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Ruggles Station is roughly as "indoors" as the South Station train platform, if not a little less so.

Far beyond the scope of this thread so I'll stop with this comment, but I agree. A safe, supportive, accessible facility is only one component. You also need policies willing to consider involuntary placement for a subset of the homeless, as Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins suggested in 2021.

Many downtown garages have ~$20 weekend daily rates. For a day trip into Boston for 2+ people, it's tough to argue they should buy $20 of weekend passes and have to be on the restricted weekend train schedule. Any additional people or luggage makes it an even harder sell.

A fantastic example about how a governance model built around avoiding touching solvable problems makes life worse for all of us. Neither South Station nor Copley Plaza should be expected to be a 24/7 homeless shelter, and expecting them to function as one ruins their actual purposes.

Those are located in the aforementioned Jewelry District - and while it may seem deceptive due to the Providence River and steep grade of College Hill, the Industrial Trust building is actually closer to the main campus (1500 ft to the Rockefeller Library) than it is to the biomedical campus...

While this is beautiful reuse, this building is directly across the (narrow) Providence River from the RISD "campus," like 150 feet from the next closest academic building. The Industrial Trust building is only a couple doors down from this, but Brown is significantly further, either up College...

At least it's not this angle 🤮:

Got my streets mixed up - was thinking of Dartmouth: You could probably retrofit the Clarendon exit into one with fare gates since it's covered, but this one, probably not.

That set of tracks has a stairway exit across Clarendon outside Copley Place too, right? Can't imagine them putting a fare gate on that. Maybe something at track level?

I remember always finding it amusing when you can tell there's an absentee landlord... I think there was a cruddy rowhouse in Kenmore Square on the wide sidewalks near Charlesgate that used to have neighbors that cleaned right up to the property line, with a crisp edge on either side.

I have been traveling around the city exclusively on foot and by transit since the storm, and it's miserable. Certain areas have had more thorough sidewalk clearing, such as the Longwood Medical Area, but neighborhoods like Beacon Hill and Chinatown still have 5-foot piles of snow at every...

Yes, if the archways were hypothetically filled in at both ends (Atlantic and Summer entrances), you could install walls and platform doors where the new bus terminal extends to (i.e. below the track number sign location, just after the escalators/elevators from the archway to the far end of the...

Without electrification of the entire southern commuter rail network, all of the MBTA engines run on diesel. While they point the engines towards the far end of the platforms and have industrial ventilation fans under the bus terminal, this would lead to a smelly environment at best and a...

"It commonly is like this elsewhere" is not a compelling argument to me for "we should make our system more cumbersome than it used to be." If you had to guess, do you think the MBTA will consistently maintain good "operational reliability," or will it be chaotic like this frequently?

It would work a little better if the track assignments were much more obviously visible (think, destination signage the same size as the large track numbers signs and visible without obstruction from the entire arched area), happened significantly earlier before scheduled departure or were...

Just got off an inbound rush-hour weekday train. Most fare gates were marked as active. A confused lady who didn’t speak English was in front of me trying to figure out how to exit, so I confidently, mTicket app already open, said "excuse me" and scanned the code. Unfortunately, this didn't work...

Came off an inbound CR this Sunday on the lower tracks (1-6) and it was a total mess. The cluster over by Track 1 (5 or so gates?) was offline and being actively worked on by one worker in a high-vis vest. The cluster closer to Track 4 had only 2 gates working (green check) with the rest broken...

Gotta hand it to you, it takes a dedicated hater to call the Public Garden "not that interesting." One of the most, if not the most, beautiful places in the city.

Honestly, it's fine. But full disclosure, I liked the render for the Four Seasons logo at One Dalton and begrudgingly think the relocated John Hancock sign looks neat.

Has anyone else spent extensive time walking back and forth outside the new section on Atlantic? It appears they've hired private security guards to stand (no chairs) in the entrances to the car ramps basically all day and night, presumably to prevent people who hang around the station full-time...