If the city restores the homeless programs on Long Island, they might have to shut them again for the Olympics

> Boston 2024 wants to use their docks for shooting spectators, volunteers and workers.

Rmind me NOT to get tickets for this.

nothing on the order of "bridge doesn't exist."

But when you're John Fish, you don't have to worry about the homeless. They don't have houses, so there's no construction.

Lots of other nuggets in that slick presentation (i.e. "Track 61 increases transit capacity" by routing DMUs across the entirety Northeast Corridor at grade; MBTA can somehow move Cabot bus yard, even though MBTA ops are constricted by the size of bus yards currently; long-term plan for the stadium site is a parking lot) to poke holes in, too.

docks for shooting spectators, volunteers and workers.

Sounds like they are going to stand there with guns and shoot at people :)

A planned beach-volleyball stadium and related structures on the Common!!?

I feel sick.

This is just sad. We're going to spend big bucks for the Olympics yet we still have homeless on our streets. We can't even built a fucking shelter to provide for our citizens, yet we have $ for this boondoggle. So fucking sad. Our priorities are messed.

It's pretty clear now what happened with the Long Island Bridge. Doesn't anyone find it funny that the homeless were moved out, bridge was closed, and now that place is part of Olympic bid? Come on, Marty we're not stupid. This was planned all along.

That island will never be a homeless shelter again. Mark my words. After the Olympics it will become something else that isn't related to the homeless shelter. ("Luxury Condos" anyone?)

It looks like many if not all the swimming categories take place in the Charles next to magazine beach in Cambridge. The river has improved considerably but to the point of hundreds of people swimming? Hope there isn't a big storm before the event. Don't forget to tell the athletes not to touch the bottom.

I've always wanted the North End to look like a scene from "Soylent Green"! You think they'll ship all of the homeless out to Amherst or Greenfield for the Olympics? Plenty of room out there.

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Like the perfectly good ones we have in South Boston and Revere?

Why wouldn't they just improve/use the range on Moon Island that BPD owns and uses for license qualifications?

As a resident of Quincy, I knew we were going to get tangled up in this somehow. I know, I know - Long Island is part of Boston, not Quincy - but they have to use our roads to get there.

If you've never been to Long Island or Squantum, the road that leads there is a lovely one that goes through a beautiful and quiet residential area. It's one lane each way.

No Quincy Olympics. Not even if Boston pays us to use our roads.

In a very quick reading yesterday, I started to get an idea of the number of MBTA facilities that will either need to be relocated or otherwise heavily impacted:

-Cabot Bus Garage (one of the larger ones on the system - As Ari noted above, the T currently can't add bus service due to the lack of garage space as it is.)
-Cabot Red Line shops and yard - can't tell if they'd be built over or removed.
-Southampton St Commuter Rail S&I Facility - also can't tell if it'll be decked over or forced to move. (If this goes, the closest maintenance facility to South Station ends up being Readville.)

-I would assume that the loop track stays put under the stadium - otherwise you can't operate the (highly disruptive) track 61 DMUs out to South Boston from Back Bay. That loop track is also important for Amtrak to turn trains during servicing (I'd assume that'll be important during the games, as the Northeast Corridor might be a key transportation link.)

-On the other side of town, part of the BMX complex near Assembly Sq will remove the MBTA's maintenance of way vehicle shop. This is somewhat more easily replaced, but currently it's located in a cluster of other MBTA facilities.

Since we don't see any costs discussed, my concern is whether the cost to replace all these facilities is included in the $4.7 billion price tag, or if this assumes that the state and MBTA will pick up the tab for all of this. To my knowledge, I don't think that these are really facilities that are in need of replacement - other than they'll be in the way of Olympic venues.

The maps in the bid document show the Green Line from Lechmere going to Union Square and Tufts ... but also a third branch that appears to go west along Cambridge Street towards Harvard Square? Where did that come from?