Recent content by sneijder

Speaking of which, this matchday train schedule is absolutely preposterous. Why the hell do we need to "check in" at south station 15-45 minutes before the departure time? This isn't air travel. Also why the hell is there a 45-minute range on the arrival time for a 22-mile trip with no stops...

If I'm interpreting this the right way, this is extremely depressing. It's implying that lower income (and less white) neighborhoods are, by association, so closely linked to dangerous street design and car dependency, that you have to be middle or upper class just to be able to walk across the...

ah, the classic "we cannot build bus lanes in the places where buses would benefit the most from bus lanes" argument.

everyone: give GL signal priority so it can pass through intersections without waiting for 4 cars with 5 people to pass through! Save 5-10 min in travel time from brookline to park st! brookline: best I can do is trim some trees

I've seen so many people use River St northbound + ride on the sidewalk to reach charles circle... shhhh

On the topic of sneckdowns with the recent storm, one area that is super-apparent is Charles st in Beacon Hill. The two side lanes of the 3-thru-car-lanes are half filled with snow, so only the center lane is fully clear and passable by cars. The side lanes have been useful as a door-zone bike...

Most bluebike docks were buried this morning and inaccessible. Seems like they're slowly digging some out now. Some protected bike lanes (longfellow bridge, boylston st in mass ave, most bikeways in cambridge) are plowed and ridable.

I think those are fair points, but improved bike connectivity is one area that would be improved by the redesign, is cheap to build (and is legitimately improving at a good pace in Cambridge and Back Bay). For some suburban commuters they may have no choice but to drive, but I'm guessing enough...

hmm, the entire concept of "we can't reduce road capacity since congestion is already bad" that they are seemingly married to shows some misunderstanding of induced demand. The entire point of the reconstruction is to build less roads to reduce car travel. Sure, it will be painful in the very...

The fact that all of their "keep the overpass" designs didn't even contemplate removing a lane (to 1-lane overpass in each direction) even though that would be sufficient for current throughput, tells you all you need to know. At least this will prevent cut-through traffic in the cambridgeport...

Sigh. I give up on Massdot ever doing anything except building more highway-sized lanes to induce more traffic. The whole point is to reduce vehicle miles traveled so a roundabout can flow effectively again. I don't see any way we get a reduction in car capacity given the current congestion...

A bit old news - but Grove St in Belmont is getting a restriping, which will connect to Cambridge's existing bike projects on Mt Auburn St and Huron Ave. Unfortunately, they are only going with paint-buffered lanes (still with parking on the curbside) despite there being plenty of ROW width for...

Big win for MSN on this one. Lots of university students + football games gives plenty of demand for the route I would imagine. MSN having direct flights to DC, Philly, Charlotte, Denver but not Boston never really made sense.

The metric they reported was # of bikes as a % of total vehicles (bikes + cars) on the roadway. The issue with this metric is that the denominator in this fraction also changes. So in the case of car volume staying the same (say 100 cars/hour) but bike volume doubling from 5 >> 10 bikes/hour...

In a region that's beleagured by recent (and ongoing & neverending) inflation in cost of housing, food, and essentials, it's going to be politically impossible to get an additional "congestion toll" cost in place, especially when lower income folks are already disproportionately likely to live...