Recent content by Koopzilla24

Genuinely what? If this person gets off the 65 there for work its ~600' from the Longwood galleria stop. If this meeting or recently leading up to it was their first time seeing the routing it should be a red flag for someone who's supposedly chair of a Mobility Advisory Committee. This...

Tons of ties were unloaded at Norwood Central this morning. Not sure if this is for regular track and tie replacement or finally some more progress on double tracking.

That Stop n Shop is a 10min walk at best from Lee's and all a gradual uphill coming back (I'll give you that its two stops on the 66). But that's a whole other can a worms because it's the main grocery option for the ~13k residents that live on the Southside down to Brookline. And then the ~3500...

Oh no, we've created this wonderful mixed-use town center constantly full of life, and driving our town's economy with so much demand! Coolidge Corner sure is chaotic in the best way. One that demonstrates how great it is with it always being busy and flush with people. The actual density of...

Idk to what extent the TSP activates along Beacon St but I've seen it in action. I was waiting to cross the tracks at the Star Market u-turn and the light turned green, only to immediately go back yellow to red because there was a train approaching heading Eastbound. I've been on the C when...

Unfortunately the New Bedford City Council and the residents believe the solution in the housing crisis is to only build a very specific few homes in places that they will never see them, or to magically make new homes appear that are only for the existing residents to instatntly afford and move...

A good part of those operational delays and unreliability has come from the unfinished SR-24 road works keeping the underpass as single track right next to the high traffic East Taunton Station and a long single-tracked section south of Brockton. Once that overpass is finished and the second...

Additionally, from 4 days ago: The MBTA says it’s still ‘testing’ South Station fare gates.

The Reddit thread itself was closed to comments by Mods because the whole thread is just speculating that they would somehow forget to design for cold. According to that same MOD fact check note, the gates are rated for -22F and the same technology is used in Ottawa. My guess is that they didn't...

The experience riding the CRRC trains feels like a lot of slipping on acceleration resulting in it being very jolty rather than smooth. It feels like regular losses in power from a loss in traction so I'd guess that can be fixed with software? Though i figure if that was it they wouldve found a...

Speaking of, I've been seeing ~8-10 of the new cars in the maintenance area of Cabot every day for a bit now (from Fairmount line commute window. It's hard to tell but it looked like a 4 car train half inside a maintenance bay, another 4 car train sat at that boarding platform outside, and a...

I think the only place they can put it is just north of the maintenance vehicle crossing and signal at the switch behind Encore. The grade really starts to steepen right around there but there's ~1200' to work with before the curve under Sweetser, which has quite the superelevation to it, making...

A lot of very interesting information from this. Two-thirds of riders now reach Commuter Rail stations by bike or on foot should hopefully lead to some municipalities and the T reevaluating some of their Big Dig mitigation parking lots. In relation to the 71% Franklin Line modeshare, the...

That was an initial plan for the system with renderings the MBTA "cautioned that the design could change down the road." The proposed new fare gates are meant to be wider and have tap in and out capabilities, which I dont like, but back in 2018 they stated "During the transition between new and...

As of my commute yesterday 1/2/2026 the fare gates from platforms 8-13 were still covered and inactive.