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Are there plans for that massive substation right by the new stadium to be covered/buried/relocated/removed?

It's not as black and white as "fix" or "not fix". There are absolutely policies that would make the crisis less severe, even if it doesn't mean housing prices get cut in half or something. Incremental improvements still move the needle, and politicians should be pursuing them.

I think it's kind of cool. The dark color w/ the variety of setbacks, heights, and angles make it almost look like the waves of the harbor. Something lighter would just blend in with the rest of the seaport high-rises.

Agreed. Outside of an exhaustive, state-wide zoning/development plan (which, while politically untenable, seems like the most comprehensive way to solve this), what policies do you think could combat this trend? Only ones I can think of off the top of my head are: - Eliminate parking minimums...

Why does it feel like almost every new initiative in this state to increase housing boils down to a new, roundabout way to throw money at the problem...

How does this function as an alternative to OC double track? You're not eliminating any of the CR lines since you're not extending all the way down to Middleborough. And you can't even decrease the CR frequency on the Middleborough line that much. The capacity constraint on the single track...

Cool new visualization of CR ridership by u/whegmaster on reddit:

Interested in revisiting this discussion. There was a lot of talk about RL taking over OCR lines being impossible due to grade crossings, rolling stock, freight needs, etc. but I didn't hear much that fully disqualified the idea. Assuming: - only extend RL to Greenbush and Kingston (no...

I still can't get over the unpainted vents that make it look like the whole building has acne...

I don't think the expectation was ever that these multi-family developments around more peripheral towns would ever be for true car-free living. But a car-light lifestyle has the opportunity to be very easy, especially in a location like this that is close to the heart of South Braintree retail...

Is there an impassable technical limitation to the orange line that would prevent it from having 2 minute peak frequencies? Presuming a project like this ever happened, there would also be the funds for signal, track, and rolling stock upgrades galore.

I can see the issue if it became a question of trade-offs between serving just Medford or Malden + north, but I was coming at it from the idea that there really doesn't even need to be a trade-off, because there's no world where anything more than half of a theoretical maximum capacity on a...

Does anyone else worry about the amount of apartment-style housing built as car-oriented development? Stuff like NOBO in Saugus, etc. Not just from a "we need more TOD" perspective, but also because there are only so many people who are in the market for an apartment, whether rented or owned...

To hit the end of Gibson St requires 2 sfh demos, and it would only be another 2 sfhs, a duplex, and an adult day care center to get another 2 blocks to Park St. I think that's the real "end of the line" when it comes to ROW re-use. A short 0.5mi mined section could be done for the final stretch...

Always wondered how a branch of the orange line to Medford Square would pencil out cost + ridership-wise... Using old ROW w/ cap cut tunneling and the existing flying junction could bring costs down substantially. Only like 5-6 houses would need demo (plus a BUNCH of backyard construction)...

Are you assuming the expense of new construction cannot go down? Because there are a LOT of regulations at the state and local level that, if changed, would allow for significantly cheaper new construction. I don't know if projections exist on exactly how much that could bring down cost, but it...

It's a chicken and egg problem. You can't build dense housing without effective public transit, but you can't justify funding effective public transit without dense housing, or at least a plan to build it. This is why I'm of the belief that you need one all-encompasssing bill that does...

I'm skeptical about the interpretation of "collections increased up to 35%". That wording really makes it sound like one outlier they are cherry-picking to fit their positive narrative, and I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions about wider fare collection "doing well". To me, the fact that...

I'm new here, but if we are talking about new taxes explicitly to fund transportation infrastructure, surely a land value tax is the obvious answer? Income and wealth taxes could make sense in other applications, but for a situation where some of the greatest beneficiaries of the investment are...