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Are you arguing they should plan the redevelopment primarily for riders who ... don't ride very often? That doesn't sound like a winning recipe to me. If they don't commute very often and not during peak times, then honestly driving is probably fine for them. No?

32 homes on a former used car lot. Nice!

Two travel lanes is an improvement, but no bus lanes and I'm still seeing monster 6-lane intersections :mad:

Somerville employs not just one, but two arborists. Tree stewardship is something Somerville has been doing relatively well in recent years. I was initially devastated when they cut down the tree in front of my house and others on my block. When I contacted the city about it I received a...

I think most people (MassDOT, politicians, planners, voters) don't really believe you can have economic growth without automobile traffic growth. I think they don't really believe in changing mode share away from cars, even over long periods of time.

I'll take my lumps for being unaware the Corner Mall is well patronized. It is possible I haven't been in there since the darker days of the pandemic. I haven't been back though because my last impression was pretty bad. I'll have to check it out again soon. No class prejudice intended...

Walked through the other morning. The thing that struck me most was just how small it is, not so grand in the end. It's a lobby with some food, seats, and smattering of unusable space. Somehow simultaneously smaller and with more stuff than 100 Fed. It should give some relief to the notoriously...

Isn't this EXACTLY what we've learned NOT to do with public housing (or any housing)? Courtyards ringed by unlovable boxes. Woof. There is some sort of human instinct that this form ought to be great, but it never is. One linear courtyard down the center of the parcel, spilling out onto busy...

This seems really half-assed to me. Make an SL plan and implement the plan. Don't build something just for the sake of building something

Holy Reverse Branching Batman!

IMO, Everett to Sullian to Kendall is low hanging fruit

Ah, I see now. Thank you!

I don't think you could terminate service at SS Under because it ... isn't a terminal. Isn't whole point of the NSRL "under" stations to thru-run the trains? If you stop long enough to change direction, switch tracks, etc then you really gum up the works and neuter the tunnel's capacity. Maybe...

I'm usually the person defending against criticisms of labs, but I do acknowledge there are downsides. One is that most jobs in a laboratory are well above median income, many far above, which puts upward pressure on both rents and home prices. Most communities in the US would love to attract...

This is the first time I have seen Cubic card readers in Green Line trains. They aren’t turned on and still have the plastic film on the screen.

I'll take 3 units... no make it 4. Oh, what the hell, throw another studio in while we are at it!

This is a great point. The rise of remote work has vastly reduced the density of workers per sq ft in commercial office space. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new normal is much closer to equal density between offices and labs.

I also hope the facade is preserved. Scientists like the city too. I’m not sure where the hate for labs comes from. It is the same as any commercial space. Some workers commute from the burbs, some come by pubic transit, and some walk from a few blocks away. I 100% acknowledge that the central...

Admittedly this is anecdotal, but that doesn't ring true to me. GLX trains are standing room only every rush hour in both directions since like 2 months after it opened. Last week I think headways increased a bit because trains were notably at sardine-level, but quite Red-Sox-game-level. If...

I guess it is just hard to see that corridor go from not even meriting a T-route in the BNRD to getting an SL-route