by Sean Roche | Sep 14, 2012 | Newton |
According to the TAB’s initial report*, “A 14-year-old male student riding a bicycle to school was hit by a car.” Not to pick on the departing Ms. Studley, but isn’t there a driver involved? Someone struck a schoolboy with his or her car....
by Sean Roche | Sep 14, 2012 | Newton |
Why is this made so complicated? There isn’t sufficient affordable housing in Newton because there is too little housing in Newton. Simple economics. Artifically created shortage leads to higher prices. Rather than add complicated regulatory solutions to a very...
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by Sean Roche | Sep 12, 2012 | Newton |
Rox Diner in Newtonville and Max and Leo’s in Newton Corner are the two latest Newton restaurants to get more seats, courtesy of the Board of Alderman. By ordinance, the number of seats have to correlate with the number of parking spaces the restaurant has, an...
by Sean Roche | Sep 12, 2012 | Newton
I’m not a huge fan of the Chestnut Hill Square development, now rising along Boylston St./Rte. 9, but my inner 5-year-old always gets a thrill when girders go up. It looks like the back building, which will house on its ground floor a 60,000 sq. ft. Wegmans, is...
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by Sean Roche | Sep 11, 2012 | Newton |
Reminder: public hearing on the developer’s special permit application tonight at City Hall. According to Alderman Ted, it’s late on the agenda. Having established that the proposed development on the site of Skipjacks/International Bicycles is generally...
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by Sean Roche | Sep 10, 2012 | Newton |
In the earlier post, I missed two positive things about the proposed development on the Skipjacks/IBC site. In an email response to some questions I had, the developer’s attorney pointed out that the building is much shallower than the typical building on...
by Sean Roche | Sep 7, 2012 | Newton |
Updated with final numbers. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it’s all over for tastefully named Republican house candidate Sean Bielat. With both competing in contested primaries, Democrat nominee Joe Kennedy III tallied 35,318Â 36,388...
by Sean Roche | Sep 6, 2012 | Newton |
All things being equal, on my bike I would rather be shot at from a moving vehicle than have someone in a moving car intentionally open a door on me*. A car aimed at a human being is a potentially lethal device. Imagine if a cyclist reported that someone in a car...
by Sean Roche | Sep 5, 2012 | Newton |
Updated: As Aldermen Ted notes in the comments, the public hearing on the developer’s special permit application is September, 11 at 7:00 PM in City Hall. It’s hard to describe how right is the proposed replacement for the Skipjacks/International Bike...
by Sean Roche | Sep 5, 2012 | Newton |
Following up on Adam’s introduction to the new Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon that will be popping up around the city, here’s an annotated video of the light in action on Parker St., south of Boylston St. (Rt. 9). On the video annotations, by “Pedestrian...
by Sean Roche | Jun 11, 2012 | Newton |
Regarding the parking/biking tradeoff on Walnut St., some have asked: why not both? Put on your traffic engineer hat. What would you do to accommodate bicycles on streets with legal, but light parking and insufficiently wide right-of-way to have both parking (you need...
by Sean Roche | Jun 7, 2012 | Newton |
Prompted by an interesting discussion about appraisals on my post about Jay Ciccione’s comments about on-street parking, I’ve come to the conclusion that I may have conceded too much regarding the impact on home values of removing on-street parking....
