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I would argue this render map is equally deceptive. The majority of the "groves" are - on a human scale - hardscape, as are the sidewalks along St James and Boylston, but are all rendered as a top-down view with translucent green circles to suggest an oasis. Same for the mulch planter on...

How much is the City paying for this recent cope blitz in the media? It obviously stinks. Yeah, it provides more hardscape for pop-up events, but when those aren't happening, it stinks. When can we just accept that without trying to go "well actually the percentage of green space (if you count...

5/20 - back half of Joslin is gone. Hope they saved those relief carvings...

Same, as I'm sure is the case for many others. The outdoor observation deck part seems very cool - but I could never justify that price to amble around and look at the city I live in. I'm sure they made a number of tangible improvements for the one-off tourist demographic - I paid the outrageous...

Does the vendor contracted for the mTicket app support dynamic pricing models? My guess is that the T/Keolis never thought about it.

Took an inbound to South Station last night. Despite a pretty full train, no on-board ticket checks were performed, which isn't unusual even before the fare gates as conductors usually assume you'll have activated a weekend pass on an outbound trip. I will say that I've noticed more on-board...

Ruggles Station is roughly as "indoors" as the South Station train platform, if not a little less so.

Far beyond the scope of this thread so I'll stop with this comment, but I agree. A safe, supportive, accessible facility is only one component. You also need policies willing to consider involuntary placement for a subset of the homeless, as Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins suggested in 2021.

Many downtown garages have ~$20 weekend daily rates. For a day trip into Boston for 2+ people, it's tough to argue they should buy $20 of weekend passes and have to be on the restricted weekend train schedule. Any additional people or luggage makes it an even harder sell.

A fantastic example about how a governance model built around avoiding touching solvable problems makes life worse for all of us. Neither South Station nor Copley Plaza should be expected to be a 24/7 homeless shelter, and expecting them to function as one ruins their actual purposes.

Those are located in the aforementioned Jewelry District - and while it may seem deceptive due to the Providence River and steep grade of College Hill, the Industrial Trust building is actually closer to the main campus (1500 ft to the Rockefeller Library) than it is to the biomedical campus...

While this is beautiful reuse, this building is directly across the (narrow) Providence River from the RISD "campus," like 150 feet from the next closest academic building. The Industrial Trust building is only a couple doors down from this, but Brown is significantly further, either up College...

At least it's not this angle 🤮:

Got my streets mixed up - was thinking of Dartmouth: You could probably retrofit the Clarendon exit into one with fare gates since it's covered, but this one, probably not.

That set of tracks has a stairway exit across Clarendon outside Copley Place too, right? Can't imagine them putting a fare gate on that. Maybe something at track level?

I remember always finding it amusing when you can tell there's an absentee landlord... I think there was a cruddy rowhouse in Kenmore Square on the wide sidewalks near Charlesgate that used to have neighbors that cleaned right up to the property line, with a crisp edge on either side.

I have been traveling around the city exclusively on foot and by transit since the storm, and it's miserable. Certain areas have had more thorough sidewalk clearing, such as the Longwood Medical Area, but neighborhoods like Beacon Hill and Chinatown still have 5-foot piles of snow at every...

Yes, if the archways were hypothetically filled in at both ends (Atlantic and Summer entrances), you could install walls and platform doors where the new bus terminal extends to (i.e. below the track number sign location, just after the escalators/elevators from the archway to the far end of the...

Without electrification of the entire southern commuter rail network, all of the MBTA engines run on diesel. While they point the engines towards the far end of the platforms and have industrial ventilation fans under the bus terminal, this would lead to a smelly environment at best and a...

"It commonly is like this elsewhere" is not a compelling argument to me for "we should make our system more cumbersome than it used to be." If you had to guess, do you think the MBTA will consistently maintain good "operational reliability," or will it be chaotic like this frequently?