The story about the new air right development on Mass Pike. It’s definitely exciting to see the wound made by car centric city planning tearing up dense urban neighborhoods get healed. To be fair, covering up a freeway doesn’t do anything reducing car dependency or helping with mass public transit. But it does help communities come together.
But do they ever do wind tunnel study about these big buildings? The construction site already creates huge wind tunnel on Mass Ave. there were a few times when I was cycling near there on Mass Ave and got almost blown away.
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/19/business/retail-back-bay-rivian/
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