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The TD Garden area will have 4 towers of that height?
The residential and office towers here, plus Longfellow Place (u/c) and the existing Avalon building
The TD Garden area will have 4 towers of that height?
The residential and office towers here, plus Longfellow Place (u/c) and the existing Avalon building
So happy for this news. Any other parts opening at the same time?[CR-Subway Connection]Opening Nov 1.
So happy for this news. Any other parts opening at the same time?
^ There is something very pleasing, nostalgic about those tall windows like the old Garden.
This article is mostly a press release, but it does say the food hall (“the city’s largest”) will be open to the train concourse.
https://urbanland.uli.org/developme...ng-a-former-sports-venue-the-hub-on-causeway/
This article is mostly a press release, but it does say the food hall (“the city’s largest”) will be open to the train concourse.
https://urbanland.uli.org/developme...ng-a-former-sports-venue-the-hub-on-causeway/
^ There is something very pleasing, nostalgic about those tall windows like the old Garden.
Note how the Food Hall is connected to North Station:
Is anyone else wondering how woefully undersized that MBTA access vestibule is? One set of stairs, one escalator and one elevator to process a crowd before and after an event (plus normal rush hour commuters)?
Yes, people are used to exiting the garden and crossing over Causeway Street, but if they know there's a covered access way to the GL & OL, especially when it's raining/snowing/cold - that's a recipe for disaster.
The tunnel itself was already fixed in size, so the test is if the entrance is big enough to "fill" the tunnel. The great hall does provide better overflow capacity than the existing side entrances.It is too small...it isn't even bi-directional. I regret this.
But the after-game surge (and maybe the peaky-McPeak of rush hour?) was probably going to be too big for most "right-sized" access, and they're obviously trying to move some of that traffic via the Food Hall and "The Hub" (covered area) retail, which should be good at slowing/spreading the exiting surge.
Being able to get to Causeway as a straight-shot through "The Hub" is a fairly decent option--much better than today's out-and-around path.
The tunnel itself was already fixed in size, so the test is if the entrance is big enough to "fill" the tunnel. The great hall does provide better overflow capacity than the existing side entrances.
The tunnel used to be the major pinch point before the fare gates. But if you remember the old head house, it had two escalators, an elevator and a double wide set of stairs to get you down to the tunnel. And it would overcrowd.
Now, you're moving the same amount of people to a much smaller area to begin with.