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I want to try to clarify what we're discussing here - is it that presence of the I-90 highway is the MINORITY CONTRIBUTOR to Chinatown air pollution or that it is NOT AN ADDED HARM to the Chinatown community beyond the surface roads? The former may have some scientific backing in that the trench...

This is maddening. I have noticed the horrible condition of every single light fixture's anchor point every time I've crossed this bridge, and even pointed it out to people I'm walking with as a fun bit of trivia about the role of metals in concrete decay, noting with some horror how such a new...

Did my annual follow-up with RIDOT about the December 2020 plan to cross-honor Zone 8 MBTA passes on Amtrak NER between BOS-PVD. In December 2020, they said: And they envisioned this happening quickly despite the pandemic: However, in December 2021, they replied: Amtrak service levels on...

Nothing too exciting - just consistent work and progress on this project since groundbreaking. I still think the adjacent highway air rights parcels would have been a good place to rebuild the lower and upper schools, and/or local library, park, community center, etc. - a good place for...

The Chinatown Community Land Trust has reached out to the Chinese Christian Church of New England (currently located on Beacon Street in Brookline) to explore the potential purchase of the remaining strip of parking lot, with the goal of developing it into a public green space for the particular...

It looks like that may be because it was once envisioned to be so:

Wasting no time getting structural steel up, starting at the Harrison Ave side:

Big crane assembled on site!

Regardless (people in the northeast do still commute in the winter, including by walking and biking), the companies still deploy the units as they are often mandated to via contracts, and they do not do a good job prepping their fleet for snow. While BlueBikes can coordinate with the cities to...

As someone who has extensively used docked bikeshare in Boston AND dockless bikes/scooters in Providence, the latter is a bit of a disaster. In Providence, bikes are not only docked by users in the middle of narrow sidewalks wherever is most convenient for them, they are often deployed this...

"Ooops! All Silver Line!"

Not sure the best place to post this, but this was spotted near Citizens Plaza:

Copley Sq is also out of scale for the High Spine and the planned redesign does nothing to help this. 0 stories?! You could easily squeeze 1-2 Prudential Towers on that site.

City Hall Plaza Supertall

Interestingly, this project only includes about 2/3rds of the parking lot on the side closest to the existing Kneeland building. The remaining 1/3 facing Harvard St. is owned by another party (a church?) who did not engage the developer when they sought to acquire it. This is why a "ghost...

The chart looks designed for the demo crew, so "green" means "do your job here" while "red" means "don't touch."

Going back to the render in the first post of this thread, is that ad in the location implied to be the relocated digital billboard?

I know I'm not exactly going against the grain with this opinion, but this is totally f***ing nuts. Goofy on its face. If I was being shown one of these units and looked out the window to see this, I would laugh myself out of the building. I understand they were restricted in some way and...

The location - if you don't mind the specific street it's on - is also phenomenal. 300 feet to the Common, a minute walk to Boylston and Chinatown stations. I see the appeal!

There was a brief discussion about Bowker/Charlesgate in the Kenmore/WHOOP thread & in addition to demolishing the central overpass to daylight the park again, I feel like you could easily expand the pedestrian sidings adjacent to both the east and west ramps over the Pike/rail. (The eastern...