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Re: a wall between the station and the highway: They are pouring some concrete between them (around the steel supporting the deck) -- I'm not sure why, but it's halfway towards being a wall between the station and the highway, so I hope they finish it somehow at some point. I don't have a...

Not sure if it's related to the new cars, or related to not having enough working old cars, but there's an alert right now that the red line will be running a 4-car train today:

A quote from the "4. Newton Highlands Station" section: It sucks that construction is delayed, but honestly I'm really pleased to see that the reason is to prepare for doing single-tracking during construction instead of shutdowns

The Globe article linked above does have this line: Not sure where they got that from though, given I haven't seen anywhere where the state had endorsed light rail on the grand junction

Yeah, especially given that, for this weekend, they've been able to keep Medford - E. Somerville opened while E. Somerville - Park St. and Union Sq. - Park St. are closed. That indicates to me that, since they're closing E. Somerville - Medford during that future shutdown, they have some...

$200 million seems like a lot for reconstruction of a single above-ground subway station. Are they imagining anything bigger than what we currently have there, given that amount of money?

New conceptual design is out for the Blue Hill Ave. center-running bus lanes: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/11/08/city-of-boston-mbta-release-refined-designs-for-blue-hill-avenue-transit-project PDF of the design

Just a guess, but I wonder if it has to do with how they're staging materials or equipment for the shutdown the following weekend from GLX thru Park St (presumably to work on the speed restrictions between North Station and Government Center)? maybe somewhere on the Union Sq branch is a...

https://www.wcvb.com/article/5-investigates-mbta-employees-on-leave-amid-maintenance-yard-investigation/62654853 "... an unfolding investigation at a major maintenance yard that has already resulted in numerous employees being placed on leave ..." at Cabot Yard

The derailed train is still there: (The Type 7 in the foreground wasn't there last night IIRC; maybe they were using that to shuttle personnel around?)

In the post above yours, I shared the latest timeline for the track improvement program this year. It's mostly the same as what they proposed at the end of last year, which, even back then, included the upcoming B branch shutdown. It can also answer your question around what shutdowns they're...

The written update on the Track Improvement Program from last Thursday's board meeting included an updated timeline. Unlike the ones I've seen before, this one includes "actual" vs. "modeled" numbers for the time savings in minutes from removing the speed restrictions: A couple highlights: On...

The Lechmere viaduct is back at 10mph today:

IIRC, they removed those ceiling panels in Davis sometime last year after that ceiling panel at Harvard fell and almost hit someone a little over a year ago. This slide from the GM report at the 3/23/23 board meeting alludes to that too:

Yeah; if you're curious for updates on that, check out: gosrpra.com