Recent content by jbray

Isn't that already the user base though? They expect a heavy increase from functionally the only group that specifically depends on the T as their mode. I agree with @KCasiglio on this one being a stretch.

Came here for my undergrad in 2009 and never left. I was a long-time lurker here either due to being a genuine lurker or later by necessity when Briv was in absentia. I've lived in Cambridge, JP, Quincy, and Somerville before settling where I am now in South Medford. Given that I know that a...

A user on Reddit is claiming that the public meeting revealed that there will be no provision for future expansion of the blue line as part of the build. The claim is that the cut and cover tunnel is not able to be waterproofed to the necessity required for either expansion and a deep bore...

The problem here is that these two points converge into illogical thinking. The removal of a parking or driving lane means less room for cars and not using a car is seen as "out of touch with reality". So now, from their perspective, people out of touch with reality are going around and making...

The problem (from anecdotal experience, mind) is that the geometric argument also isn't readily accepted. While I've had more success in saying that, "Only 359 cyclists removes a mile of traffic (laid end to end with no spacing even) and 359 people in a city of 654,000/117,000/80,000/etc. is...

Though I know it's incredibly impractical to the point of unfeasible, I often wonder if the US should bring back narrow gauge for rail trail politics. If we can double track meter or 3ft gauge and still have trail width, is that worth it in the short term to over come the politics of losing the...

I really appreciate what you are all doing but I fear I've been misunderstood. In the sandbagged 2018 study (pg. 63 onward is where we're looking), upstream investments account for $1.32 Billion and Electric trains account for an additional $2.44 Billion which leaves $17.73 billion remaining...

Agreed. TBM issue aside (theoretically could you dig out the station and leave the tbm in place to dig the tunnel later? I would assume not because by the time political, financial, and logistical will is in action to finish the job it probably wouldn't be usable). My question was not about...

Could we break it up into smaller pieces to get smaller levels of federal funding? Say electrification of the network comes with a "South Station Under" That just happens to be in the correct spot with the portals correctly built all for NSRL?

This will be the way out. In the UK they are moving from Townhouses and semi-detached housing (duplexes, triple-deckers, and quadplexes) into higher density as their space requires and we are moving toward more townhouses and semi-detached housing as our space requires. The question is whether...

I personally don't take that hardline stance, but I fully understand it. The egalitarian utopia of people having their own personal space is offset when they clear cut natural vegetation and replace it with monocultures (usually eliminating most/all tree cover and/or replacing it with non-native...

This is one of the big challenges of our generation: convincing a large swath of society that grew up in a single family home with a yard to make a concession on square footage, privacy, and control of a green space because all of those things are collectively unsustainable (climate, municipal...

@Tallguy this is a terrible example to make your point. The double tracking of the rapid transit lines through the city center is almost a daily issue (certainly a weekly one) when the trains break down and service stops until they can clear away the disabled train(s). This issue has been...

It has been my understanding that Readville is necessary for the Grand Junction to move off of the CR network. More than that, it's not like a full-fledged push for Regional rail is going to diminish the need to use diesels in the interim while catenary goes up from end to end. This is...

Where would you put them, in the lane? Medford/Tufts is three lanes so you could feasibly have single direction stop without eminent domain from Tufts but Broadway at Ball lost the four lane bridge in the GLX cuts and so there is no location for the bus to stop without it being directly in traffic.