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They posted a render as part of the Feb board slides. Looks like they'll be filling in 4 floors between the pylons, then eventually moving on to the upper floors.

I bet the social media person typed West Medford first, then didn't hit backspace enough

Isn't at least the first half of that basically a prerequisite of any state funded road project these days, what with Complete Streets, safe routes to school, etc? Also, at least here in MA I'd argue that a decent chunk of our suburban towns, unlike places further west, have good walkable town...

Unless I'm mistaken, that site got its initial approvals in May 2022, before Cambridge eliminated all parking minimums citywide in November 2022. Keep in mind that the memo notes that the CX permitting process related to parking started way back in ~2015. Consequently, when first permitted, it...

The T's board meeting described it in one sentence as "consolidating operations out of leased spaces at a more efficient cost." I was skeptical of them needing 150,000 sqft until I looked at their payroll - Assuming that only members of the exec main fund, TEA and L105/L453 folks need desks...

I was out at Cleanpower 2024 in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago and sat in on a talk about this. the big thing with Li-ion BESS is that it's apparently actually better at being packaged and at handling the cycle loads of a grid application than Lead Acid, and combined with the existing R&D and...

The full list is as follows: B-branch: Chestnut Hill, Chiswick Road, Packard's Corner, South Street, and Sutherland Road C-Branch: Brandon Hall, Dean Road, Englewood Avenue, Fairbanks Street, Hawes Street, Kent Street, Saint Paul Street, Summit Avenue, and Tappan Street Per the FTA...

Well, since we're doing it, here's a rare vantage point of the Hurley Building!

Presentation here; I know it says see appendix on the slide, but this slide is *from* the appendix. Keep in mind the state fiscal year runs July 1-June 30; FY24 ends in less than 5 weeks - I'd expect to see fare revenues in line with FY23 if not lower because of all the shutdowns.

Actually, a question, albeit specific to the green line. Why did they decide to go with pay/tap-on-board in the first place? I've been on some systems like San Diego MTS, Seattle Link and Portland Tri-met where all validators are on platforms, and stepping on board the train / being in the...

I know it's not exactly a CR high platform, but GLX East Somerville would seem to be the obvious counterpoint.

The T helpfully included a slide on this in its preliminary budget presentation! In short, only about 42% of the Ts revenue came from monthly passes of all sorts in 2023.

Chelsea is the obvious example that comes to mind, but even that cost the T some 33 million in 2019 dollars. Granted, that one had non standard elements in the form of molded concrete shelters, but still. And while probably a new build at the time, I think Brockton also has access via a track...

This board presentation was seemingly purely about the technical financial terms of the contract; very little was included about the operations and policy being envisioned. The T did note that the rollout is being timed to coincide with the summer schedule release, so I would expect to hear more...

One of the things the MBTA Board talked about in its meeting yesterday, but which didn't get a lot of attention, is that apparently they've decided that the Alewife garage will need to come down in the near future, and in doing so wants to redevelop the site into "more than a garage." This isn't...