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Wondering why the MBTA's institutional culture/posture seems to draw inspiration from the Kremlin circa 1936... might as well be asking why the sky is blue. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/business/mbta-commuter-rail-contract-bidding-keolis/

If your experience of PVD station does not extend into 2026, then you're in for a *special treat* upon your next visit. All these pictures were taken today around 6 pm. The multi-year renovation has finally almost finished; I'd estimate it's at 95% completion. It has dramatically improved the...

Nothing gives me greater delight on this forum than seeing your endlessly tiresome, incoherent, reactionary, Howie Carr Lite ranting get dunked on by a variety of thoughtful AB commenters. To call-out one of your more exceptionally asinine assertions you've spewed here recently: Boston was...

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"--Daniel Burnham, 10 Summer St. (aka Filene's) architect I get that this is merely a provocation/whimsical trial balloon to help stir enlightened dialogue, but it still seems ridiculous. For all the revitalization Brown has surely...

Is it? A few observations. I swear I have no dog in this fight and am not being negative just for negativity's sake. (As we all know, the negativity in this town sucks already as it is...) 1.) The COMING SOON for the Blank Street Coffee allegedly coming to DTX has been up for well over a...

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-05/mit-economist-rent-control-will-only-worsen-state-housing-crisis Pray that rent control does not get passed this fall. As much pain as skyrocketing rents are generating for overly-burdened renters, I can't imagine a more efficient way to deter...

How "relatable" what is? Like, Taylor Swift is relatable to my nine-year-old daughter? It's really quite basic, and not remotely odd: --The Normandy invasion was an unfathomably vast mobilization involving incredibly intricate, delicate, interdependent logistics --FIFA World Cup 2026 USA, of...

I was merely pointing out that the ridiculously trivial aspect of the outstanding $7M, in proportion to the colossal logistical mobilization for all of World Cup Boston, would be highly analogous to all of the Normandy invasion being scrapped due to a strike by a single Higgins boat operator...

Meanwhile... 105 days left until Haiti vs. Scotland, and the standoff continues over who is going to pay Foxboro's security outlay. This story (no paywall) is fairly comprehensive and, not surprisingly, quite sympathetic to the municipality's cause/perspective, as I suppose most local media...

Here you go: https://properties.boston.gov/#/details?parcelId=0304520000 I'm puzzled as to why it's classified as Commercial/Pay Parking Lot; I'd always understood it to be an Eversource substation, and thus a critical piece of the area's electrical infrastructure--something you'd never ever...

Actually, NH does: the SNHU arena, and it strongly parallels the AMICA pavilion when you consider the "comps": 1.) seating capacity: SNHU seats 10k hockey/11k basketball/11k concerts; AMICA seats 11k hockey/12k basketball/14k concerts 2.) driving distance from Boston's CBD: 50 miles for SNHU...

No doubt a substantial portion of your apathy growing-up stemmed from being raised in AMICA-Ville--your friendly corporate overlords there discouraging the glimpsing of any horizons they didn't control. ;)

In an ideal world, McKee doesn't win reelection, and a whole new, far more dynamic regime is ushered-in that takes the I-195 bridge fiasco as a catalyst for exploring ways to improve West Bay/East Bay connectivity, period. RI will always be cleaved by 'Gansett Bay--that's integral to its...

Your post, though focusing on an appalling disaster, is also a great reminder of how many decades suburban commuters pre-dated what I assume is a general misconception of "oh, suburban commuting really only began post-1945." That Wiki page states that the unfortunate individuals taking that...

Note, you confused 250 Washington with 294 Washington. 250 Washington was the address for the Devonshire apartment tower's office podium. As you can see here, 294 Washington is Synergy's residential conversion project, but 250 Washington (which, again, is to say, 1 Devonshire office podium) is...

add 31 Milk St. (110 units): https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2025/12/22/downtown-boston-residential-conversion-underway.html

At least, prior to August 2017, one could shake off the deep melancholic funk induced by Alewife's Bucharest 1976 vibes by walking ten minutes to Lanes & Games--the closest thing the Route 128 area had, following the closure of Wal-Lex in 2002, to the lanes showcased in the Big Lebowski, as far...

"can" is doing an awful lot of work here. Right now, unless significant track improvements have transpired in the mere five months since they debuted, they're actually running SLOWER than their predecessors in the Acela fleet. "Although the high-speed trains are advertised as 10 mph faster than...

1.) If not a regional Holocaust museum at 125 Tremont St., then what superior location within Boston city limits do you propose? Why would that location be better, objectively? 2.) When you write "all the tourists and visitors," you seem to be acknowledging that this location, being on the...

Yeah, studying the Google Maps aerial, it's quite clear that the tracks and all their associated infrastructure easements/complications, underlay a very significant portion of the lawn's overall footprint. That said--and not to wander off onto an excessive tangent--but this is another reason...