Northeastern University - Institutional Master Plan

Okay this time I stopped. Starting from Camden and heading west, everything looks tidy except for the western end of the sidewalk:

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Thanks for posting these!!

Yes, it's spectacular over there--

+ with all the highrises soon/eventually to be going up in the next few years.

Great see this park turning around just in time for the Fall semester.

btw, do people recall Tito Jackson tried to extort this project to the maxx??

#jackwagon
 
Wow!! Spectacular recreation area!! Really nice landscaping. Almost seems like no expense was spared! Congratulations are in order for Northeastern! Real nice pics, reverend!
 
Faster than I expected!

The most exciting thing in your photos is that water fountain with the bottle filler.
 
Yes, it looks nice, despite the city giving away a public park to another institutional monolith.

Have they put up any signs separating bikes and peds yet? This is one segment of the SWC where they should aggressively separate bikes and ped lanes. It's so frustrating how people just walk in the bike lanes. That shit would never fly in Europe.
 
FK4 said:
Have they put up any signs separating bikes and peds yet? This is one segment of the SWC where they should aggressively separate bikes and ped lanes. It's so frustrating how people just walk in the bike lanes. That shit would never fly in Europe.
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Boston pedestrians have never bowed down to motorists and they are not about to bow down to cyclists despite the latter's feelings of moral and environmental superiority.
 
Lol snap. Really though Boston dgaf about bikers and they dgaf about cars, pick one and hold on.
 
Thanks guys for posting those pics. The path looks great. Also, I agree the pedestrian and bike lanes should separated with clear signage as a safety issue but also because the path, like a road or a rail line, is a piece of transportation infrastructure that needs to work efficiently. There is plenty of room for pedestrians and bikes and if the rules are clear it will work just like every other bike path in the metro area
 
stevebikes said:
Hey, I'm a cyclist, but when I run the SW corridor, and the pedestrian path becomes just the sidewalk along Columbus Ave where it's a highway, I run on the bike bath :)
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For many parts of the SWC, it makes sense to use the bike path part for the reasons you describe. Those also happen to be less heavily trafficked parts, and in general, people tend to be aware of the fact that they're in the bike path, and act accordingly. The situation by Northeastern is completely different — young idiots walking in droves and with zero awareness, not to mention there's no aesthetic reason to just use the sidewalk (well, and the signs separating bike/peds were never put up, so they wouldn't have known that anyway).
 
Haha, nice.

For the record, I don't like extremely aggressive cyclists, either (like the case of how my friend had to basically break up a fight between a cyclist who was going way too fast and almost hit a pedestrian, then started screaming in their face on the Esplanade a couple yrs ago). I just can't stand that every mode of transportation — only in Boston — is a total free for all. Obviously the SWC isn't for biking 35mph (or expecting to bike that fast). But there's separate lanes for a reason.
 
I don't know how to post photos, but Northeastern is currently adding green treatments to all crossings of the bike path AND adding a yellow centerline along their frontage. Today they were working on the section next to ISEB.

Columbus Ave has had the cobble median removed and is milled, awaiting final pavement. With the Columbus Ave parking protected lanes and the improvements to the SWC path next to it, these few blocks are going to be amazing for biking.
 
sm89 said:
Columbus Ave has had the cobble median removed and is milled, awaiting final pavement. With the Columbus Ave parking protected lanes and the improvements to the SWC path next to it, these few blocks are going to be amazing for biking.
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Hopefully they won't be paving Columbus during student move in next week. But I would not place a wager on it.
 
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