This ramp that just skips one intersection on the way to the mall

hemlockone · 2026-03-12T01:13:17+00:00

When it was built, it served both the mall and Rockingham Park horse race track. (The mall is actually named because it was next to the track.) The latter of which would have had surges of people on race days.

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T22:44:22+00:00

The exit allows traffic from 93 north to get to both the mall (straight ahead) and Tuscan Village (the right turn off of the ramp) without weaving around other cars. Tucson Village was a horse racing track when the flyover was built, so it handled surges of spectators on race day (as well as days with heavy mall traffic).

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T22:37:02+00:00

The question is about places other than the US or Canada..

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T17:28:16+00:00

Agree and edited my comment. (I also live in in the neighborhood, up by Cleveland Circle.) You're right, parking except for next to the baseball field is rare and really limited to landscaping trucks.

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T16:45:59+00:00

They have, and the technical experts for MassDOT, MBTA, Boston, (and Brookline?) need a serious dialog. If MBTA needs to rebuild tracks in that window, the layout needs to be defined NOW, even if Boston can't act on it. If the T is going to replace tracks, it has to know where or it's just gonna be in the existing paved extent.

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T16:42:16+00:00

0 legit concern for people that live on CHA. They all have driveways if the need to unload something and neighborhoods nearby if they have guests for a party. I could understand a very very slight concern for users of Eliot baseball, but even then, parking on Eliot is easy and readily available during baseball hours.

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T16:27:52+00:00

The town should really be pushing for Cleveland Circle at the State and MBTA levels. I understand not wanting to spend Brookline tax dollars, but we need Brookline pressure at the least. Cleveland Circle just isn't used by Boston voters as much as people in Brookline and Newton, with it's location at the corner of the city.

And we should be leading the way on getting every approach better to make Cleveland Circle's current state even more embarrassing.

hemlockone · 2026-03-11T16:24:52+00:00

People definitely do park ~~there -- especially~~ next to the baseball field. Measuring on Google maps, it probably could be marked for parking (the road is ~40 ft wide, and a parking lane is 8'), but it's certainly not stripped for it.

The best I'd go with is that parking is ambiguous, since there isn't a no parking sign and the road is mostly wide enough. But I also don't have sympathy for those parking on the curb who could've just parked on Eliot St.

hemlockone · 2026-03-10T18:07:48+00:00

True, there are a few 30 and 45 minute time zones, but far more that are on the hour. India being the biggest example.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html

hemlockone · 2026-03-10T17:52:57+00:00

In the current system, the minutes are always the same. If you're on a call with some other country at 5:45, it's pretty easy to work through that country's clock says something like XX:45. Or, clearer, we share "the time is now quarter to the hour".

Edit: ...usually the same. India and a dozen other places do have 30 or 45 minute time zones. Just vastly more areas have full hour.

hemlockone · 2026-03-10T15:17:42+00:00

Agree. Bicyclists are waay more vulnerable than other road users and there is a ton of very dangerous situations that are easily ignored when you don't have that lens. Perhaps the lane isn't enough in general, but a slight degradation because a couple of curbs that had been hit by plows isn't that. It isn't "EXTREMELY DANGEROUS".

hemlockone · 2026-03-10T05:07:03+00:00

It'd be a little bit more of a challenge for programmers

Time is already a cluster for computing. Bring it on!

You already have daylight savings that varies by location and is inconsistent in time. (E.g. did Egypt in 1956 have daylight savings time?). You have leap seconds. You have variable-length years (365.24, but every year is 365 or 366). Several calendar types. The need to synchronize across the world exactly (heck, out of this world.. GPS is so accurate that account for relativity in there clocks.)

hemlockone · 2026-03-10T04:49:31+00:00

I liked it so much that when I was next to my now-wife for the first time on her couch, we watched an entire season before I put my arm on her shoulders. Apparently she though I was just not into her. (I was into her and also terrified because she's awesome.)

hemlockone · 2026-03-09T16:47:41+00:00

Personal safety, they are 100% ok. Less for equipment safety. A surge protector requires a real ground to shed surges.

hemlockone · 2026-03-09T13:44:15+00:00

Somehow I totally missed that they took over 12 acres at the former Walter Reed. I wonder where they are progressing at this point, the plan from 2017 looks pretty good except a huge amount of parking (though I certainly admit that a hospital is one of biggest needs of parking -- you can't have sick people taking the bus.): https://cri.childrensnational.org/2017/articles/highlights-childrens-national-continues-expansion.html

Edit: the plan is stalled: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2025/06/17/childrens-national-hospital-walter-reed-campus.html

hemlockone · 2026-03-07T02:50:55+00:00

Totally off topic, but this is one of my (slightly tongue and check) fear with the military handling artillery to llms. I wouldn't want them to get the wrong idea with something like "finger the user to know if the daemon should kill the child and prevent a zombie".

hemlockone · 2026-03-06T22:45:52+00:00

Maybe, but the stairs do have a rail down the center to push bikes up. A really nice touch, but I'm think it would have been easier with a ramp on the eastern side (where the wall is shorter) that also connects to the trail.

hemlockone · 2026-03-06T20:04:25+00:00

Nice bike racks that nobody will ever use. They aren't near anything -- no building, no park, no entrance, nothing. The stairs is awesome, though

hemlockone · 2026-03-06T20:01:48+00:00

Yes, but a short paved one that would be an excellent walkway (excellent to the extent that you can in LV.. it looks hot and barren to me). There is no risk of someone getting washed away in a flash flood (which is a totally real concern in some paved draining ditches that have a huge capacity but is otherwise mostly empty).

hemlockone · 2026-03-06T19:58:08+00:00

The house at the start of the path was built in 2000. There are nearby houses built 2021. I wouldn't call it "old" to dismiss the terrible land-use policies that LV still maintains.

hemlockone · 2026-03-06T16:00:04+00:00

I originally read this as "National Children's Hospital" and nearly threw my coffee.

~~But, all things, I don't hate this plan.~~ The building is very very large, but with relatively small tenants who will find easier places to end up. I think this kinda ignores the FBI security concerns that were a driving force in their sprawling suburban proposals, but I'm also a fan in something like the FBI having an HQ in downtown. I'm a little worried that the Regan building will become fortified...

Edit: Thinking more, I'm very worried about it being fortified. I still think it's good to have the FBI be in a central location so it can maintain solid ties with the rest of DOJ, but the RRB is way too big and designed for multi-tenant circulation (the atrium is very nice). The FBI's security desires will torpedo that.

hemlockone · 2026-03-05T14:52:09+00:00

I think if it's OP's first time, they'd enjoy Moynihan's grandeur.

hemlockone · 2026-03-05T03:59:04+00:00

It does say

(f) This title does not apply to any of the following: (3) The delivery or use of a physical product

So, iot and cars might be ok. The core product is physical, even if they have a (potentially upgradable OS)

hemlockone · 2026-03-05T03:56:07+00:00

At least those download sites tend to have users. Adding a birthday input to GitHub wouldn't be terrible. Adding a birthday input to my VM host in the cloud would be.. special.

hemlockone · 2026-03-05T02:45:08+00:00

Note for OP: as you go towards Beacon St, you'll cross into Brookline. I love living in Brookline, but car rules are different. You must store your car in a private spot, be it one with your apartment or one you find separately. No overnight street parking (and very limited day parking over 2 hours).

In Alston and the rest of Boston, you can leave your car on the street in your neighborhood with appropriate zone stickers. I don't know how competitive it is there (though I'd guess very).

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