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Wow those are cool. It looks like a scanning of an old stone tablet written in an ancient writing system (Cuneiform, Linear A, etc). I kinda like the bottom two, the "bookshelf-of-different-sized-books" look. Though it probably looks better uncolored before they make weird choices with...

Oh wow this picture brought up some traumatic, yet fun, memories. I knew this was track 17. It's my most hated platform (and usually the one my train was scheduled on) when taking the LIRR ~20 years ago. That platform is so damn tight. It's still in my muscle memory where I'd enter/stand if...

Continuing on the modern diesel locomotive, er, train: Are there any measurements surrounding noise pollution improvements for these newer-gen diesel locomotives? I tried to do some very-quick searching but only see vague references to "less noise". I assume if the T's locos are "Tier 0+"...

Is this going to languish for years? It's been what, almost 4 years now that the Haymarket site has been cordoned off? Is anything positive happening? Is it going to be a filene's-style void? If so, they should at least make the barriers nicer to look at--similar to the ones in Fenway by the...

God--my wife and I have always talked about how Boston would be very cool if golf-cart-like transport was enabled/preferred. Most of our urban,non-walking, trips are no more than 1-2 miles (just past a comfortable/not too time-inefficient walk) that might be easily transit oriented for some...

Some pictures of the Charlesbank worksite from their drone captures on June 24th (via the links from my previous post):

oh shit, is this "150 second cycle" something you can look up via massdot or something? I would love to add it to my arsenal of "things in my mind that are almost totally useless but pretty cool if i can use it in a scenario that helps save time". or are you basing it off empirical evidence (or...

Kinda, but there's a huge asterisk for their weekend service as "operates the full route 7 days a week" is not correct. From their April 2025 pdf schedule, the weekend trips do not stop in Cambridgeport or North Station as they run a different route (their website allows you click into the...

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but, I just got an email informing me of public meetings for the Article 80 updates (see this bostonplans page for the project, here and give feedback/attend a meeting if you'd like). Here's the link for their early actions supplement for...

Here's an excerpt of Longwood Collective's data from around 2022 with pre/post pandemic ridership. There's probably better data somewhere else but this is a starting-point. (From "Longwood Collective Annual Report FY22") It also has a blurb about specific routes, like the Fenway route being...

If I'm reading similar news from B&T, they're looking to do get approved for offsite affordable housing in order to move forward soon with the 600+ unit apartment buildings (instead of the previous 100 onsite affordable).

The esplanade association had a meeting on April 2nd and have posted the video of the meeting online to YouTube Continuing the information from my previous post, the Charlesbank Landing project is moving forward which is the reason for the move of the Temporary Ops Shed, and in the video they...

I walked by last Monday and Wednesday (April 28/30) and was surprised at how quickly things got underway and placed. I would not be surprised if they hit their target for the Summer 2025 opening. For example, if I recall properly, they were doing foundation/drainage/etc work on Monday and then...

I don't know how to describe this, maybe it's "trips generated by sq mile?" but it would be very cool to see how mode-shift or bus-number-shift occurs by making trips have a "lossy" start and end point of about 1/4 mile and show trends somehow via a map. (This is totally outside of my...

It would be interesting (and probably impossible to get it going so quickly) to do this along with the Draw One bridge project at North Station. I think they're going to keep all 4 tracks over the Charles running during weekdays and 2 tracks on the weekends during the construction of the bridge...