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chumbolly said:
Concord has been burying their power lines. This is possible because it's a town-owned utility and in the 80s they got approval from the town residents for a 50 year plan to bury all lines. They approximately 50% done. Adds a buck or two to my monthly electric bill. While NSTAR, as an investor owned utility, will never have the motivation to spend money on a 50 year plan, I would imagine the Public Utility Commission could mandate this and price it into the rate structure so it is cost neutral for the power companies.
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Boston actually owns a lot of the utility poles in the city. A number of years ago my neighborhood association in JP looked at what it would cost to underground the overhead utilities and the city told us it cost about $3,000 a linear foot! That was on the tail end of the big sewer separation project, which of course entailed digging up all the streets and lots of the sidewalks. At the same time, the MBTA was refusing to remove the old Green Line catenary poles since they didn't have a budget for it.

San Francisco has a a neighborhood advocacy group pushing the issue. And San Diego has had a program for undergrounding underway for some time.
 
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Just to try to wrangle this back on topic, New Balance did pay to bury all the utilities along Guest St.
 
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I dont understand why they dont require any new development to pay for it on their block
 
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A final comment on the overhead wires tangent, three --images on why some, not all, wires should be buried (particularly those that are main feeder lines) in dense urban areas where ice, snow, and wind sometimes visits.

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and this last image [rural, high voltage transmission] from the January 1998 ice storm that devastated Quebec.

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stellarfun said:
A final comment on the overhead wires tangent, three --images on why some, not all, wires should be buried (particularly those that are main feeder lines) in dense urban areas where ice, snow, and wind sometimes visits.
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Transformers on the ground however, are vulnerable to flooding and tidal surges...also something that's going to visit Boston.

Fukashima and New Orleans were damaged wherever their electric infrastructure was too low to the ground. (the half of Fukashima's reactors whose backup power had been raised above the tsunami operated smoothly, never loosing cooling-pumping.)

The overall economic case for burying power lines, factoring both the costs of outages and also the everyday costs is not a slam dunk and often favors overheads. Florida, despite its hurricanes, puts a lot above ground.

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Overheads are cheap to install, cheap to replace. The Energy Information Agency has a great page devoted to this question:
The effect of undergrounding on a customer's utility bill depends on the characteristics of each unique project. A few examples show a range of effects:
• A 2010 study assessing undergrounding options requested by the District of Columbia Public Utility Commission noted that burying all overhead equipment would cost $5.8 billion. A local utility official later stated this would add $226 to the average monthly bill over 10 years, or $107 per month for 30 years.
• After a series of storms, North Carolina investigated the costs of undergrounding the state's distribution infrastructure and found it would raise electric rates by over 125%.
• Anaheim, California, decided to completely convert its system for aesthetic reasons. To minimize the impact on customer bills, undergrounding is taking place slowly over a period of 50 years, funded by a 4% surcharge on electric bills.
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It would be interesting to see that chart modified to show cost per local subscriber. I suspect the urban sticker shock would be less shocking.
 
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Part of the reason is so expensive is because there are typically several utilities on the poles. So if you ask NSTAR to put their utilities underground, someone needs to pay for separate duct banks for Comcast, Verizon, City of Boston, Emergency Responders, etc. etc.
 
 
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Is it just my perception, or did they really hustle with that glazing?
 
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Bruins announce groundbreaking date for new practice facility in Brighton

By Jen McCaffrey | jmccaffr@masslive.com
on December 04, 2014 at 4:00 PM, updated December 04, 2014 at 4:01 PM

Construction on the Bruins long-discussed new practice facility in Boston is about to commence.

On Thursday, the team announced they will have a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 10 at Boston Landing, the site of the new facility on Guest Street in Brighton, right near the New Balance headquarters.

The Bruins have held practices at Ristuccia Memorial Arena in Wilmington (about 40 minutes north of Boston) since the 1987-88 season. The move to Boston will not only be easier for players and coaches but will make the open practices more accessible to the public.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, Bruins principal Charlie Jacobs, president Cam Neely, among others are expected to be at the ceremony. Sketches of the new rink with details on the project as well as a name for the complex will be revealed on Wednesday.

In July, the the team announced plans for the practice facility, noting it would include approximately 25,000 square feet of dedicated locker room, training and office space.

