes: The Rourke...

18 years after this thread started, this is apparently happening. Contract awarded to Barletta Heavy for $83.9m (total project budget w/contingency is $103.6m) on 2/26/25...

I'll be the wet blanket: Iceland has basically unlimited nearly free power thanks to the same reason there's volcanoes erupting there all the time, and nowhere to export it to. It's why they smelt aluminum there even though the raw materials aren't mined there - it's one of the most...

In New England, it's neither of those because we don't have adequate pipeline capacity to meet peak winter demands and currently wind up with extreme supply crunches + prices, and doing idiotic things like having to run much of the grid on oil-fired generation when we get a long cold period to...

I think it's very unlikely that this gets through Congress. Perhaps they find a different angle to not pay, but I don't think this particular approach is too likely to succeed.

I'm pretty opposed to this being in effect at times of the day when the T is not running/has not been running for long enough to be possible for most people arriving to have used it for their trip. (I'll also harp once again that they should be running at least 1-2 more Logan Express outbound...

I will point out that this project budget does include (to my knowledge) building out the (possibly overbuilt) streets + infrastructure for a pretty substantial new chunk of city. I don't think that justifies the current cost, but it is more than just the highway, too. ---------- I'd be rather...

While I appreciate the link - I am not quite so interested as to watch an hour and a half video to possibly get a question answered and I doubt many others will either. If you've got a rough timestamp of some kind where the key discussion happens, that would be helpful both to me and I suspect...

Opinions on some points raised: - I actually think the non-grid subdivisions have to some extent become less effective at "restricting cars" in the modern era. Mapping apps don't have a problem sending you down 25 turns on roads that wiggle all over if they're faster, but no one would have done...

Glad they've been removed from the project, and it's awful that happened to you. I'm a bit confused as to what the big issue is here, though. The Grand Junction was out of service for 4 months in 2013 without it leading to the inability to maintain commuter ops to my knowledge. And I feel like...