The Bon | 1260 Boylston Street | Fenway

Sitting in traffic today

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Really not impressed with this building. Hoping 1 or both of those gas stations gets something unique and deserving of it's end location of the street wall like the Pierce at the other end.

Doesn't need to be as tall just something with good materials and a height variance from this crap. If I remember correctly the gas station across the street has a crappy replacement in the works but does anyone know if there is a proposal for the gas station next to this building?
 
Really not impressed with this building. Hoping 1 or both of those gas stations gets something unique and deserving of it's end location of the street wall like the Pierce at the other end.

Doesn't need to be as tall just something with good materials and a height variance from this crap. If I remember correctly the gas station across the street has a crappy replacement in the works but does anyone know if there is a proposal for the gas station next to this building?

Maybe keep them as gas stations. Cities need services such as gas stations. People who live or work in tall buildings need to gas up their cars somewhere nearby. Getting rid of amenities is foolish. (And don't say to buy an electric car, that's a pipe dream of the rich).
 
Maybe keep them as gas stations. Cities need services such as gas stations. People who live or work in tall buildings need to gas up their cars somewhere nearby. Getting rid of amenities is foolish. (And don't say to buy an electric car, that's a pipe dream of the rich).
Car ownership in Fenway is declining, as are electric vehicle prices. Regardless of your personal views, gas stations are going to quickly become irrelevant in core city areas.
 
Does anyone know what the webbing (?) straps hanging out of the structure where the columns meet the slab above are? I'm not that familiar with the details of concrete construction.

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Maybe keep them as gas stations. Cities need services such as gas stations. People who live or work in tall buildings need to gas up their cars somewhere nearby. Getting rid of amenities is foolish. (And don't say to buy an electric car, that's a pipe dream of the rich).
New gas vehicles will be gone in 10 years or less. Many auto manufacturers are going full-electric by 2025 and almost all will be full-electric by 2030. Boston (maybe all of Mass?) will be all-electric by 2035, so this is not a pipe dream nor just for the rich, sorry for the reality check Navigator4.
 
Maybe keep them as gas stations. Cities need services such as gas stations. People who live or work in tall buildings need to gas up their cars somewhere nearby. Getting rid of amenities is foolish. (And don't say to buy an electric car, that's a pipe dream of the rich).


Sorry. Buy an electric car. Or bike. Or walk. Or Uber. Or use public transpo.

If you're coming in from the burbs, park your horse and buggy at Alewife, Riverside, Quincy, etc.
 
Sorry. Buy an electric car. Or bike. Or walk. Or Uber. Or use public transpo.

If you're coming in from the burbs, park your horse and buggy at Alewife, Riverside, Quincy, etc.

EV charging stations for electric cars exist at a lot of new gas stations too
 
New gas vehicles will be gone in 10 years or less. Many auto manufacturers are going full-electric by 2025 and almost all will be full-electric by 2030. Boston (maybe all of Mass?) will be all-electric by 2035, so this is not a pipe dream nor just for the rich, sorry for the reality check Navigator4.

Thanks for the reality check. Do you have any facts to support those wildly optimistic (at best) assumptions?
 
EV charging stations for electric cars exist at a lot of new gas stations too

Great. Convert them to EV and other urban-useful stations over the next few years. It's not the gas that is the future of the city.

Look, I understand we need gas stations currently. My problem with what Navigator was saying was his/her tense and dismissiveness of what is clearly coming.

"Maybe keep them as gas stations. Cities need services such as gas stations. People who live or work in tall buildings need to gas up their cars somewhere nearby. Getting rid of amenities is foolish. (And don't say to buy an electric car, that's a pipe dream of the rich)."

Skate to where the puck is GOING.

EV, Uber, Public Transpo, Bike, Walk. Leave the horse and buggy at Alewife, Riverside, Quincy, and CR stations.
 
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Gas station quantity and location is perfectly suited to be handled by the market. Supply and demand will take care of this in time.

No point in arguing over it, and especially not in this thread.
 
Thanks for the reality check. Do you have any facts to support those wildly optimistic (at best) assumptions?
There's only about a thousand articles out there on virtually every automotive website (Car and Driver, Autoblog, MotorTrend etc) as well as articles on Boston.com. Come on man, this news has been out there for a few years now.
 
Thanks for the reality check. Do you have any facts to support those wildly optimistic (at best) assumptions?

Yes, courtesy of the State House & Baker administration:

^And we have a separate aB thread for debating/discussing Boston's readiness for that:
https://archboston.com/community/th...ctric-vehicles-non-autonomous-in-boston.6332/

All of this said, I agree with @JumboBuc that between now and 2035, there will likely be supply/demand forces that shape the remaining number of gas stations.
 

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