Recent content by Koopzilla24

A personal anecdote but I've biked this stretch many times to commute southbound out of the city from Brighton, and every single time bar a few I've encountered at least one other poor sap biking it. It's the most logical way to get to/from Lee St. and subsequently Newton-Allandale-VFW's...

What does he even mean? Focus on the T but also focus less on getting people to their jobs where most of the jobs are?

Park St isn't a flat station but on a not-insignificant incline north. If the lead train was a Type 7, the foot controls are a bit weird and can roll back if the operator has released the brakes (or not applied them enough) and not got on the power right away. I've been on many a train that has...

It was also stated in the meeting that all scheduling stuff is based off of simulated running and computer models of service that they will adjust the schedules over time with actual service. It was in response to the public Q&A segment because someone specfically asked about the overall journey...

They currently run 2-3 trainsets active on the Fairmount in conjunction with a handful of Franklin Line trains and one Stoughton throughout the day to achieve their 30min headways with the caveat of not including Readville in the "30min all day." Turning around an electric train as opposed to a...

Apparently Keolis is requesting 7 battery trains. Thats far more than needed for the Fairmount so its safe to say theyre serrioisly gearing up to test them out on the Stoughton as planned

Once again I managed to get caught up in this. I showed up at 2:10pm to take Franklin Line train 1709 only to find that inbound Providence Line train out there had derailed halfway through a switch between what looked like the 3rd/4th cars. My train scheduled for 2:17 didnt depart until 3:23...

The most easy of these for the MBTA to pull off would be Milford though it isn't the most important. I personally know more than a dozen people who either daily or semi-regularly drive to Forge Park or Southborough to commute from there and it is a town rapidly catching Franklin in population...

Last available data for the 104/109 combined via Transitmatters was 7,775 second week of October '24. 1400 is 18% of that from one segment of one of those routes so that's pretty good. Almost 1 in 5 riders. Though I'd assume the ridership from the separated and consolidated routes would be...

From a BNRD project update email today: - About 1400 daily riders using the 104 segment to the Airport. - Phase 1 required 60 additional bus operator hires above prior service (320 total for the routes involved)

I was in Franklin Line train #726 in the middle of this. We passed the Forest Hills interlocking just south of the station at around 5:53pm right on schedule where we came to a halt, and there we sat until ~7:45pm when we were finally given clearance to reverse all the way back to Readville to...

Would it be any worse than what exists now with having to cross slip lanes to enter a subway station? You wouldn't need a Florida sized SPUI because it wouldn't be interfacing with 8 Florida lanes of traffic but rather maintain the existing number of lanes and can eliminate the slip lanes...

For anyone wondering what's up with fare inspection Those 16 "Fare Engagement Representatives" from October were just to inform people and remind them about fares not do the enforcement and citation yet. Starting on the GLX sometime this year they will begin randomly checking for those...

They've been delivering 2 cars each type monthly. transithistory must've been behind. Edit: nvm I misunderstood what you were saying my fault. As far as I'm aware they need to test all train control and signaling processes as well as a certain amount of time/mileage on the actual rails...

This is the one and only thing I think we should emulate from Florida specifically for the Columbia/93 exit: Minus the straight-through lanes because in our case they're ramps not frontage roads Of course it'd be on a smaller scale and we can eliminate the slip lanes but consolidating all...