Recent content by ritchiew

This one is more complicated, but here is some software to figure it how fast a train can run on a given right-of-way. It's mainly for intercity or commuter rail. It's a python script that run in QGIS. It will come up with a timetable and show which curves create the biggest time loss...

I rode on new electric buses a couple of times in and out of Harvard this morning. They were nice, and they had this really nice wayfinding screen up front. Do any other T buses have this? I don't think I've ever see them on my usual routes.

Ok, but are any of these complaints legitimate? Residents were concerned that they wouldn't be able to get past the bike infrastructure. What? There would still be crosswalks in all the same places. If people were crossing the street not at a crosswalk, they would just walk across the bike lane...

I don't know where to put this, but TransitMatters has this new project out. Info here: https://futures.transitmatters.org Start poking around here: https://futures.transitmatters.org/explore It's an interactive map showing new example rail lines, and what could be possible with more funding...

Those two citations don't seem to have anything to do with how boundaries get set. They do not support anything the AI apparently spat out.

There are a bunch of cities with some form of congestion zone. Does anyone have any resources on how they set boundaries elsewhere? Or some academic work on best practices and important variables?

I can't find a full video to be sure, but I think you are completely misinterpreting what Kairos Shen was saying. Their discussion was specifically about inclusionary zoning. It was a part of a symposium called "20% Affordable, Give or Take: A Spotlight on Inclusionary Zoning." The "standards"...

Yeah, it's great they can squeeze this through-running track into Union Station. What really needs to happen eventually is through-run all the tracks at Union Station, which pretty much requires demolishing the office building that sits on top of it now. I thought there was some tentative...

Is anyone tracking how much new housing is actually getting built because the Act?

Yes, end the cap. But why is the State Auditor taking a position on this? I have not really figured out what that office actually does. Is this a part of her job? Promoting big policy changes like this?

Here's a super quick and basic tool for finding the population within a circle on a map https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/ There are lots of tools like this one. Maybe someone has a better recommendation. But this is good for quick sanity checks for things like "which neighborhood...

Looks good. Not to be too negative about this, but it's frustrating to see they didn't built to train to go exactly to the airport. It's across a parking lot and some wide street with no real new pedestrian infrastructure (in those pictures at least). There's so much open space around the...

So what's a fair apple-to-apples comparison?

How are you getting one-fifth? I think the Fairmount Line trains might be ~2.5 times more expensive. (Sorry to be pedantic. I'm planning to yell at my representatives again and just want to make sure I have my numbers exactly right.) MBTA will lease 7 four-car trains for $765M. Metra will get...

I don't know.... I read the presser and it looks very clear to me. They say (a few different ways) that the eventual speed-up is contingent on other upgrades. This doesn't look misleading at all. And I appreciate it when the T is clear about the goals and purpose of the work they're doing...