Recent content by Longfellow

That would do it. I suppose sometimes the crowding of the lines kind of fools me

Posting this while stuck on the 69 bus in bumper to bumper traffic. Urban ring is provided for reference. Has this ever been proposed? I feel like if Cambridge were much denser this would be the perfect Manhattan-esque pair of spine routes (along with Red) for the city. You’d probably have to...

Will note that there is extant bus service between Dover Portsmouth and Durham by UNH. There’s also the COAST bus. My mom lived in Portsmouth and took the UNH bus to commute to school. There is or was a real demand for service, but those cities have become extremely suburbanized including Portsmouth

Am working on a cleanroom where we actually are venting like 40000 cfm of air through return panels in relatively small voids we are building around existing columns. No idea if that actually prevents grime buildup on the ceiling and obviously you’d a retrofit like that is not worth it or...

Good to know, I see people foaming over a Tobin bridge extension occasionally and that gets me excited too about the idea. But there’s probably much more sensible ways to do that lol

Weird question — the north station incline to science park is actually four tracks wide towards the bottom. There’s two tracks that appear to dip under but just end at a wall. Are those storage tracks or are they actually a provision for service points east?

Honestly while the decision is of course stupid and does endanger me personally as someone who bikes down one of these streets to commute I don’t find it surprising. Part of why I decided to stay in Boston after school was reading local Facebook groups from my hometown — I encourage other...

So they built the equivalent of a GLX in a couple weeks? /s

I agree that if we weren't going to get Byford it seems like he is the best we could get. Unfortunately NY transit people do not care about cost, they have the same blinders our guys do on that front. Maybe one day Transit Matters will see the light on cost disease and start pushing that... but...

These planks around planted trees, do ther actually work to hold it up? Seems so odd and I see it a lot

I suppose the pertinent question would be, two side running bus lanes on the bridge that merge into that narrow intersection over there probably don't do much for the slowness which is caused by the traffic in the area, and the lack of lanes, etc.. You'd want it to connect to something in my...

Hard to express how gigantic these guys are in real life. Huge improvement

Doubly depressing that we simultaneously see cost as impossible to tackle and also use it as a justification for not doing things. Someone should sit the wise Secretary in front of the Transit Costs report and ask her to summarize what it says. Truly infrastructure projects are just for...

Rather than encouraging/discouraging uses by limiting them directly let’s just use design guidelines instead. Residential? Any density, glass and steel if you want. Labs and offices? Well we don’t like those, so has to be masonry and you need cornices. Self storage, auto repair shops? Full blown...

More bikes than cars out today on Cambridge St in Cambridge. I was just in a queue of 10 bikes and we were all weaving cars parked in the bike lane. And to think they want to not have a lane on this road. (Note; not the one in Allston, or the one in Boston, or the one in Charlestown)