My understanding is that there is going to be a single garage for the complex. Right now they're doing work on the One Marina Park Drive garage to merge it with the others. This is based on what the construction dudes told me, so take it for what you will.
I’ve begun tweeting a daily photo of the construction of the new Fan Pier buildings to record the progress. (My office overlooks the construction site.) Take a look if you are interested:
http://twitter.com/#!/fanpierpix
Because it will encourage people to use the electronic lanes which flow much faster. I think tolls tend to be unpopular because of the slowdown, not just because of the cost.
It also seems like there is an O street missing in that first set -- Jersey, Kilmarnock, Lansdowne, Marlborough, Newbury, O?, Peterborough, Queensberry. Was Van Ness Street ever called anything else?
Following up on the discussion of Lowell, here is an interesting article:
Planning firm seeks to recast Lowell as a where place you can live without a car
?I think of Lowell as a city-state,?? Speck said. ?I don?t think of it as a suburb of Boston, or even related to Boston. It wasn?t created...
Yes -- according to the BCEC Web site, it was the "American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Symposium and Congress 2010." Definitely a different sort of crowd. :)
I got there around 10am on Saturday and waited outside for almost an hour before being let in. But it was worth it to get my photo taken with Boba Fett and an Imperial Stormtrooper. Some of those costumes are really impressive.
Re: Filene's
In the past 6 months we've had better weather than most of the rest of the country! I think we got much less snow than did Washington DC this year.