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It's such a weird "compromise". They've made it impossible for bikers to get to shops in Mattapan Square and they've consolidated bike baths to one side. Sucks, but not the end of the world if there are alternate slow street connections to Neponset path + Cummins (I think I remember seeing a...

US women have done well the last few decades because they had a huge head start on investing in women's soccer due to title IX and college athletics. The gap has significantly closed to the rest of the soccer world though as women's leagues/ national programs have grown in England, Spain...

That's been present at a lot of the games in Pawtucket and it seems quite popular with the fan base, along with all the swan stuff (Fear the Flock, Up the Swans, Barking Swans etc.). The supporters group literally honks during many of their chants, you'll see people wearing swan hats, and there...

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Thanks, this is a good catch, that is mostly an error on my part. I generally think that 128 is good boundary to draw an approximate zone boundary as a ring of stations that are going to have a different ridership characteristic with P&R. In my overlay map, I include Mishawum and even Anderson...

Seems a little bit like you're describing my goal in my ongoing fantasy map, just without all the extra fantasy of SLX, Urban Ring, BLX etc. Maybe with a bit more color distinction between the S-bahn lines. But it's difficult because we have so many colors and connections already, it might...

Fantastic news for City of Boston and BPS. Hopefully that's the end of these sue-happy groups and "local controversy", and we can all move on to enjoying a fantastic facility for the community and BPS kids.

I mean third most important station on the Worcester line, not the entire system. I get it is abysmal for bus transfers, but I think it has more long-term potential than Lansdowne, Newton stations, or Boston Landing due to Grand Junction proximity and the future developments there.

What's the issue with running every MBTA trip as an all-stop local service and having East-West rail as the express service? I know Amtrak is generally more expensive, but weren't there similar explorations in Providence with the "Rhody Pass" to have some sort of collaboration between systems...

Definitely not any sailboats that would go out into the harbor, but maybe they're speculating that once the green area is a little less industrialized, the inner area of the channel could be used as a small sailing center aimed at kids and families similar to Pleasure Bay or Jamaica Pond.

Yeah I'm saying future 30 minute service to Northborough, but every15 minutes at Framingham station between service to Worcester and Northborough. And even more than that by fitting in the future Amtrak service

Yeah, in my mind, the station absolutely has to be east of Concord/Hollis and needs to accommodate an elevated extension to the Framingham secondary for future :30 service (brown is elevated structure and blue is potential development parcels). I think it would make most sense for this station...

I don't think there is any cheap way to eliminate these grade-crossing but it is necessary to improve passenger service. The cheapest thing would be to tunnel Concord/Irving under the crossing, but it would have to be a severe incline to get under Waverly in 200ft or so and back up to Howard...

At least they are sticking with the side platforms that won't block platforms extension in the future rather than the center platform they were floating previously. They mentioned so many times in the presentation that they are struggling with funds and cutting other programs to fund this. The...

As a Boston resident and soccer fan, Fan Fest and the world cup experience has been fantastic. The only drawbacks were what others have mentioned, it wasn't big enough and too hard to access (no way to leave and come back later). All games I went to were packed with great energy, good (but...