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it's separate from the BNRD but still aligns within it.

i wonder why green line service is being cut?

SL5 is included in what you were saying about fewer trips.

Franks.

I feel that with the changes with Phase 1 BNR combined with the other bus service changes in the Winter schedule will bring the overall bus service at close to if not exactly 95% of pre-pandemic service levels. The BNR service changes themselves like the 104, 109, and 110 being more frequent is...

Yes it is a school trip.

How is that cruel?

More effectively increasing capacity (with 40 foot buses) by incewasing is what you're trying to say. 32 had used articulated buses in 2007 but they stopped that according to an operator because of issues with getting the buses through the streets.

Well the buses are actually hybrid with extended-range battery for the transitway and SL3 in Chelsea plus the 5 battery electric buses we previously had before the DMAs got replaced.

Buses post-Sumner tunnel closure still use the ramp as dispatch allows during 3-6 PM weekdays. Also it is worth mentioning that SL3 weekday ridership has surpassed the estimated # of riders of 8,700 back before the route started over 5 years ago. It has the highest ridership compared to all...

Unfortunately, that issue may never be eliminated.

1500/1501 arrived which from a vehicle numbering stand point is a milestone.

All the DMAs have been officially retired. However, 1120 will be sent to a museum.

At Silver Line Way while the bus switches from electric to diesel, the reason why the operator goes outside to the back of the bus is to tie the ropes of the two poles on two little circular blades mounted at the back of the bus for each pole. They do this because even though the poles of the...

Goodbye Lechmere Station. By the way, did anybody went to see it? I know I did and I found out that 3716 the car I rode during the day on the E-branch to Lechmere was used on the last run of the e-branch coupled to 3812.