Recent content by sneijder

Golly is philly lucky that political leaders in the 70s and 80s had their heads screwed on right to build the downtown through-running tunnel. Boston would look like an entirely different city with NSRL and full electrification. We just want hourly diesel service on every line on a weekday to a...

Cambridge has quietly watered down and delayed the Mass Ave improvement project from north of Harvard Sq to the Arlington town line. This was part of the CSO that was mandated to be complete by end of 2026, but they cited cost overruns/funding as a source of delays in a presentation this past...

Apparently after Louisa was killed in Roxbury, people unaffiliated with the city added a paint "protected" intersection that has recently caught a lot of controversy. Allegedly (from reddit) a driver running a red struck someone on a scooter in the exact same spot, which some are blaming the new...

Ugh, this is just a classic watering down of designs that repeatedly holds boston's bike network back. Spend millions designing and implementing a full-depth reconstruction, only to cut its utility in half just so 20 people a day can park their car for free, a mere blocks away from a major...

Definitely a bigger build, but what I think makes sense: - convert alewife to a regional rail station on the fitchburg line.. most of the development/density is near the fitchburg line ROW anyway. The current red line station has half its walkshed as a parking garage, russell field parkland...

Broadway reconstruction in Cambridge is moving along swiftly. In the area today and section B is largely complete with flex posts going in right now, with section C resurfacing/restriping under way. The section by cambridge library is getting some floating curb bus stops (not just quick build)...

the key point here - that with electrification, the zone express to worcester (all local stops after natick) will achieve Heart-2-Hub travel times that Worcester wants without introducing another stopping pattern into the clock facing schedule. So just electrify the dang thing. And the few...

again not a rail engineer, but if you raised all the 30-45mph zones up to 75-90mph, wouldn't all trains (metro-north and otherwise) clear the signal blocks faster resulting in fewer traffic backups as well? this is assuming we have 4 functional tracks along the length of new rochelle <> new...

It's wild how many 30-45mph zones there are in connecticut - I thought a lot of the slow Amtrak speeds were related to train dispatching/spacing with Metro North. With this punch list of upgrades + reduced padding, its crazy how much travel times could be improved just within the current ROW...

The first design is laughable. Literally looks like something out of texas or arizona. Glad everyone had the sensibility to strike that down.

Does anyone know wtf is going on with the Red Line floating slabs? seems like a nearly annual shutdown at this point (either multiple weekends or the current 10-day diversion going on right now). That can't be the normal maintenance cadence when it was initially designed. Will these things just...

I just don't understand who this stop is serving. The walkshed in that area basically serves no one, so it'd be an exclusive park-and-ride station. But the waltham single track basically means that we can't really improve frequencies much more, esp not compared to the worcester line a few miles...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/06/26/not-zero-yet-livablestreets-report-assesses-progress-in-three-cities-after-a-decade-of-vision-zero its quite interesting to see sommerville with better (lower) crash numbers for bikes/peds compared to cambridge. Not surprising to see Boston's numbers...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/06/18/cambridge-pedestrianizes-a-harvard-square-block-with-more-car-free-spaces-in-consideration it grinds my gears that every god damn thing that takes an inch of space away from cars must be a "pilot" that has the potential to be reversed with enough...

"Would you be willing to pay to drive downtown if there was less traffic?" Well if majority of people said yes to this then all those people would still be driving downtown which means there would be....just as much traffic as we currently have now.