Recent content by sneijder

Is there ever a world where we can repurpose one (say the NB) of the Central Artery tunnels to use as a quad-track NSRL and keeping the other tunnel as I-93 with two lanes in either direction? Since the I93 NB tunnel passes right under south station (to the west) and the "north station under"...

and also make the center-running lanes GL + bus-only. When I was playing around with streetmix I was having trouble squeezing that with sidewalks into the 55' ROW, unless you made the sidewalk or travel lanes really narrow.

For the love of all that is holy, we need repaving before any lanes are installed. There is some attrocious pavement on Boylston and Dartmouth St (and Beacon) which is unrideable without a full-suspension mountain bike.

I can't help but ogle at all the perfect bike infrastructure coming with this project. Feels like Cambridge is the only place that always gets the designs right when there's a full re-construction.

I happen to live right above this site so can share pics as it gets going..

This shouldn't affect the projects that are already in progress right (Mass ave from harvard to arlington border), River St, etc? Just delays the main st, cambridge st, and broadway implementations. Obviously a big loss still.

Thinking about it now, the hub-and-spoke terminal design (which is similar to a lot of US airports) is purely a SOV-centric design, with the parking garage in the center. It's designed so that people parking can reach the entire airport in a reasonable walk. Imagine we replace that with a...

I wish we had more LEX's within 128 as the MBTA connections are underwhelming. At least they seem to be prioritizing bus travel and it needs some sort of queue jump to get into the Ted Williams during the upcoming tunnel closure. I could see LEX getting good ridership from Harvard Square...

It's so silly this is a reasonable justification for local road design. Just look at the 6-lane surface road on top of the central artery, which was "sized appropriately to avoid back-ups on the highway". Don't need to worry about the surface road clogging up the highway when the highway itself...

When the design considerations prioritize moving car traffic over anything else (i.e. see the latest Cambridge St study), you're left with these important gaps at key intersections and busier stretches of road..where protection/separation is ironically needed the most. I have faith that Mayor Wu...

It seems super backwards that the Cape FLYer isn't getting any funding from this new bill. With even half of that money there could be substantial double tracking and expansion to 1tph for a lot of the year.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/26/mayor-wu-announces-2024-open-streets-schedule-with-expansion-to-hyde-park What other areas are low hanging fruit to be pedestrianized and closed to cars with limited traffic impact? Right off the bat there's the Copley Connect block on Dartmouth St, all...

They might be also looking at this in terms of ridership. The Red Line carries almost as many passengers as the entire bus system, so every minute saved there is many times more valuable in total commuter hours saved than a single bus line. Of course there are some socioeconomic equity concerns...

This is not something where you can just "let the free market work it out" - see France's outright ban on routes < 2.5hrs by train. But the unfortunate reality is that the Acela isn't quite fast enough to capture full market share of the route (some business/leisure travelers still prefer the...

It's amazing the consistency in high design standards each time a full reconstruction is done in Cambridge. See River St, Inman Sq, Lechmere redesign, Broadway/Gallileo intersection, Harvard Square reconstruction plans, etc. Cambridge is going to look like a very different place by 2026.