Recent content by Stlin

As a regular terminal B parker, not that it actually does anything, it's the only garage where they make you open the trunk so they can see your luggage.

Out of curiosity, have you considered an alternate shading for the Charles/ other bodies of water, or adding their borders in a different line type? Looking at Rumney Marsh it's fairly clear, but around the Charles it's harder to tell what's bank and what's Memorial Drive. I know a lot of...

I have... Thoughts... About the flanking design of the addition. I get we're looking at a flat elevation and that it'll look different in 3 dimensions, but it looks like the original building is getting swallowed by a house monster.

Or, there's a middle ground. While PATI is definitely a fixed snapshot, looking at its data it didn't concern itself with much about the signs beyond does it exist and does it obstruct the accessible path. This project seems to care about the sign itself - does it still show accurate...

So having read the updates, a few notes. 1) think of the raised grove as sort of a deck. The old paving around the trees apparently was stressing the trees due to restricted soil volume, and constricting their root space, and this deck will evidently alleviate that so this is apparently mostly...

In the case of North Cambridge, or really Mass Ave from Harvard to Arlington center, I'd argue that the bigger obstacle is the fact that streets don't line up across Mass Ave. When they do it's usually not two streets you'd really want to make into a thru way. The exception to this is Cameron -...

If it helps, I've superimposed the two images. I assume the Springhouse is the round thing in the lower right.

Ermmm.... So I went and looked for the drawings they filed with BDPA. So if you look at this overhead aerial view, with the property limits superimposed, you can see that the line of trees you refer to as a "wall of vegetation" is wholly outside the boundaries of this site, and in fact the...

There's a few BRT systems out there with 14/15in boarding; I believe CTfastrak and Cleveland Healthline both are, and both operate similar NFI Xcelsiors to the MBTA. I know those are isolated subfleets, and may have mods to enable precision docking, but fundamentally are similar buses. At most...

I can't tell you which transit systems do so, but given that there's a entire section entitled "Contactless Transit Aggregated Transactions" in the Mastercard Rules (similar exist in Visa/Amex) it definitely happens. A Visa subsidiary has an API for that, which follows this flowchart, but in...

Castle Square is majority owned by its tenants, the Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO), and minority by Winn Developments. This manifests in databases as CSTO Winn Owner LLC. CSTO/Winn are also the current managers of the Eva White. In 2011 when Winn ceded majority control of the LLCs...

Not a private deal, the MBTA is explicitly part of the MA statewide contract for Electronic Payment Processing Services. If I've read the cost submittal correctly, every credit card transaction costs the T $0.0738 in processing fees, not including what the networks (Visa/Master Discover) charge...

So in China it's phrased as "priority carriages for women" - it is rarely enforced, but it's kinda like a quiet car - it depends on the traveling public to self police basically. Interestingly enough, At least in Shenzhen though, the women's carriages are primarily segregated by temperature...

I don't disagree, but that's a fundamental issue with the Title VI policy as currently formulated. The system allows you to include potential riders, but it fundamentally looks at what is, not what could be. The FTA allows you to do a title VI analysis by either population geography (minority...

For reference, these are the charts the T used last 2 times they did a Title VI analysis of the CR fare system. I can't find the full presentation anymore, but those high non-minority / non-low-income numbers are what catches the T every time on a Title VI equity analysis. (It did get quite a...