Recent content by Badusername

Yes they discuss that in the article, the segment under Park Drive is being held up by the MBTA against the wishes of MassDOT, DCR, and Boston.

New fare gates open Oct. 1 at North Station

They specifically called this out as having been successfully fixed in this video: Hopefully they’re just waiting a week to actually lift the restriction like the OL? Otherwise the GLX is in for a lifetime of poor performance.

Deal for nearly 100-acre ExxonMobil property in Everett falls through The purchase and sale agreement was terminated less than four months after the two parties inked the deal. The details about why the deal fell apart are unclear, as are the next steps for the site, a crucial piece of Everett’s...

Has any demo progress been made during the OL shutdown? Or should we just expect many more weekend shutdowns for years to come until they get this done?

I totally agree. Even the pedal and parks aren’t very well weather protected. If a business existed that had bike lockers throughout the city available for a monthly subscription, I feel like it would be very successful. I’m sure permitting or NIMBYs would interfere somehow. Half the reason I’ll...

Charles St. is allegedly part of a “separate, ongoing planning process” which sounds fishy to me.

That’s mostly true, but the bridge over the MBTA yard will be most useful for bikes and ebikes. The high incline, lack of sitting areas, and lack of shelter in the middle of the air makes it seem pretty undesirable for pedestrians. From where the community path ends now there aren’t any great...

I wish they had set the light posts a few feet back so it could be easily widened in the future. The 10ft width of this path means it’s going to be at capacity the day it opens. The Minuteman at 12 feet wide already needs widening.

Has anyone tried to stick a housing tower on top of a lab yet? This could be difficult with the mechanicals on the roof, but as long as they have separate entrances I don’t see why you can‘t put 20 floors of housing on top of a 4 floor lab.

With the recently passed e-bike legalization in the Transportation Bond Bill, do we expect more communities to allow dockless e-scooters like Bird and Lime? Massachusetts seems to be an outlier in how few of its cities allow dockless vehicles. A google search is showing only P-town and...

Appears they might have cut down some trees they shouldn’t have:

I’m confident that the operating speed on the viaduct was supposed to be up to 50mph. I can’t believe their ”fix” is implying it will only ever run at half that speed. Will the entire GLX be speed limited to 25?

So this theoretically could help the dispatcher staffing issues identified by the FTA?

Does the new signal system streamline dispatching? As in, when the new system is complete would the T be able to have more trains running per dispatcher? I imagine that fully automated systems would have less of a need for dispatchers, but maybe I just don’t know what exactly the dispatchers do.