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Seems worth noting that this morning, (and I suspect the next few days), is showing off our incomplete energy transition/regional challenges. As of 11AM today, the lights are being kept on in part by running 4.4GW of oil fired generation - 26% of total power on the grid, and the coal plant is...

Jetblue started running 3 routes out of there to Florida (FLL/MCO/PBI) a couple months back. Supposedly those have done much better than expected. I recognize BOS is a very different destination/market, but I guess they're seeing some opportunity there.

Ignoring that MA has a significant yearly vehicle excise tax that the others generally don't have makes that vehicle registration chart extremely misleading in practice, though. At minimum, even on a 5+ year old vehicle with a cheap original MSRP, you are typically looking at $50+ a year in...

They also need to extend parts of the service later or better yet, run at least some minimal level of round the clock service. While from an objective viewpoint it does probably still pencil out to use Logan Express most of the time even if you have to pay a cab/rideshare to get back, it feels...

While I don't want to overstate it (there are obviously many larger improvements that would be better) - They are supposedly moving ahead with quite a few improvements to the buses there that will be fairly substantial when/if built. Not a full list, but: Q70 bus lane on the last mile of the...

To a bus stop or most of the surface Green Line branches, it is pretty obviously impossible?

It appears to have been proposed every session by the Rep from the 9th Norfolk district for the past 5+ years and has never gone anywhere. It is curious that it's continued to be proposed even after they chose a different rep - I presume there must be some loud person or political backer that...

I assume that's just bad phrasing (or language that sounds better for federal grant criteria/scoring or something). There aren't any "normal" pedestrians, the south side of the bridge only goes to a hiking trail/undeveloped land, you can't walk anywhere else - so you're a hiker of some kind if...

Kind of? There's efforts going on to rework Wellington and Sweetser Circle - which are both pretty significant, but not a broader corridor thing. While I don't drive the road that frequently, the core road issue to my eyes seems to be a few absolutely terrible intersections that crush...

No idea why it was originally built either if it was non-structural, and entirely agree that's a remarkably positive change, nice to see. It also makes it a lot easier to visualize how some of the proposed ideas for activating that land could work out. I did find the 2022 notice of intent for...

My point was more that I don't think much of the current truck traffic on Galen St is using it as some kind of shortcut or toll cheat to somewhere further in than Watertown itself. They don't have many ways to do that from there, and the ways they do have do not usually work out better than just...

Brandon Hall burned down in 1946 and has been a name that means absolutely nothing in terms of a location/wayfinding aid for 80 years, so I'm not sure that's really a better portion of the name to retain. Kent + Hawes are very low ridership and have limited at best potential for ridership...

Pointing out the obvious: No trucks allowed on most/all of the river roads inbound from there - Nonantum, Greennough, SFR, Memorial, etc, nor on a lot of the rest of the parkways. North Beacon/Brighton Ave, Arsenal/Western yes, but I think it's somewhat obvious that it's probably not a very...

Hard for me to judge clearly from the pics but I suspect it would be difficult/impossible to actually put an ADA-compliant entrance at that corner that directly goes out to the street corner, at least assuming the door on the side of the building in the 2nd pic is at the ground level. Maybe...

The Saters listed it for sale in 2020 but pulled it off the market when no buyers showed up (or at least at their price). In 2022, they proposed to demolish the whole complex and build a 6-story hotel on the site, albeit with 2 music venue spaces on the ground + basement levels - but the net...

Glad to see it and hope it's approved quickly, especially with the Middle East venues probably having their days numbered.

Does Massport actually own it? The MA Parcel Viewer + Boston Tax Parcel Viewer both seem to suggest they don't - which suggests ownership still lies with the city? State entities clearly own all the surrounding lots abutting the road, but this stretch of road, unlike basically the rest of the...

In general....a lot more people take vacations in summer than winter. YVR looks to do higher passenger volume in summer than winter, so that does support the idea that demand to Vancouver/BC is higher at that time. Going the opposite direction with the argument though - the airline has a finite...

The intersection at JFK Street appears to be a disaster every time I've been there, so using that as a positive example doesn't....seem like one to me. It's so inadequate to handle the load that it frequently causes jams stretching all the way back up to Harvard Square. That stretch is also...

We recently redesigned/rebuilt that section and there's 1000 other untouched corridors in the Boston area competing for limited road funding/attention/labor (including the rest of Comm beyond Packard's...). Slight tweaks/paint is one thing, but doing center running bus lanes here or any other...