Recent content by JeffDowntown

Totally on point -- rugged individualism virtually always wins out in America over collective considerations. That is a big part of why most of the world see Americans as assholes -- we are.

I still see a lot of aggressive or bad behavior among cyclists in Boston. A few from just yesterday: Cyclist riding aggressively through pedestrians inside the State Orange Line Station (yes, in the station!). 2 cyclists riding the wrong way in the bike lanes on Columbus Avenue. (I was...

It is almost like we need a curb access fee, tied to the app driven demand. Basically every curb stop (or stop in mid-street for the scofflaws) incurs an extra fee added to the price of the delivery. Fee for each pickup, fee for the drop. Curb space is very valuable in an urban setting, and...

That might reduce demand, but it still does not align delivery driver behavior with good, shared use of curb space.

Given the length of these closures, I suspect the logic is that a full closure is more disruptive than the slow zones, when you have the students around.

That is certainly a major historical streetcar corridor, serviced from the Pleasant Street Portal on the pre-Green-Line (back when Broadway connected through to Bay Village).

Air suspension systems on buses have had "kneeling" capabilities for several decades. It is hardly "unproven tech".

The challenge with restricting left turns in much of those corridors is the street "grid" (using the term very loosely) does not accommodate a right, right, right alternative for the left turn. It becomes a "you can't get there from here" exercise. Each left turn would have to be examined...

As of rights you get 70 ft. height, multi-family residential (which means some neighborhood ground floor businesses.)

My understanding about OMNY, though, it the cap system actually increases the number of discrete credit card transactions. What used to be a once per month pass transaction becomes a series of discrete ride transactions up to the cap. That is a ton more discrete CC transactions being processed...

Contactless is apparently costing NYC a ton of fare revenue. Don't be surprised if the financial services folks pulled a fast one here. They are much better than the T at these scams.

Does anyone know how the T is going to make up for all the credit card transaction fees that the contactless payment will cost them. Moving to a system where every ride is a separate CC transaction is a huge boon to the credit card processing companies (and a huge loss in revenue to the T).

Check out the zoning for the area, completed in the Harrison Albany planning effort a decade ago. Castle Square area is specifically step-down zoning to heights appropriate to start to match South End row houses. You are not building Ink Block height structures here without a big fight.

If only they had a real last mile solution in LA. Then it would be a true HSR solution.

For CR idling noise, isn't the solution electrify the lines? We hear that complaint a lot here on the North Shore when they short turn the Newburyport and Rockport lines for track and signal work -- extended idling in locations that normally don't experience it (like Swampscott).