Move in, people, help is on the way

by David | Apr 23, 2013 | culture, design, science!, transportation, urbanism

This just in from Gothamist: reconfiguring the layout of subway car seats might give the cars greater effective capacity with the same number of seats. The thinking is that there are certain behaviors that lead to inefficient packing of subway cars, mainly...

Three things you can count on in the South End

by David | Apr 11, 2013 | eating, media, transportation, urbanism

Great food, such as this plate of paper-thin finocchiona and chunks of pecorino tartufo with some pickled veggies at Cinquecento. Great art, such as Replicant Hybrid by Julia Csekö, on view at Laconia Gallery. Great public trasnit amenities, such as this self-serve...

All in all, it's just some paste on a wall

by David | Apr 5, 2013 | culture, design, transportation, urbanism

Some days you can watch The Wiz of Oz while waiting. Dark side of the T. H/T to @wdipilato for pointing this out and glossing it for me.

Subway skills

by David | Apr 4, 2013 | culture, transportation, urbanism

You people wouldn’t last a minute in Tokyo. Step in means STEP IN.

Elevator to ouch

by David | Apr 2, 2013 | photo, transportation

Cold morning sunlight Gives no warmth but burns the eye Early Boston spring

The law of Boston infrastructure: build five to keep four

by David | Dec 10, 2012 | design, transportation, urbanism

Staring at the MBTA map and letting my mind wander while waiting for the train, I noticed a repeated pattern of 4/5. There were five Green line branches, but only four survive today with the obvious gap at the start of the sequence B, C, D, E.  I guess if the E line...