Recent content by Longfellow

I’ve emailed mass dot. Will post reply in a month or two when I get it

Blue bikes have advantage of already being rolled out everywhere. If these bikes were good I would use them, but I can’t commute just to take one.

This seems bad enough that she should go on the record for A) what she meant by this and B) why international best practices don't count

I have pretty strong opinions on this topic -- I would say in general, that car delivered food is in general wasteful and harmful in metro Boston. When zero interest rate policy allowed these companies to hemorrhage billions with loss leading prices, they addicted upper class professionals to...

https://archboston.com/community/threads/northern-avenue-bridge-fort-point-channel.2971/page-24#post-449660 f you asked me they should build it wider and put buildings on either side of it all the way across :)

Certainly I am a big pro housing guy as I think we all are. It's fine to build any type of housing, we need it. Though I think the fact that you or I can't afford to live there is always gonna be an elephant in the room for this type of discussion. It will always be a -1 I think.

That does remind me. My friend sent me this video — and I normally would shrug it off but he’s a bit of a conservative so it’s interesting he agreed with this sentiment: Overall I find it hard to argue with. The seaport lacks cheap housing, trolleys and trains, nice brick buildings with ivy...

I think someone was saying earlier the road grade is not compatible with rail. Could be wrong

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...