Recent content by Smuttynose

Burlington has a traffic problem because it decided to let developers build 10,000 offices without allowing any significant residential opportunities. Those workers have to come from somewhere and most of them aren’t coming from Burlington and as you noted they’re not taking transit. So the...

Good for Scituate. From the Google aerials/streetview, there is a nice new 4-story multi-family (maybe mixed-use?) development directly across the street from the train station. But there is also a fair amount of less transit-oriented development surrounding the train station - small shopping...

These are the parcels that Burlington is rezoning to comply with the MBTA Zoning requirement. Burlington has a similar mandate (to allow for as many units) as Marshfield. Of the five areas proposed for rezoning four of the five include apartments that were recently constructed. Only one, near...

It's amazing to me that this is a $17 million project. Is there anything really new here, besides some added trees and tables/chairs? Even the fountain will be 'renovated' and not new. Yes, they are shifting some hardscape and grassy areas and adding some pedestrian paths, but none of that would...

From a few different city perspectives —

Su Surprised there is not a bus linking Charlestown, and specifically Community College OL stop (and to a lesser extent Lechmere area of GL) to Kendall Square. Didn’t see anything in BNR either. It’s technically walkable, but it’s a long walk (30+ minutes from Community College) and it’s a...

I understand the sentiment, but I think there's been such a groundswell and reckoning against projects like the West End and Scollay Square that we've gone a bit too far the other way. We can't actually change anything. So when the City commissions a plan for Government Center - it is branded as...

This facade is very moody - very dark when rainy or overcast but lightens up nicely when the sun is out —

We have a crane!

I don’t think there is any relief in sight for weekend Orange Line frequencies — I think only some increases in weekday service are planned. My experience is that the 20 minutes-ish headways on Sundays is pretty average. Can’t we do a little better?

The main public plaza at Commonwealth Pier will enjoy one of the best views of this building —

4-21-24

'Skyline-LOW District" seems like a bit of a misnomer.

I love that this project did not mess with the stretch of neighborhood businesses in the cool one-story building fronting Peterborough—

I think you have to look at Lowell firmly through the lens of a Gateway City. It has a significant low income and socially vulnerable population and always will. It is outside the inner Boston metro area. It will never be Cambridge or Portland, ME, for example. But in the context of Gateway...