@westinma.bsky.social
Affordable housing, planning, infrastructure, and assorted other obsessions. “inma” in the username signifies I am in Massachusetts and have been here long enough to qualify as a Masshole.
One of my responses seems to have vanished: yes, the green line with be running in the summer
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Also, the closest stop to Fenway Park is Kenmore Station, not Fenway Station. Confusing, welcome to Boston. there’s four green line branches, all in the same tunnel downtown, but branch out west of either Copley (E splits off) or Kenmore (B,C, and D diverge) (there’s no A).
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Oh, for summer you’ll be fine, they’ll be done. someone noted Coolidge Corner - good idea, fun area for little kids. The Commonwealth is super close to Fenway but the CC places will be cheaper. Be sure to note the different branches of Green Line that your hotel is on, wherever you end up.
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If you’re coming between now and Dec 22, try to book a room within walking distance, because the Green Line will be shut down for that stretch. That means the T - usually the best way to/from Fenway —will not work. Don‘t even think about driving to/from Fenway, it’ll drive you mad.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Thanks for posting this
May 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you get the chance, could you link to whichever site you got this from? For those of us with CFPRO (compulsive floor plan review obsession). Thx
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Richard Cromwell
February 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My wife also shares Dump’s birthday, and she is well and truly pissed off about it.
February 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
December 1, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut:

I’m Nevets, one of those weird little connector thingies; at the end of every project you have either three too many of me (yay) or one too few (arrrgggh).
November 29, 2024 at 2:16 AM
LOTS of eco-research in NE on this theme that’d be of use to the Europeans. (Guardian writer probably knows this and it just didn’t get into the article.). Any walk in the New England woods reveals ample evidence of this history - iconic stone walls, bldg foundations, etc.
November 28, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Great article. Precedent in the New England region of the US. Huge land clearing (>80% of all land) prior to 1860s, followed by huge farm abandonment (~50-ish% of all land) in the next 80-ish years. Some sprawl re-encroachment since, but most of the previously abandoned land is still forested.
November 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
The Blue Book breaks down both by line and by station
September 14, 2024 at 10:01 PM
MBTA maintains a pretty thorough data site, called the Blue Book. Breaks it down by mode if you want bus and ferry too (I did note you specified RR so maybe you don’t):

mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com
MBTA Blue Book Open Data Portal
Discover, analyze and download data from MBTA Blue Book Open Data Portal. Download in CSV, KML, Zip, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF or PNG. Find API links for GeoServices, WMS, and WFS. Analyze with charts and them...
mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com
September 14, 2024 at 9:59 PM