Recent content by Joel N. Weber II

A single full length high level platform at each station would be better for wheelchair accessibility than having an inferior platform on one or both sides, and any gap filler thing becomes a new thing for the T to maintain that might introduce new maintenance challenges. The T has plenty of...

After I wrote that, I realized that the Ballardvale platform and parking lot are currently on the east side of the track, not the west side of the track. That makes me think we should pursue one full length high level platform on the west track at Andover Station and one full length high level...

I'm saying we should replace the mirrors on all the buses. The width of the bus body is probably just fine, and may well be the same as a standard 53' semi trailer.

Who's going to advocate for reserving that for BRT? Doesn't seem like it would be freeway drivers who might want new ramps, or people who want to open up the waterfront, or most of the transit advocates who probably would prefer LRT. And St Marys St freeway ramps have BRT potential in the form...

I think it should be 5' bike lane, 2' buffer, 10' travel lane, 10' left turn lane, 10' travel lane, 2' buffer, 5' bike lane. 10' lanes might be a problem for oversized mirrors on MBTA buses, but if that's actually the case, the buses should be narrowed to the same 9' total width including...

If we had double track from Lowell Jct to the southern end of the Lawrence yard, a full length high level platform on the west track at both Ballardvale and Andover, and no platform on the eastern track at those two stations, a crossover for northbound commuter trains to move from the eastern...

Javier: Thanks. I was assuming that they intended to prohibit pedestrian access across the Medford St bridge (if that were the case, my understanding is that the giant gap between the ``BRIDGE CLOSED'' sign and the ``DETOUR'' sign to its left should be filled in with some sort of barrier), but...

What if we extend the Red Line to Milton, and then run Type 9 trains from Milton to Mattapan (and maybe continue the Type 9s along the 29 bus route (minus its Franklin Field Housing deviation) to Jackson Sq if sufficient transit reservations can be set aside in the streets)? Alewife effectively...

Is the plan at these stations a full length high level platform on one side and a full length low platform on the other side with a mini high, or low with mini-high on both sides? How many freight trains per day pass through these stations? With enough new interlockings, would there be...

http://ariofsevit.com/apb/2019/08/30/its-time-to-radically-rethink-memoria/ goes into more detail on this idea.

What are your thoughts on how this sort of thing worked out for San Francisco? https://www.cnu.org/what-we-do/build-great-places/embarcadero-freeway

If we diet I-90 to three lanes in each direction (or maybe even keep four lanes in each direction), possibly reduce the width of Montfort St, probably shift the tracks south, and rebuild the St Mary's St bridge across I-90, couldn't we make space for an I-90 eastbound off ramp and an I-90...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover_station_(MBTA) says Andover has two tracks, one side platform, so isn't the solution there to just build a full length high level platform adjacent to only one track for the commuter trains, and let Amtrak and the freights use the platformless track? And...

Javier, at some point within the last two months I was walking along Medford St and continued along Pearl St where Medford St was blocked off due to bridge work, but it looked to me like the way Medford St towards the bridge was blocked off had not taken white cane users into account. Do you...

What's the best way for Lowell Line commuters to get to Cambridge jobs? EZ-Ride clearly has had some demand, but going all the way to North Station to get to Kendall is inefficient, and I've been thinking the NSRL station should probably be located near Haymarket instead of North Station since...