Recent content by F-Line to Dudley

This is indeed settled business. RIDOT's studies--and the track expansion therein--were vetted by Amtrak and baked into the 2010 NEC Infrastructure Improvements Master Plan. There were no 2040 impacts to high-speed traffic with the Intrastate buildout, and that was at-the-time predicated on...

On a bus?:unsure:

Levy seems to deeply believe that mode share won't be driven until the rail mode totally defeats!/subjugates!/humiliates! the car mode on travel time all hours of the day, instead of there being a real-world demonstrated mode shift when it's competitive during pressure-point times of day that...

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2026/07/06/prioritizing-rail-expansion-in-new-england/ Alon Levy apparently not a fan of walking and chewing gum at the same time, pans most New England rail service expansion ideas like Nashua/Manchester and RIDOT Intrastate as unnecessary and our only...

Not very many of them. It got 11 daily boardings in the 2018 counts, probably little more than that since it came back on the schedule sans Hastings. Town of Weston has truly craptacular sidewalk coverage, so I'd be willing to bet that almost all of its patrons are kiss-and-ride. Honestly, if...

NETransit updated. 68 Red Line cars are in-service, 0 in-testing. The supply-chain choke for the lengthy Customs hold has now hit, as there have been no new deliveries from Springfield since May. No retirements of any old cars in 11 months, despite the in-service CRRC numbers now being past...

Waltham single track is exactly 1/2 mile long through exactly one station. It's not constraining anything until you try for sub-20 minute frequencies. Which we are a long way from doing. Even :30 minutes bi-directional is completely fine there, and that's pretty much what they're targeting...

The talking points don't make any practical sense. There are no proposed substations in flood-prone areas, and that's the only thing other than the roughly one-every-6-mile circuit breaker stations that's actually at near-ground level in an electrification system (big-whoop...raise the...

It's basically impossible to get accurate MTBF stats on the fleet until North Cambridge garage reopens and the XE40's are running full-time. Charlestown garage only has a couple charging bays for a 37-bus (32 North Cambridge + 5 early-delivery Quincy) active BEB fleet, so most of them are idle...

This is the guy who when he was in the Legislature got a rider tacked onto an unrelated bill to forcibly rip up the out-of-service rails to Falmouth Depot to salt over that then- reactivation-candidate ROW for the bike path. He's also been retired from politics for 17 years, so isn't exactly a...

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/06/23/power-outage-mta-delays-electric-buses Ruh-roh! New York MTA went in big for the same New Flyer XE40 make BEB's that the T is buying, and the reliability stats on that model have turned out pretty dire: 70% worse MTBF than the diesels they replaced, and...

Yeah, pretty much the only practical place to branch Orange is the old Chinatown El split, and even that would be kinda ops-ugly as a flat junction. The SW Corridor is way too snug to fit a junction without blowing up abutting structures and creating lots of operational problems for mainline...

That's a permanent station reno, for a cool $66M. Elevators for accessibility, a second platform, full-high platforms, and up-and-over access. It's been in planning for over 5 years. The controversial aspect is that the current design iteration is trying to do only 4-car platforms in vain...

No, it is pretty crazy on its merits. Because no thought whatsoever was put into the benefits part of cost-benefit, like relative ridership projections, stop sitings, complementary zoning in the neighborhoods, the fact that there are multiple buses on the BHA corridor so trainstituting the 28...

The Dorchester Reporter did a somewhat better job asking questions about this than the Glob did. At least when it came to letting the Councillors shoot their own feet off with their own plain-English utterances without fluffing the edges of the surrounding reporting. Yeah, Miniard. Absolutely...