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life on and off the MBTA's number 1 bus route

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Mainely Burgers Softly Opens Today in Cambridge

It started as a food truck in Maine

Burgers from Maine in Central Square.  Not my first thought but we will investigate.

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Midnight, Friday at new brewery on Broadway.

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Cool new restaurant opens tonight at 5PM. Little Donkey from Ken Oringer and Jamie Bisonette.

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Chelsea's quirkiest parking.

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Corporate landscapers at work on Sidney St.

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The MBTA is altogether amazing.  Here’s an article that says there are basically no cash controls at the agency.  Does anyone visit these guys at their vacation homes or in retirement?

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Another example of the MBTA's strange in attentions to signage. You are at South Station. Here you can get the Silver Line to Dudley. Oh well.

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St. Anthony's in East Cambridge on a beautiful day.

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The Curmudgeon's Guide to the Red Line

All aboard!

Why limit yourself to the Red Line?  It probably functions better than any of the other lines.  There used to be two blogs about the MBTA.  One was called “Bad Transit.”  You get the idea.

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On top of Belmont Hill.

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MIT grad student does romantic photo shoot with his thesis - The Boston Globe

It’s hard to say good-bye — especially to a research project that you spent years working on.

A romantic view of leaving The Infinite Corridor.

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Metro sank into crisis despite decades of warnings

Red flags were raised about the transit system even before it opened.

When it opened in 1976, Washington’s Metro was modern and Harry Weese’s design vocabulary was great.  But the stations were too far apart and its been downhill since opening in 1976.

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Handsome signs near Msgr. Daly field in Brighton.

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Clover moves to former location of Yenching because of Holyoke Center renovations.

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Hallelujah, Formaggio's Barbecue Season Has Returned

It relaunched this weekend

If the MBTA wants to improve it should encourage what has spontaneously happened at two locations:  the bus stop in front of Juliet in Union Sq. Somerville and the bus stop on Huron Avenue in front of Formaggio.  Both places are urbane happy spaces.

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LRB · Jackson Lears · Capitalism’s Capital: The Man Who Built New York

Robert Moses was a modernist pharaoh. Over the forty years from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, he became a virtual dictator of public works in all five boroughs of New York and much of its suburban surroundings. Almost singlehandedly, through chicanery, fraud and bullying, he created . . .

At first I wondered why the excellent London  Review of Books would publish a review or reappraisal of a book so lavishly praised upon publication.  But I too have the feeling that what seemed like the new common sense for urbanism has been replaced by a giddy celebration of the plutocracy.