Recent content by ant8904

No, that's wasn't how it happened. We were all here, including you, following along GLX's. Do you not remember how much it kicking and screaming to make GLX start? Do you forget the years of lawsuits, how long it was footdrag to actually start, how it still almost died except the board voted to...

The first post in this thread was made back in 2011. I'm not going to read through 27 pages and figure out how much was spent on studies over the past 15 years, but if a study costs $250k as earmarked right now and spent the same in 2011, then it would be doubled at 5% interest. I wonder all...

It doesn't even belong in Crazy Transit Pitches, the posts in that thread are generally ideas that is earnest and beneficial but political and financial realities preclude the dream. Proposals that the poster knows is a pipe dream but genuinely believe in the idea if enacted. The lack of effort...

So far the only contact has been through my efforts. They haven't contacted any of us directly, property owners excepted. I only learned about it from that news article. Places like the diner were more generally aware, but mostly only through various things they were hearing from customers. Some...

So Watertown is planning this: https://www.watertownmanews.com/2026/04/07/first-details-of-redevelopment-of-watertown-square-parking-lots-revealed-including-garage-residential-project/ Tomorrow is an Open House meeting. I guess I have to reveal something. For those who remember me from years...

"Still be another"? Implying you're getting mad on the hypothetical that it would get delayed anyways? Or are you not able to recognize that link is saying that right now parts for assembly is all held up at the border. That's not just risking another delay, it's risking a complete halt - and I...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/01/14/gov-healey-to-make-major-announcement-on-transport-funding-tuesday Well, whatever the plan (that does sound like it will be disappointing) that going to be revealed later today, at least this means the odds of the worse case scenario greatly decreases...

Which brings us back to the question.. would it cost that much to put in some fare gates on the GLX stations? Old Lechmere station had faregates, where did those old one go? My understanding is they dropped it for value engineering, but does that have mean forever?

Alright, thanks. The congestion revenue estimate is noted on page 15 and on the table on page 17.

The division of the Millionaires' Tax is half the money goes to school and other half is transit. Stefal posted the current break down and Stilin posted the official structure. They can only spend based on what is budgeted. Any excess amount goes to a reserve fund, but future years can budget...

I know I said that line, but I do want respond that my concerns are not exactly the same. Like in terms of full disaster, my concern is the worse case scenario have a concerningly high non-zero chance. That they are going to procrastinate, but until past procrastination, they put it off so late...

Something that I've been meaning to ask. The last shutdown, it removed the last Green Line Slow zone, but what did they do outside of those removals? The only chatter I can find was this and it didn't really answer the question

Bare with me, this is on topic. I remember a Louis Rossmann video (YouTuber, Right-to-Repair advocate) where he looked into getting a Right-to-Repair ballot question going. He even started a GoFundMe, with one option being to put the funds toward a ballot question. But after doing the research...

Best case is MBTA is deferred as we have to wait through a hostile administration. Not much different than before except Eng manage to roll the bolder back enough that we don't have slow zones. But worse case is the loss of Fed fund with the fiscal cliff means the gap is so big that we get what...

I know this is duplicative so I should ask in the main thread, but I feel like the vibe here is more on questions than over in there right now - anyone knows if the "pedestrian walkway bridge" that used to go under the old bridge is coming back? I remember in the main thread that renders include...