The original timeline called for construction to begin in the spring of 2015 and for the facility to be completed by the fall of 2016, but it seems as thought that has been pushed up. The area is also under construction for a commuter rail station on the Framingham-Worcester line, which is set to be complete the fall of 2016.
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Mass Live
 
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The groundbreaking for the Bruins facility was today. He are a few renders that I have not seen before: http://bruins.nhl.com/club/gallery.htm?id=50009&navid=DL|BOS|home


And some interesting tidbits from the Globe:


The Warrior Ice Arena, named after the athletic equipment manufacturer Warrior Sports, will replace the Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington

The 75,000-square-foot arena will be surrounded by offices, residences, and a hotel, developers said at the event. The rink will be open to public, said Mayor Martin Walsh, “so everyone will have the chance to skate on the same ice the Bruins practice on.”


Construction of the arena, which was originally scheduled to start next year, started earlier this month because the permitting process went more smoothly than anticipated, said Jim Halliday, the managing partner of NB Development Corp. Construction is planned to wrap up in fall 2016, he said.
 
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How's the Commuter Rail Station coming?
 
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BosDevelop said:
The groundbreaking for the Bruins facility was today.

And some interesting tidbits from the Globe:

The Warrior Ice Arena, named after the athletic equipment manufacturer Warrior Sports, will replace the Ristuccia Arena in Wilmington

The 75,000-square-foot arena will be surrounded by offices, residences, and a hotel, developers said at the event. The rink will be open to public, said Mayor Martin Walsh, “so everyone will have the chance to skate on the same ice the Bruins practice on.”

Construction of the arena, which was originally scheduled to start next year, started earlier this month because the permitting process went more smoothly than anticipated, said Jim Halliday, the managing partner of NB Development Corp. Construction is planned to wrap up in fall 2016, he said.
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"The Olympics Rises from Here" to paraphrase a well known development's tag line
http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...celtics_may_net_a_home_by_bruins_new_facility

Celtics may net a home by Bruins’ new facility
Thursday, December 11, 2014
By:
Donna Goodison
New Balance — the developer behind the Bruins’ new practice rink that broke ground yesterday at the Boston Landing project — is also in talks about building a Celtics practice facility there, the Herald has learned.

New Balance has been talking with the Celts about relocating their practices from the Sports Authority Training Center at HealthPoint in Waltham to Boston Landing in Brighton for about a year, according to a source familiar with the discussions. The new Celtics practice facility would be connected to the track and field sports complex planned by New Balance, but the two could be built independent of each other, the source said.

The Celtics are doing an internal evaluation of recently built NBA training facilities and will regroup with New Balance after the analysis, the source said
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Let's see we've already got a track coming -- can we add an indoor Spring Training facility for the Red Sox, a Soccer Stadium for the Revs which can double as a training facility for the Pats

Might as well throw in a Velodrome and then dig a canal to the Charles for kayaking
 
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whighlander said:
"The Olympics Rises from Here" to paraphrase a well known development's tag line
http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...celtics_may_net_a_home_by_bruins_new_facility



Let's see we've already got a track coming -- can we add an indoor Spring Training facility for the Red Sox, a Soccer Stadium for the Revs which can double as a training facility for the Pats

Might as well throw in a Velodrome and then dig a canal to the Charles for kayaking
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Soccer stadium would could and should never double a training facility for the Pats. Training where you play destroys the field.
 
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coleslaw said:
Soccer stadium would could and should never double a training facility for the Pats. Training where you play destroys the field.
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Slaw -- the last few bits
indoor Spring Training facility for the Red Sox, a Soccer Stadium for the Revs...Velodrome and then dig a canal to the Charles for kayaking
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were entirely tongue firmly planted in the cheek

Its a bit like the Pentagon talking dual-use about something such as the Navy's new shipboard laser weapon -- civilian use ==> poping balloons that escape from a birthday party
http://gizmodo.com/the-us-navys-fir...in-the-1659644456/1669417667/+andrewtarantola
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DbgNju2wE
 
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whighlander said:
"The Olympics Rises from Here" to paraphrase a well known development's tag line
http://www.bostonherald.com/busines...celtics_may_net_a_home_by_bruins_new_facility



Let's see we've already got a track coming -- can we add an indoor Spring Training facility for the Red Sox, a Soccer Stadium for the Revs which can double as a training facility for the Pats

Might as well throw in a Velodrome and then dig a canal to the Charles for kayaking
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If the C's relocate, you have to wonder if 98.5 sports hub will relocate/make a studio in the development. Currently they are at Leo M Birmingham Parkway, and since they have the C's/Bruins games it may make sense.
 
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