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    Shreve, Crump & Low Redevelopment | 334-364 Boylston Street | Back Bay

    To me it feels like a bastard child of Lyrik in Back Bay's facade style and Parcel P (Foundation Medicine) in the Seaport's square windows (though there are probably better examples, but these came to mind first). I can't tell if I like it yet. Something feels uncanny-valley about the mashup of...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    From the MBTA board meeting, here's the PDF for the MBTA Strategic Plan Annual Update for 2023-2024 (note, they made this PDF a bit wonky, so it's double-wide after the first page). Here you'll find what the MBTA has done for the year regarding their stated goals. Here's a screenshot from the...
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    Massachusetts Turnpike/I-90 (Current Projects, Conceptual Improvements, & Long Term)

    I also don't know if you can find the actual studies. I've tried to look for these types of things before too. I'm unfamiliar with the state prior to moving here in ~2007 but from my quick rabbit hole dive you might be able to find some more "official" references to it on the State Library of...
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    Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail (South Coast Rail)

    Is it this guy? Holy cow this is quite the playlist for 5 months of content. I would really love a Newport Rail Connection. I've tried to get to Newport, RI by public transit and the only time friends or I were able to do it well was with the Providence->Newport ferry in the summer, but you need...
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    MBTA Construction Projects

    Maybe what you're looking for is the "Capital Needs Assessment and Inventory (CNAI)...a routine analysis the MBTA performs every three to four years to help the agency understand the overall condition of the transit system." Along with the CIP to see which improvements they're planning for? I...
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    This helps, thanks! From that Center for Housing Data I found their DataTown site where you can see the annual housing production per town. But that data ends seems to end at 2020, so I looked at where they're getting their data from. So from there I found the US Census visualization tool's...
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Maybe they're forcing one lane there, and keeping the hatched area paved to more easily move to a future state (NS-SS-Seaport bus corridor) (see images here in this streetsblog post) where future T-7 buses can queue-jump there?
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    Idea for fixing the housing shortage

    Is there anywhere to see how the region is doing at adding housing stock? The St Louis Fed has things like "housing structures authorized for boston MSA" or "1-unit houses authorized in Boston MSA" which doesn't seem to capture amount of housing units or bedrooms authorized for people -- just...
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    I forgot that I was gonna pass by today too. We also have sidewalk getting poured on the southern side. Can’t wait to actually walk thru this normally for the first time in what, 2+ years?
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    We’ve got lane markings now. From 9/17.
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    Bulfinch Crossing | Congress Street Garage | West End

    Also from Thursday 9/12 (@5p):
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    MGH Ragon Building | 55 Fruit Street | West End

    Hopefully this height will help the redevelopment on top of the West End Library down the block which the latest RFPs range from an 82ft, 84 unit senior housing to a 230 ft, 180 units of senior+family housing. EDIT: Whoops, I missed/forgot the news that this one was chosen (155ft / 119 units)
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    Biking in Boston

    Yeah, definitely a lot of usage around North Station. Right now at noon on a very temperate Monday (~70ºF at 9am, ~78ºF at noon, 50% humidity) -- 5 bikes available out of 113 docks (95.5% usage) over these 4 docks: (via https://account.bluebikes.com/map)
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    The Official MBTA System Map

    It's planned from Plan: East Boston -- see pages 107-109. This plan was adopted by the BPDA in Jan 2024
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    MBTA Fare System (Charlie, AFC 2.0, Zone, Discounts)

    New Ways to Pay: MBTA Announces Contactless Payments Accepted Onboard Buses, Green Line Trolleys, Mattapan Line Trolleys, and at Subway Fare Gates Starting August 1 More information here: https://www.mbta.com/fares/charlie/tap-ride
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    Amazon Office II/SeaPAC | 1 Boston Wharf Rd. (Seaport Sq Parcel L5) | Seaport

    This image should show a little more of the pathway (got a friend to take a picture from the other side)
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is probably exactly what you're looking for.
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    Boston Harbor Flood Protection Projects

    I haven’t counted but I’d think this is where these numbers come from: NWS Water weather page for Boston harbor tide measurements With this raw data of recent crests being the one that is being referenced.
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    Reasonable Transit Pitches

    I think you've hit all the spots (and then some via Fairmount Line) For reference: Rapid Transit Half-Mile Walkshed arcgis map (No Silver Line or Above Ground Green Line) You'll see the spots on the southern Red Line and northern Orange Line where there are breaks in the polygon. Which you've...

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