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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: Bike lanes and priority bike lanes, what's the difference?
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Bike lanes and priority bike lanes, what's the difference? In practical terms, though, one might ask: what's the difference? The difference boils down to whether the outside, left edge of the bike lane is solid or dashed. That's it. Where parking is currently allowed, but rarely used, the priority bike lane should be superior to the striped shoulder. It should be just as effective at keeping cars in the...
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: B Street B Racks
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. B Street B Racks. Updated: According to Aldercritter Hess-Mahan in the comments. Beacon Street only reimbursed the city for installation and that the cost was covered by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Makes the condition a little more palatable. As attentive readers may recall, as part of the absolutely correct decision to grant B Street. Then Pie) a parking waiver, the Land Use committee. Pleas...
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: Brookline and Red Sox parking, cont.
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Monday, July 19, 2010. Brookline and Red Sox parking, cont. Brookline is going to use meter rates to discourage on-street parking for Sox games, or profit from it. When the rate for parking is too low, you get bad parking (Fenway patrons, not local business customers) and you lose a revenue opportunity. If it costs more than 20 bucks to park in a private garage for the game, why shouldn't be 20 bucks to park on the street? Garden ...
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: The right orientation on Boylston Street
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. The right orientation on Boylston Street. Encouraging news on the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center front: the developer intends to re-orient the buildings to engage Boylston Street. It’s a project that in certain respects has its back to Boylston Street, and we’re going to turn it into a project that has its back on no one. It's a shame that NED didn't have the same attitude a block away. Posted by Sean Roche.
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: Maryland hand-me-downs
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Thursday, March 24, 2011. What a stunning denunciation of the state of our transit system that we are leasing trains from Maryland. Just to keep things afloat. Maryland's investment in its system is so much better than ours that their surplus markedly upgrades our regular fleet. Really, really deplorable. Posted by Sean Roche. Their investment is better than ours? Protip: Try riding a train on the weekend. Just do the job? And if ...
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: high weekday occupancy at auburndale commuter rail parking lot
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Thursday, July 11, 2013. High weekday occupancy at auburndale commuter rail parking lot. 85% occupancy, thursday, july 11, 915am. 28 of 33 non-handicapped spaces occupied. A big improvement in usage from previous observations a year ago! This may bode well for the future parking at the new mbta lot. Posted by Nathan Phillips. January 29, 2014 at 12:19:00 PM EST. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Garden City - Community Blog.
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: High-speed rail and walking to a village
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Friday, March 18, 2011. High-speed rail and walking to a village. One of the key arguments in favor of inter-city rail is that it will improve opportunities for air travelers. Last year, nearly a million people flew between Logan and JFK or LaGuardia. If you want more and better air travel choices, encourage rail improvements to remove congestion from airports. The larger point is that mobility options are not anti-car (or anti-ai...
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: Parking Glut at Riverside
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Thursday, March 29, 2012. Parking Glut at Riverside. Here was the scene at Riverside today (Thursday) at 10:15AM - when we expect maximum weekday commuter parking. Lest you think I am cherry picking, below are a few more views:. Posted by Nathan Phillips. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Newton Bicycle/Pedestrian Task Force. Garden City - Community Blog. Friends of Newton Centre. PedNet (Columbia, MO). Subscribe in a reader.
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks: March 2012
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks. Companion Newton Streets and Sidewalks Wiki. Friday, March 30, 2012. 1065 Empty Parking Spaces at Riverside during Peak Business Hours. I counted them by eye, Friday AM, 10:15-10:45. MBTA Lot: 490 Empty spaces. Riverside Center: 441 Empty spaces. Indigo Hotel: 134 Empty spaces (and only 72 occupied, for a dismal 35% occupancy). Another way to look at this: 192,000 square feet of wasted space (actually, worse: 192,000 sq. ft of impervious urban heat island). These photos made...
