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Tallguy, the question isn't "are two platforms sufficient if everything is running perfectly on a given day and all of the new infrastructure, north and south, miraculously comes on line on the same day." The question is, "will two platforms be sufficient in a world where a) equipment...

I stand by what I wrote. Yes, I realize that there lots of people interested in urban planning involved in Transit Matters. But lawyers and planners and programmers and community advocates aren’t engineers, or more specifically, engineers with heavy rail experience and, ideally, an understanding...

I'm glad that Transit Matters exists, and I admire a bunch of what they do. Someone needs to hold the T accountable. Because of that, I'm hesitant to criticize. But whenever the discussion topic involves maintenance facilities, layover yards, platforms and sidings, it becomes obvious that while...

If we want to make the Nubian/Seaport branch proposals a bit less "crazy," we need to limit ourselves to portals that don't impinge on Elliot Norton Park itself. Sure, it didn't exist when the portal/incline was last used in 1962, but the chances of eliminating a fifty-year-old park that is...

As an Anglophile, I've always found the acronym tat to be perfect. Their effort here does not disappoint.

We cover this every time a building goes up on a tight, narrow lot - see the Moxy or 45 Province. It's not a choice left to the architects or developers, it's a function of the building code. This is built quite close to the lot line, and that controls the percent of the East elevation that...

NABB and BBAC are risk-averse entities controlled by elderly people trapped between dueling orthodoxies that together are rigidly stifling. The first, driven by an old-school interpretation of modernist tenets, dictates that anything faux historic or ornamental is verboten - that would be...

If I can, I'll take some up-close pictures, because bad as it looks from further away, as cjbski notes, it's REALLY bad up close. Some of the panels are chipped, and the panel fit/alignment is awful. I can't believe we lost that nice period corner anchor building for this dreck.

The ridiculous carport (I hate to dignify it with the term porte cochere) in the previous iteration was appallingly bad. Look straight ahead, not up. I don't think most city dwellers give a rip about what a building looks like in photos from Medford or the Blue Hills, and at the street level...

I agree that we should look forward and not backward. But as someone who has spoken up at many meetings and written many letters about projects across the city, I understand how easily opposition is dismissed. Perhaps we on ArchBoston can better coordinate on the next example of unwarranted...

In Poolio's photo, on the side of the Jae's building you can see the party wall shadow of where the townhouses were until '99/'00. I can't find a photo, but they were similar in appearance and of the same 1830s/1840s vintage as the ones across the street, akin to what you see on Beacon Hill...

Correct. There were two early c.19 townhouses on the Shawmut Ext. side of the parcel, the destruction of which remains one of the more shameful episodes of Boston development in the last 25 years. Long story, but basically the owner kept trying to get permission to tear them down, and via...

Latest public update on progress from Consigli/Greystar: Recently Completed Activities: The earthwork subcontractor completed site soil excavation for the foundation and soil haul-off. Waterproofing of the basement slab is complete with structural rebar and MEP slab installation taking place...

Obviously we aren't the ones paying the freight, but it seems to me that some improvements wouldn't have cost much money to execute. That ridiculous mechanical cover on top, for example ... is that final? It looks worse than a shed on deep discount from Home Depot. It reminds me, not in a...

Guys, I believe this site is governed by the Pru Master Plan (negotiated with Back Bay) and whether it is or not, it is going to need to pass muster with Back Bay neighborhood. It may not cast huge shadows on Copley, but it's south of residential Back Bay. Something along the lines of Mandarin...

To elaborate a bit further: I think many (most?) of us who are active on this board are on the "same side" as advocates for greater spending and a more aggressive, positive posture of government on public transportation, especially rail. We wish TransitMatters the best. We want them to be...

F-Line is not alone at being ... how shall I put this? ... disappointed with TransitMatters. This piece and their recent regional transit vision piece both come across as if written by well-meaning kids who don't understand railroad operations basics and don't understand the economics of...

Equilibria covers the key issue for me above. Getting this done sooner rather than later is important to the Urban Rail vision on the Worcester Line. While I'm broadly sympathetic to the theoretical argument about longer-term reductions in highway capacity, this miserable stretch of land...

Separate from the issues that F-Line covers above, I think we've lost sight of the objectives again. "North Station" obviously still needs to exist in some form, because the Orange/Green transfer is absolutely critical. In the absence of NS Surface, we are again stripping out platforms that...

The engineers will definitely need to think hard about how to facilitate more easy, cross-platform transfers at points further removed from the tunnel - that is, not at North Station or South Station (or Central Station if that ends up being part of the build). One of the challenges we have is...