WASTELAND
I was checking out the excellent pixel art of
Eboy featuring excellent pixel represenations of cities and concepts and came upon a
design he did for Boston Magazine
for an article byPhil Primack entitled The Waste Land (which i can't find on their wesbite).
The article talks about the proposed Greenway plan for the Big Dig. Here is an
article which may be the one in question (at a different site).
NORTH STATION SUCKS TOO:
Not realizing that Boston Magazine had any useful articles, I checked out if this article was available online (its not as far as i can search), in the process finding another Primack article about why
MBTA's North Station is so awful. A part of it is the obvious: its being in the FleetCenter/TD BankNorth Garden. The current North Station was supposed to be temporary.
(an aside here to point out that the 'A' line of the Green Line of the T being suspended was "temporary" in the 50's, the 'E' line being cut off at Heath St was "temporary" in the 80's)
The article is
Dysfunction Junction. from September 2002 and yet still accurate (not entirely sure about the water fountain).
"Bob Egan, the MBTA's project director for North Station, says he didn't assume his post until 1999 and doesn't know the details of the original agreements or, for example, why there's not a single water fountain in the entire station."
