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That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! So the blank wall I took pictures of would be the yellow building, which is phase 2 of 3. So... decades, but within my lifetime? Who knows. There's a lot of good things to say about this project. But that's a pretty crummy pedestrian experience to...

Sorry for the bad pictures, but what is supposed to eventually go in here? And on what timeline? It's kind of crazy that after all that construction, the ground floor along Atlantic includes a couple hundred feet of blank wall. Or, blank except for a couple of new curb cuts.

I hear you, but I don't think that's quite the right way to look at it, for a couple of reasons. First, this is so much better than the alternative, which is to keep allowing (or encouraging) low-density suburban sprawl. In that case, those households might need two or even three cars for...

I don't know. Has this been a waste of political capital? It seems like this was a non-issue when it was actually passed, so no political capital wasted there. Most of the fighting has been with a faceless state board that determines compliance, so politicians generally don't have to stick their...

Agreed. Even without delays, I've spent many hours there waiting to transfer between buses, or from a train to a bus, or whatever. It looks like there's some seating at each gate, but not much. Maybe that's enough in the usual case, but certainly not when a whole bus is delayed. I hardly ever...

Kind of hard to say. A weird mix. The vote to delay bike lane projects was passed by Toner, Pickets, Wilson, Simmons, and Nolan. Toner resigned from city council this year, charged in the brothel case. Pickets died in office last year. Wilson was just voted out. Simmons keeps her seat. And...

Elections were yesterday, and five of the nine elected to Cambridge City Council are committed to finishing the bike network on time. Burhan Azeem, Marc Mcgovern, Sumbul Siddiqui, Ayah Al-Zubi, and Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler. Two more, Patty Nolan and Cathie Zusy, were given a lesser endorsement...

Has nobody gone in? No pictures? No MBTA press release? I'm just excited, is all, and I don't go through South Station so much anymore.

I think you skipped Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, who should also be on that list. https://www.cambridgebikesafety.org/ I was just comparing the Bike Safety endorsements with the pro-housing endorsements from A Better Cambridge, here https://www.abettercambridge.org/25quest I don't totally agree...

I actually think looking up at SST from inside South Station would be pretty cool. Or could be. Maybe that's just me. The shadows would block a lot of sunlight for sure. But actually, from a quick poke around, it might be better than I was thinking. I remebered BPDA released this shadow tool...

I know there's too much retail in the waiting area, and that's kind of a problem.... but I miss that bookstore. Bring back that bookstore. Still, a surprising number of books on my shelf came from that little shop. But enough nostalgia. I'm hoping the roof is one day replaced with some glass...

"We just can't do transit system expansion," I say on my way to the ribbon cutting. "It's not possible, and we shouldn't try."

Yes, this. She could have resigned, or alternatively just studied tolling anyway. She could have come out and said "The Governor doesn't want to do tolling. But we've been tasked with solving a funding gap and were told everything is on the table, so this is on the table." Instead it looked...

Neat! I was just out on that wharf, looking ashore, wondering when that site's day would come. As for mass transit, this site is a five minute walk from Lafayette St, which has buses if someone doesn't want to talk to the train station. But they're infrequent and, yeah, not great mass transit...

Ok, I'm super curious what folks here think of this news. So I'll throw out my total outsider take and maybe someone here knows better.... This looks bad, right? This is Healy's second Transportation Secretary to leave suddenly with no explanation. The first left in under a year. Tibbits-Nutt...

I see, thanks for the clarification. Honestly, I'm one of those people. I see them as so linked, I think of them as basically the same. What's the practical difference?

"New Boston" was a kind of slogan or ethos behind a lot of the Urban Renewal here in the 1950's-1970's. Boston had been in economic decline for decades; buildings were crumbling; and the whole city felt old-fashioned and incompatible with a modern city. Urban planners explicitly wanted to build...

I passed by the under-construction plaza in Central Square. It is, still, under construction. This seems to be happening in fits and starts. A bunch of work will get done, and then nothing seems to happen for weeks or even months. It looks like the whole plaza has been fenced off with...

Average Commuter Rail Speeds I don't know where to stick this, but I think this is maybe interesting for people looking at expanded commuter rail services, or add some around Providence like discussed above. This is just the average speeds of existing commuter rail services. I also Included...

I can't believe no one on aB has jumped on this story yet. Kowloon Restaurant is being redeveloped! They'll keep a much smaller restaurant, but put up almost 200 apartment units. The iconic A-frame-like entrance will be no more...