Recent content by dennismulder

This is of course a fair rebuttal, and I'm admittedly coming from a point of frustration that Franklin riders face by far the longest travel time of all the Zone 6 stations, in some cases nearly double, and they are ALSO likely the ones who will be sacrified with a forced transfer at Readville...

You can't just look at the raw numbers without diving into the factors that drive them. Franklin is the most populous municipality on the line (and would be the most populous on the Providence Line north of Attleboro as well). Ridership from Forge Park is severely suppressed by horrendous...

I like the idea of putting Walpole on Foxboro, but I prefer even more to revert Foxboro to event only or give it a shuttle on the Framingham Secondary. Obviously strong agree with the TOD. i disagree w/ your premise re: lost ridership from those stations. For example 99% of Norwood Depot...

Crazy how Lowell and Franklin are both ~25 miles yet Lowell is 26min faster. Difference being twice as many stops. Hot take but they should ditch Norfolk, Windsor Gardens, Norwood Depot, Islington, and Endicott, I bet you’d get more total ridership focusing on much faster travel times at the...

Now that’s just crazy talk. Let’s focus on the bigger problem - bicycles that are slightly easier to pedal - before we sweat the little things

To clarify on my end, if I set it on [what i think of as class 3] it provides pedal assist up to 27 or 28mph. I only hit 30 with a dose of adrenaline on top and maybe a little decline. But again, I almost always have it on [what I think of as class 2] level assist at most, because there’s no...

on the flip side, i have a class 3 ebike. i love being able to whip around an open road at 30mph. but when i commute to work on a shared use path, i set it at class 2 level and tend to ride at the 15-20 range. there’s absolutely no reason to ban that on shared use paths, and doing so would be...

Meanwhile, the City mysteriously canceled its scheduled unveiling of the desperstely needed Squares and Streets zoning for nearby Cleary Sq FIVE months ago and has been silent ever since. This project is god awful (aside from the obvious benefit of more housing), but they’re paying the price for...

BPDA approved tonight

One problem, coming from personal experience, is that the required transfer at Readville has been an unmitigated disaster for Franklin line riders going to or from Back Bay/Ruggles. The T’s operations coordination is nonexistent, so if a Franklin train scheduled to arrive just before a...

Really hope this part doesnt ever happen. Taking away Ruggles + Back Bay and increasing travel time to South Station is a devastating blow to Franklin line riders who already endure a ~70 minute ride from Franklin when Mansfield riders get to travel the same distance in as little as 40. Franklin...

Nice project, but unfortunate that it requires a significant upzoning

The solution here is so obvious. The City should add an “open space residential development” district to its zoning code and map that district over crane ledge. Allow sufficient density as of right that it will be worth the developer’s while to wait. Double or triple the as of right unit count...

Gonna take “local retail coffee shop” with a massive grain of salt until hopefully proven wrong, but great to see this project moving forward especially with the reduced parking

https://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/1740-hyde-park-avenue Another new one for Readville. Would love to see retail/restaurants but the rooftops in the pipeline are piling up