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No the LaGuardia project is a total rebuild. All new terminals built between/above the existing terminals while the existing terminals stayed in use. Pretty amazing engineering and construction coordination -- and wicked expensive. Also B, C, D terminals collapsed to two that are pretty...

You would be looking at a rebuild on the same order of magnitude as LaGuardia. LaGuardia's rebuild is costing $8 Billion. I don't think anyone is suggesting throwing that amount of money at Massport.

In all honesty only half of the predecessor operation to CRRC "hummed" smoothly. CNR, the predecessor that the T initially contracted with, had a solid reputation for transit vehicles. CSR the company that acquired CNR to form CRRC did not have the same "smooth operations" reputation...

All the building needs is a Jazz Hands sculpture, then we could call it the Razzle-Dazzle Building.

Because commuter rail trains operate under FRA regulations and they specify how exterior doors are controlled. 49 CFR § 238.135 - Operating practices for exterior side door safety systems.

Agreed. More just pointing out that you can get too simple in the station design. There is a limit to how cheap you can go and still maintain functionality. But even a redundant elevator version is still a very efficient design (which we would find some way to muck up, I am sure). The...

One big drawback of the Copenhagen station design is only one elevator per station -- and even there they are frequently out of service.

But isn't the whole point of Regional Rail to change the ridership mix on the Commuter Rail routes? If you don't implement a fare structure that attracts the different mix of riders, Regional Rail will fail. Regional Rail is not about the current riders, it is about the non-users today.

Unless the engineering of the long platform causes you to do something else expensive. You could have site specific issues, such as expensive to move obstructions, or space limitations that cause you to use elevators instead of ramps for accessible vertical access. I am not saying that is the...

Neither the City nor the Commonwealth has turned down the development monies. The development is stalled waiting for a do-over of the "Downtown Waterfront Municipal Harbor Plan", as mandated by the SJC. From 2022...

And particularly problematic as development stalls for this cycle, leaving huge holes in the planned protection network.

Operationally, you are going to have likely 20% of the available fleet sidelined for routine maintenance and inspection, perhaps more as you are still carefully qualifying the new cars.

Good point, dominant direction could be a bit different inland (although Weymouth is not very far inland!).

You would likely never have gotten this built as indicated (and not because of NIMBYs, because of the FAA and aircraft safety). Runway alignments are not selected to fit the land area available. They are selected to align with prevailing wind directions to minimize cross-wind takeoff and...

This is why we should be using tax monies not developer extorsion to fix up aging T stations. Developer extorsion yields crap buildings. Basically any monies shifted to the station repair get VE'd out of the building design.

Perhaps there is a way to approach use of the Fairmont Line corridor that could work without most of the above negative implications. What if we place a requirement on any suburban line being routed over the Fairmont corridor (Franklin or other options) that it use rolling stock appropriate to...

From the Boston Globe a few days ago: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/02/business/baltimore-bridge-disaster-tobin-bridge-boston-harbor/ Tobin is much much much less likely to get damaged in a ship strike than the Key Bridge in Baltimore. Much less shipping traffic under it; Much smaller...

This really should have been done along Dartmouth Street. Much of the street has extra right-of-way from the former carriage road that fed between the Back Bay residential area and Back Bay Station. But there has been a lot of encroachment into that right-of-way.

Yes, OSHA, MBTA and Suffolk jointly agreed to temporarily stop work a week ago, after they dropped a steel beam and smashed 2 windows in the process.

The Southwest Corridor infrastructure can service the Centre/South Streets corridor. But to make that argument, you need to improve the safety of the major connecting streets for bikes. They are barely safe to drive!