KriterionBOS
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Is the Back Bay Sheraton really 360'?
Would the pedestrian underpass be used though? Seems easier to just cross the street. In my experience the underpass at Mass Ave station on the Orange Line is seldom used and people just use the crosswalk.
I honestly didn't even know there was a tunnel there
That street crossing can get hairy when traffic is heavy, and I think the entrance will be used plenty if they make it look enough like a real headhouse. Folks transferring off of SB 1 buses would use it almost universally, I'd imagine.
relocation of the I-90 onramp west down Newbury to narrow/simplify the Mass Ave intersection
Would the pedestrian underpass be used though? Seems easier to just cross the street. In my experience the underpass at Mass Ave station on the Orange Line is seldom used and people just use the crosswalk.
Is the Back Bay Sheraton really 360'?
I use the tunnel at Mass Ave. if the pedestrian light is red and a train is coming. But otherwise I don't, because it requires going back upstairs to the fare gates. That would not be an issue at Hynes, as the station lobby is already bellow grade.
i would love to have seen a bit more boldness in shaping these Air Rights parcels, and the High Spine. But i suppose it could have been worse..... as i keep trying to convince myself. Then i think of 45 Worthington Street. No 'oh-my-God[ anything allowed but once in a blue moon. Not to mention this is one insanely stodgy town when it comes to building. And that has not changed despite a recent influx of new blood.
The nimby's always say, "we can't build tall buildings because we have no good rail transit.... and 'think of the children."
To which i reply, "we have no good transit because we don't build tall.... and if anyone's asking and their not, these are my reasons we haven't much good transit."
1. Underbuilding,
2. We kind of suck.
3. The United States plan to run an empire all over the world is just about over (crumbling, after we rebuilt most of the world).... This is why shit costs way more than the taxes and society's will to produce tunnels, and infrastructure and stuff.
4. Cities and towns in greater Boston are not paying their 'fare' share, and haven't been for the last 5 decades.
5. The management and labor structure of the MBTA with it's concentrations of disciplines including but not limited to running rail transit, corruption and graft.
6. Why is it they can build amazing public transportation in some parts of the world, but not in Boston? Because Burlington Northern ain't walking thru that door.
Not if parcel 9, 10, 11 are buit.