Recent content by as02143

yeah - like I mentioned - i think it's a function of being in a place where people are most concerned about "their time" being "money." A university town in Europe is going to have a larger contingent of people who are not under the capitalist pressure to produce. Meanwhile, places like here...

Your response indicates that you do talk about Europe as monolithic. Italy, Hungary, and soon the Netherlands are now making their far-right turns, campaigning to raise speed limits, Trumpify their immigration system, and take a hard look at their urban transportation policy. Your anecdotes...

Having been in other countries with varying degrees of bicycle infra - i don't think it's actually "driving culture" unique to Americans. The more capitalist that a place seems to be and the more active someone is within it, the more wild behaviour I've seen. As an example, in Amsterdam, don't...

oh how about some south shore dinkies?

Was this not the project that was going to do work to repair things like this condition of the bridge support columns on the viaduct or this condition at Route 16 or finally make the repair at Roosevelt Circle?

I haven't seen many newly financed projects go into development since rates got jacked starting in Jan 2022. Most of the projects that have gone in seemed to have some sort of financing locked in before then. The 60 Kilmarnock seemed to have money flowing in late 2020 and early 2021. The tower...

It's wild that I'm typing this - since I generally do not like gray on buildings, but, I kind of like how it contrasts with its surrounding buildings - both the traditional brick and contemporary midrise buildings.

Non-food bike couriers are still around. But, Mess folks are much less common today tho than 15-20 years back. Like a lot of gig/service work, there's a huge spatial mismatch between where folks who can afford to work for that cheap live and where folks who want those kinds of services live...

Maybe more so tourists attempting to visit the campus of crimson rather than students themselves?

I suspect a lot of the early movers are actually doing this. Making small changes that allow compliance. But I also suspect they were already trying to deal with affordability through zoning already.

40B gives a good amount of control to localities/devolves power. MBTA Communities removes some key local controls - zone size, lowest unit density standard, age restrictions.

The freak-out is proportional to the perceived "loss" of "local control". To be honest, the amount of local control (to exclude) is one of the cardinal sins of the original colonist's forms of government.

The person in the halls of power who understands this best just tried to make that point, but, got shut down hard by our fearless leader in the corner office. So...

I don't think there's enough state money to do a mini arbor way project on the north end of town for a while yet. I generally agree with the concept but I think this might be a progressive MassDOT highway department thinking of doing highway "harm reduction".

...wait. Are they gonna finally make it 100% accessible?