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  1. BeyondRevenue

    North Washington St Bridge

    I looked at all the renderings and I was wondering where the typical bridge trolls were. While they’re typically under a completed bridge, it turns out they’re here! Either that or Grimm Brother’s Construction is still bitter about their losing bid.
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    Reminds me of when my daughter was little and I used to read her this... https://www.amazon.com/Town-That-Got-Out/dp/0879237864
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    Evolving use of Office and other Space

    Way back when, Jane Jacobs made that case as well. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/86059/the-economy-of-cities-by-jane-jacobs/ The big picture... innovation happens when you mix different people with different skill sets together seems to be a no brainer, and yet, we cling to outdated...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

    Throwing this over the transom and running...
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    …Unless you talk about MGH. You can see every one of Boston’s boom years in the pastiche of exteriors attached to the plex… from Founders to Yawkey and everything in between. And yes. I consider MGH a company.
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    Green Line Type 10 Procurement

    I wonder how many Walpolean window kicking asshats the people of Seville have to subsidize. Do they kick out LRV windows there for funzies or do they have a society that understands the concept of an ‘own goal’ when you take a commonly shared public amenity out of commission? Stats would be hard...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Honestly everybody everywhere plays Big City every day. I would think the reason Boston was chosen as the target was because we have a long history of cynical meta criticism and would get the joke without being thin skinned. In Herald terms… that means we can take s punch and laugh about it...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    True. Kinki-Sharyo just… kinda… worked?
  9. BeyondRevenue

    Tobin Bridge Relocation/Replacement

    Something like these would work. I’m wondering if it would be substantially cheaper to build something closer to at-grade if we made everything north of the Tobin inaccessible to tall ships. If the state buys the scrapyard and the concrete plant, what else needs that kind of clearance? While...
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    "Dirty Old Boston"

    Around here? https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3488482,-71.0665519,3a,75y,17.84h,96.67t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfF3rY4xKJSsmtauc_xre1g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    The way our public feedback approach to design goes: a handful of Babcock bordering blue-hair boomer property owners would stop the whole project because they would suddenly be getting traffic on the streets we own. Malvern is all absentee landlord owned student slums = no power, no objections...
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    Still doesn’t change the fact that we funnel all the Allston Cambridge N-S traffic through 1 bridge. It’s a mistake that should have been fixed 40 years ago. This project needs more crossings.
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    I-90 Interchange Improvement Project & West Station | Allston

    If only there were alternate routes to get from Allston to Lower Alston during construction … Oh wait.
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    There was a four decade period of anti-city rhetoric and actions as well as anti-MBTA (= anti-minority dog whistling) from Governor Weld to present day). That hobbled us. Prop 2 1/2 killed a chunk of local revenue that then came from the Commonwealth instead of local budgets. There’s no excuse...
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    We may have been held to an LA growth standard up to about 1960. Then, apples might have been apples when Boston proper was at or around 800k people. That number dropped to 510k. Boston and the MBTA have been playing a deficit game ever since… sadly out of sheer utility. At 690k, we need to grow...
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    Fixed it for you. We build rural cloverleaf abominations by cutting through forests to serve population slivers… without questioning the expense. Get this shit done.
  17. BeyondRevenue

    South Station Tower | South Station Air Rights | Downtown

    If I'm not mistaken, that community prefers the term 'little people'. Wicked lahge, though.
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    Bowker Overpass replacement?

    I’m with the “remove it, don’t replace it” crowd. This plan really says traffic throughput is all these engineers understand. I’d bet the brief doesn’t prioritize design for human needs … unless those humans are hurtling over a livable street at 50+ mph. The best alternative to congestion...
  19. BeyondRevenue

    Biking in Boston

    Not enough
  20. BeyondRevenue

    Assembly Sq <-> Casino Footbridge

    The station that would make the most sense would be a new connection to the Grand Junction line hitting CR, Silver, Orange, Green and Red. But that’s going to be much more expensive — and more out of reach — because this overbuilt thing has to cross two existing ROWs to connect directly to the...

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