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In the Boston of the future, some things will remain the same - including Red Line cars, just a little rustier
By adamg on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:40am
A new show called Orphan Black: Echoes, which is just like "Orphan Black," only sideways, is set in Boston in 2052, as Brad Searles discovered.
And as you can see from this screenshot from one of the trailers downtown and Beacon Hill will look a tad different in 28 years, so get cracking, developers. But the Red Line will always be the Red Line, even if now a bit rusty on top.
The New England building on Boylston will still be there, as will the Hancock, which will, however, be overshadowed by something that looks like a series of giant pop tops:
Kenmore Square will also be filled with giant swervy sex toys, but, whoops, they left out the giant WHOOP air beacon.
All those new buildings will, of course, require new schools for all the future kids, such as Thomas M. Menino High School:
Compare to:
Boston gets destroyed by monsters.
Boston gets destroyed in a nuclear war.
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lol
I give them credit for these skyline views. Looks like they actually did a little bit of homework to figure out where to put the fake high rises. The pic of the Copley Sq area is spot on compared to whats in those locations today, which is nothing, a parking garage, or the pike.
Also LOL at Thomas M Menino High School LOL
I don't get it.
Are you saying that right now there _isn't_ a Thomas M. Menino High School? That would be a shock.
So nice to see ...
A full 2 lanes of traffic on the inbound side of the Longfellow! That's a world I want to live in.
but
But we have those today.
I just checked Google Maps to make sure. Unless it changed recently.
It was down to 1 lane..
2 weeks ago, with lots of green paint and them expands back to 2 lanes at the circle
Echoing ↑
Yah, there's zero difference between the fictional show teaser pic and today's reality.
3 lanes. 2 inbound, 1 outbound.
Is Boston Common safe in this
Is Boston Common safe in this fiction?
I wonder
I wonder if in this fiction there's some dude who writes on a local news website under the comments section playing the peanut gallery in 2058.
Acknowledged immortality of
Acknowledged immortality of Red Line trains, built by a race of giants in a previous age.
Mandatory floaties for schoolkids?
Oyster farming in the Back Bay?
Logan is a submarine base, giving us Saugus International Airport?
And back to just one road in and out of downtown, the Dawes Horseway.
Immortality is right
In this fantasy they're the same hodgepodge of Red Line cars we have today, with the T still waiting for the fourth CRRC set to be delivered from Springfield.
So many labs...
Pretty sure that's all vacant lab space - no schools required, just tax deductions.
I see the FAA height limits
I see the FAA height limits will be gone by then, which is great news! Do they build a new airport further away, or are fixed-wing aircraft phased out for something that doesn't need runways?
Height limits
Fall away pretty quickly as you move away from the harbor.
The original plans for a skyscraper in Winthrop Square called for an 80-story building, the Tommy Tower. See a couple of renderings (one in exciting Mooninite-vision).
I'm more concerned about all the skyscrapers extending into the South End. Columbus Avenue will never be the same.
What?
STILL no flying cars? What the hell.
In this town? Possibly for
In this town? Possibly for the best.
Drivers around here can’t
Drivers around here can’t handle left and right, what makes you think they could manage up and down as well?
We know they can't
We know they can't handle up and down.
Today's example:
https://www.universalhub.com/2024/todays-most-embarassing-storrowing-dri...
Robots be doing the driving
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It's a shame...
That they didn't see fit to actually film this in Boston.
Possibly because ...
All the good spaces were already filled by productions using Boston as a fill-in for New York.
So, what's the fill-in for Boston?
Providence, maybe?
Toronto or Montreal. No
Toronto or Montreal. No joking.