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Yes, but the Mayor doesn't seem as interested in bike lanes as she once was. I think the departure of Jascha Franklin-Hodge is likely also a break in prior bike lane momentum. I'm not super confident that we'll see as much success on this issue during term 2.

My assumption is that if Chisolm is involved in these rumors at all, it's only to create some leverage with Delaware North to negotiate a better deal for the Celtics at the existing Garden. Nobody in their right mind would think shoehorning a basketball only venue into a less central and transit...

And the article even raises that track 61 nonsense as part of the appeal. Good grief, this is nothing more than idle and uniformed gossip.

And I've obviously not paid close attention to this project, because I didn't even realize it was on Ave Louis Pasteur until I saw that shot. I haven't really spent any time on that street since my youngest graduated from BLS a few years back, this is a substantial change.

It's also worth nothing that the Krafts recently spent $250 million on upgrades. Adding that to the original spend, factoring inflation for all, we are probably looking at an $850 million stadium in Foxboro.

Great analysis @samsongam, especially considering your point that it is essentially three facilities, only one of which is actually shared.

I wouldn't focus too much on the visual similarities. In addition to what @JeffDowntown mentions, these fairly substantial upgrades caught my attention:

17 trains at 8:00 AM today -- 7 new/10 old. I didn't realize there were enough new cars for 7 consists.

It's also worth considering that the 'T is spending on maintenance again, after years of deferring such costs. There are still active state of good repair efforts just to catch up, but yearly, routine maintenance is now something the MBTA does, which means a much larger expense budget.

Loving all these pictures of the embankment and Forest Hills, but we have wandered way off topic. Perhaps a mod can split out these posts, so we can get back to parcel P-3?

Yep, I find this discussion and especially the old pictures @mssrro has posted quite depressing.

I have similarly been stymied in my efforts to find pictures of this. Even pictures of the old Forest Hills station, seem to be taken from angles that avoid showing the main line rail embankment. Interestingly, there is at least one place where the embankment wall remains to this day...

This is by far the best of the options that they studied. When this open, it is going to be transformative for people in the Valley. I really love the way Los Angeles is so focused on building cross town routes. The eventual mesh pattern is going to make for a very sophisticated system when full...

Similar importance to Russel, perhaps, but given the location of where Samuels has worked his magic, I'd put the statue in front of the Pierce building, right on the intersection of Brookline and Boylston.

What is needed, is a system through which neighborhood/independent establishments can sell their license to a seaport chain, and then obtain a free license. I can't recall whether 02215 is one of the zip codes in the neighborhood license program, but even if it is, the original set of...

I'm not convinced that he's opposed to catenary. I can't find the article right now, but Eng said in an interview (maybe 18 months ago), that the Fairmont BEB was a test, and not necessarily the final solution for decarbonization. That and some other comments led me to think he was playing a...

Have to wonder if this is real -- and lots of the comments on Facebook are asking the same question. It sounds better than what TimeOut offers, but the announcement also seems a bit often -- no mention of partnering with the landlord, etc., that you'd typically find in a press release. I'll be...

Could you give some specific examples? I have a sense you are pushing the frog in a pot theory, to point out that individual small lot building replacement can ultimately create more collective harm, than, say large scale urban renewal. My view is that generally the small scale tweaking is the...

Agreed, or even if we simply increased the height of the triple deckers by another 2-3 floors, we would approach that level. The key element of this discussion is the prevalence of small lots throughout Boston neighborhoods. A lot of housing could be built on them without necessitating a...

The vast majority of Boston's density is exactly from this archetype. Closely spaced triple deckers + narrow streets = very high housing density.