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    Biking in Boston

    yeah - like I mentioned - i think it's a function of being in a place where people are most concerned about "their time" being "money." A university town in Europe is going to have a larger contingent of people who are not under the capitalist pressure to produce. Meanwhile, places like here...
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    Biking in Boston

    Your response indicates that you do talk about Europe as monolithic. Italy, Hungary, and soon the Netherlands are now making their far-right turns, campaigning to raise speed limits, Trumpify their immigration system, and take a hard look at their urban transportation policy. Your anecdotes...
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    Biking in Boston

    Having been in other countries with varying degrees of bicycle infra - i don't think it's actually "driving culture" unique to Americans. The more capitalist that a place seems to be and the more active someone is within it, the more wild behaviour I've seen. As an example, in Amsterdam, don't...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    oh how about some south shore dinkies?
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    General Boston Discussion

    Was this not the project that was going to do work to repair things like this condition of the bridge support columns on the viaduct or this condition at Route 16 or finally make the repair at Roosevelt Circle?
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    1400 Boylston Street | Star Market & Gulf | Fenway

    I haven't seen many newly financed projects go into development since rates got jacked starting in Jan 2022. Most of the projects that have gone in seemed to have some sort of financing locked in before then. The 60 Kilmarnock seemed to have money flowing in late 2020 and early 2021. The tower...
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    Idyl Fenway | 60 Kilmarnock St | Fenway

    It's wild that I'm typing this - since I generally do not like gray on buildings, but, I kind of like how it contrasts with its surrounding buildings - both the traditional brick and contemporary midrise buildings.
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    Biking in Boston

    Non-food bike couriers are still around. But, Mess folks are much less common today tho than 15-20 years back. Like a lot of gig/service work, there's a huge spatial mismatch between where folks who can afford to work for that cheap live and where folks who want those kinds of services live...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Maybe more so tourists attempting to visit the campus of crimson rather than students themselves?
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    Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

    I suspect a lot of the early movers are actually doing this. Making small changes that allow compliance. But I also suspect they were already trying to deal with affordability through zoning already.
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    Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

    40B gives a good amount of control to localities/devolves power. MBTA Communities removes some key local controls - zone size, lowest unit density standard, age restrictions.
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    Multi-Family Zoning Requirements for MBTA Communities

    The freak-out is proportional to the perceived "loss" of "local control". To be honest, the amount of local control (to exclude) is one of the cardinal sins of the original colonist's forms of government.
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    Roads and Highways General Development Thread

    The person in the halls of power who understands this best just tried to make that point, but, got shut down hard by our fearless leader in the corner office. So...
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    Roads and Highways General Development Thread

    I don't think there's enough state money to do a mini arbor way project on the north end of town for a while yet. I generally agree with the concept but I think this might be a progressive MassDOT highway department thinking of doing highway "harm reduction".
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    MBTA Construction Projects

    ...wait. Are they gonna finally make it 100% accessible?
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    And the public utility agencies have got to be better at controlling these kind of changes if the states are certifying this for public transportation.
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    The current lack of new housing development is really all about the lack of affordable capital for larger scale of development. Now would be the time for the feds or state to come in a pump up the 100% affordable housing market with low interest loans, but, we are stuck with inaction.
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    AI Redraws Boston

    It's like New York, Tokyo, and Boston but not. MIT got super dense here tho.
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    Somerville Infill and Small Developments

    That is disappointing. Would at least like to see the permit and their submission!
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    I think rather @Koopzilla24 might be making a bit of a leap in the assumption of "never had an inventory". An inventory is always a snapshot (in time) and with the MBTA being the MBTA, I could definitely imagine that the PATI database is a snapshot fixed at 2017 and not updated regularly - since...

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