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Despite mostly hanging out in the transit threads this is actually what I'm most qualified to talk about. Compare Lowell St in Somerville to Devonshire St in downtown. Both are ~40-50ft building to building, but they feel completely different. Lowell St feels open, light, airy, personal, and...

I'm not sure I would consider the garage to be in better shape than it was back in 2017. Although the place I'd consider it most likely to happen would be the former 'express exit' which has been closed for quite some time now and is now a homeless encampment from what I've heard.

Crazy idea I know, but have we considered that 5-6 story buildings are in fact not the minimum size for multi-family homes? You can achieve similar density by targeting a higher GSI (IE: Denser street layout and/or closely spaced buildings) with individually smaller buildings. The densest block...

How long until this garage kills or involuntarily amputates someone? I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Some research based guesses: 2: Talbot Ave coming out of Ashmont, and Huntington Ave between Francis St and S. Huntington? 4.1: 66 along North Harvard St? 10.2: Assembly I should have gotten even without looking, Woodland and Ball Sq I'm less bothered by. 10.4: Riverside 10.5: Orient Heights and...

Not quite what it says. Broadly the argument is as follows: Neither the MBTA nor the roads currently have enough capacity for local demand, therefore traffic. If you want to 'fix traffic' then your options are as follows: Massive highway projects that bulldoze neighborhoods and cost loads...

NYC made it work for the SBS validation machines, and Toronto has Presto tap points at every (I think) GO station. There is nothing exceptional about New England weather than precludes their use.

Just a show-off post, here's my transit card collection going into 2026. I'm hoping to expand it quite a bit this year, I have a week long trip to Turkey planned where I should be able to get 5-6 more. Seattle Boston Porto London Paris Chicago NYC (RIP Metrocard) Also Porto Netherlands...

As far as I can tell there was never a streetcar route operating the section of the 109 between Harvard and Union Sq, that has always been a bus route since it was created in the early 1920s. I'm not actually sure why though, it doesn't seem especially hilly or narrow.

I've seen some recent plans for street designs downtown that have the BNRD Silver Line service as this, not the 'dog-leg' that was given. Here's the relevant section of my updated map.

My understanding is whenever you see this kind of back-to-back announcement of routes it's often a 'defensive' measure on the part of the second airline. The fact that Delta moved second would support that, they're trying to protect their emerging hub in Boston by ensuring that customers...

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If you can get to Needham Center, which might only add one extra grade separation, then I can get behind that. But I'm not sure that was ever the hard part, getting across the wetlands was. How much of a concern is yard space with a longer OL extension? For Roslindale Sq obviously it's a...

An MBTA which, for many south shore commuters, is already faster than driving.

Previously the pattern has been a single weekend for inspections and then a longer shutdown the month after.

This is the big problem. Forest Hills has a huge bus handling facility, it's right next to the Arborway garage, and it's well situated for transfers between buses on multiple corridors. This is not a coincidence, it's been designed for this for literally more than 100 years. No OLX station can...

Perhaps it just caught some lawmaker's fancy or something.

It's long but also, where are 34E riders going? I'd bet a good deal are going to LMA in which case no, truncating at Roslindale Sq is not a good idea.

Meeting notes from the 12/17 Mattapan Line Meeting: Overview: There were a lot of big-wigs here tonight, including several execs and assistants. Sam Zhou is the most prominent name. The project had a rejiggering corresponding with leadership changes at the MBTA Parts of the project are...