Recent content by Rover

Great! Pitch your request for funding to the Trump administration and let us know how much they've willing to offer! ;)

Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton alone have more people than the entire year long population of all of the Cape. Now add in the surrounding towns (Fairhaven, Dartmouth, etc) and it's not even close. Furthermore it's unlikely too many people are traveling from Provincetown to Hyannis (the...

SCR rail advocates absolutely should spike the football on this one. Not because the game is over, but because unlike the Patriots in the SB we put points on the board and have gone into halftime with a lead. But enough of football analogies, let's get down to business. 1) lots of...

I think our congestion tolling friends need to consider how this plays out for voters commuting into the city. In a time of economic uncertainty and rising prices, you're going to screw working people who need to be at work when their employer tells them in order to give the widely unpopular T...

It's cute how much trust some people have in how the T spends it's money and I write that as a big admirer of what Eng had been able to accomplish! The part about taking the train to the bus to pick up your.kids and get them somewhere else after work? Usually where you choose to put your kids...

Very helpful info but I'm curious (and not asking you to pull the data) what the initial ridership was before these lines were established. I recall a lot of bleating about nobody riding the Greenbush line when it opened. I found an article from 10-12 years after opening where it had hit half...

A bad idea that won't die. People aren't in traffic because they want to be. They're in traffic because they have to be. T is unreliable and if you have to switch multiple times from some combo of bus/subway/commuter rail fugeddaboudit. Also if you have to make a stop on your way home, like...

I don't think GLX and SCR cost per ridership is an apples to apples comparison. An inner city subway line is cheaper, more frequent and travels shorter distances. I'm more curious how it compares to the Greenbush line. As a long departed south coaster, I wrote repeatedly that it's up the...

I've been to several of these places and I just don't hold them in the same esteem as you do, but there's nothing wrong with that. I will say the walk from the T station to the Tipsy Toboggan is a bit of a haul and not very scenic, while hoofing it to Columbia Rd really seems like a long...

Agree about Fall River. With New Bedford, the station fits with what's already there. Like 40 years ago NB worked on the historic downtown district, even moving some buildings around. There's the Whaling Museum, ferry to the islands, and several restaurants and hotels all relatively close...

Some thoughts: 1) I would love a seasonal train to Newport, a place I spend a lot of time in so I may be a little biased. However I don't blame the MBTA for moving forward without extensive talks with RIDOT. Rhode island politicians can't find their asses with both hands. They can't even...

No problem. Try doing that commute yourself and let me know if you actually get to Boston from Fall River in the morning in a hour and 5 minutes. Oh, and the car you're driving can't be using lights and sirens as you travel up the highway.

On what planet does driving between Boston and the South Coast during rush hour take less time than the train, because it isn't this one. I had the pleasure of driving down there yesterday. It took two and a half freaking hours and I left at 7:30 in the morning. In fantasyland, where everyone...

They're waiting for Howard Stern to write a check! I do agree though that the COM building has to go. Not sure where they would have room to build it in West Campus but they could put it closer to BU Central where Comm ave goes over the Pike.

I think they should get Enron to sponsor the stadium, as this will end up about as well as that did. 140M for a 11k minor league soccer stadium that will draw about 3k a game. Yikes.