SBWTC /South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center | Seaport

Missing from this architectural rendering is the Partisans sculpture, currently next to the entrance to the Silver Line. Perhaps an oversight?

Two other things:

1) Perhaps I'm misreading, but the project documents say that there will be access to the garage from WTC Avenue? Not sure what that's about.

2) It appears there will be the ability to walk from WTC Avenue to D Street (parallel to the garage), making it easy to get from one place to the other. Currently, you have to go down to street level on WTC Ave an walk down Congress to get to D Street.

Docs: https://www.massport.com/media/2271/sbwtc_compiled_08152016.pdf

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JohnAKeith said:
Two other things:

1) Perhaps I'm misreading, but the project documents say that there will be access to the garage from WTC Avenue? Not sure what that's about.
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The render you posted with this comment clearly shows garage access from WTC Avenue. What's confusing here?
 
I guess what I meant to say was, "I am conflicted over using WTC Avenue as an exit point. They seem to want to make that side of the garage appealing to commuters, office workers, tourists, and conventioneers, but the entrance/exit makes it less so, IMHOOO."
 
Poor Waterside. Rents have been severely devalued. 1st ten floors on the south side now look at a concrete
 
aaaaaa said:
The transportation center looks a lot like a garage.
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Yup. The name is a slap in the face. Calling it a "transportation center" and giving 99% of the resources(taxpayer money and property) to drivers is status quo for this city, state and country though. Projects for drivers get done in a few months. Projects for public transit riders take decades if they happen at all.
 
Aren't parking garages money makers and transit money losers?
 
TallIsGood said:
Aren't parking garages money makers and transit money losers?
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???

They aren't comparable.

Parking garages are useless without roads, and roads are "money losers" just like transit.

When was the last time a parking garage got anybody anywhere?
 
falcon42 said:
Poor Waterside. Rents have been severely devalued. 1st ten floors on the south side now look at a concrete
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Waterside is on massport land and part of the larger massport development. this garage was always apart of the larger development so its not news to Waterside and was always expected.
 
TallIsGood said:
Aren't parking garages money makers and transit money losers?
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Cash flow positive with negative externalities; cash flow negative with positive externalities.

The victory of cash accounting over strategic public investment
 
Its on Massport land, so they get the garage fees, they don't run transit and don't need to build roads except in the immediate area. Transit is a regional issue, not a Massport one.
 
^ Exactly. Drastically mis-aligned incentives.

The port authority is a building a parking garage to serve the convention center and to support multiple residential developments on other parcels owned by the port authority.

No wonder its a net loss for the public...
 
CSTH said:
^ Exactly. Drastically mis-aligned incentives.

The port authority is a building a parking garage to serve the convention center and to support multiple residential developments on other parcels owned by the port authority.

No wonder its a net loss for the public...
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Why would we ever expect MassPort to have to align its development efforts with city and regional transportation planning? It is not like their major facilities generate massive amounts of traffic and transit impact. Facilities like Logan and the Conley Terminal.

Oh wait -- hum....
 
Massport seems generally disconnected with the rest of the city. Its funny to me that you can't use the parking app in Massport, they have their own meters. Its almost like you aren't in Boston.
 
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