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    DCR Allston-Brighton Riverfront Parks and Parkways

    https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/dcr-will-make-one-of-its-pointless-charles-river-highways-half-as-pointless Still don't understand why they don't get rid of the Soldiers field road section along the waterfront and combine with this overbuilt road... Get asphalt off of DCR land!
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    Assembly Innovation Park | 5 Middlesex Ave | Somerville

    Bike lanes are great to build for at this stage, but I don't really see Assembly as having much bike traffic until those huge commercial buildings are occupied creating more demand, and better+safer connectivity is established with the surrounding neighborhoods. The Everett bridge in particular...
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    Charlestown Infill and Small Developments

    Charlestown Neighborhood Council Development Committee Public Meeting, Wednesday, March 27, The Charlestown Neighborhood Council’s Development Committee will hold an in-person public meeting at the Knights of Columbus, 545 Medford Street, on Wednesday, March 27, at 7 PM. The sole agenda item is...
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    General Boston Discussion

    This is an economics problem - those with entry level jobs or young families simply can't afford to stay. We don't even have enough ratholes to be like New York to add supply. I'd be far more interested in a neighborhood breakdown of Family-Student-Shared housing by neighborhood. An enormous...
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Interesting. I think I'll add "Domestic Oligarch" to my title, or maybe just "Outer Cape Despot." Thanks COVID for encouraging my tyrannical tendencies.
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Some interesting ideas around Provincetown's bike path expansion project, looking to connect to Truro by shrinking the Rt 6 footprint. You'd need to construct a barrier I think to block out the highway noise and wind to make this a comfortable ride...
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    Milton infill and small development

    https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/milton-planning-board-eyes-two-zoning-plans/ Interesting development - they are at least nominally trying to recover by saying they'll come up with 2 plans, one for adjacent and one for the current rapid transit community. "The law and the accompanying...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    Anybody know what happened at the public meeting last night? "public hearing for the phase one project will be on Thursday, March 7, 2024" https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/06/after-a-4-year-delay-belmont-gears-up-to-build-its-first-segment-of-the-mass-central-rail-trail
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    Biking in Boston

    Whose responsibility is it that all the crosswalks on the Somerville community path extension suck? The grade is bad, they're misaligned, and they put minimal effort into view lines to passing traffic. Is this something that Somerville is permitted to fix? The generator placement pisses me...
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    New England Revolution Stadium | 173 Alford Street | Boston-Everett

    I know parking is going to be forced on this development, but how many spaces do you think are available within a 20 minute walk? I see all of the Casino parking, all of the Gateway Center (my map doesn't recognize properly the new Northern Strand extension path under the tracks), Sullivan...
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    Cambridge Crossing (NorthPoint) | East Cambridge/Charlestown | Cambridge/Boston

    Haha - I love the old industrial masonry (not the gas tanks), but the huge glass boxes in Northpoint hold no design value whatsoever to me- they literally reflect to avoid needing any character themselves. If only this development had tried a cohesive neighborhood aesthetic besides "STERILITY"
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Inching closer to reality... "Massachusetts is set to receive about $350 million in federal money to help pay for the replacement of two aging bridges that carry traffic on and off Cape Cod... included in the fiscal year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act released by the...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    Great puff piece profile of MTA repair ops with some solid photography. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/subway-repair-shop-new-york.html
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    Milton infill and small development

    Trying to understand this issue - hadn't seen a map. Looks like they tanked the assignment intentionally by rezoning far away from where it should have been, and literally avoided the near-transit neighborhoods voting for increased density. Although - East Milton Square looks like a pretty good...
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    Suffolk Downs Redevelopment | East Boston/Revere

    OPTIMISM (I have to imagine that's what the leasing agents say every morning.) They just need to land the first 4 buildings (3 residential) and I'll call this a TOD win. The little "shared work" retail shack is a timber structure I'm still hoping is not VE'd of any awesomeness - Leers...
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    Grounding the McGrath

    What we really need are more Highland-size potholes to slow them down. /s
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    Biking in Boston

    Moving North... I'm confused by the new McGrath Hwy plan to put 2-way bike lanes on both sides of the street, in addition to wide sidewalks. I'm not sure who this is helping exactly... It's taking elevated pavement, and turning it into grounded pavement with a few extra trees. Somerville loves...
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    Grounding the McGrath

    Interesting conversation - which points need rezoning? Immediately altered section is south of the truss where a giant blvd is a strange change. These properties just south of the truss bridge are terribly sited. What a mess. There's a park that could be extended on the East. There are...
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    Union Square D2.1 | 10 Prospect Street | Somerville

    I feel the exact opposite - I appreciate that they didn't go with yet another glass box. I find the "Bacon Building" and the little labs to be far less out of place than the Boynton Yards or Cambridge crossing monstrous boxes of glass that have no relation to their neighborhoods. Is there a...
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    Second & Vine | Everett

    I like that there's actually depth, and not just different facade colors pretending to be depth. With the amount of residences now in this neighborhood the retail hopefully will fill up quickly.

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