Recent content by The EGE

When I visited the station in May, there was a grand total of 1 car in the dirt parking lot. When I rode two of the three evening trains that stop there, both had one passenger get off.

The LRTA is adding two new routes on the 6th: Lowell-Pheasant Lane Mall route 19, with year-round service on a route that formerly ran only during December Wilmington-Burlington route 21, which sadly isn't coordinated with Lowell Line schedules...

Short answer: No. Long answer: Hell no.

This one snuck in a bit under the radar: the Maffa Way and Mystic Avenue Bridge Superstructure Replacement Project, which was recently completed, included several segments of transit lanes at Sullivan Square. Broadway EB (connecting with an existing block on Maffa Way), Mystic WB, and Lombardi...

Do I think it's a reasonable work for the Greenway? Sure, why not. Do I think it would look sick airbrushed on the side of an old van? Hell yeah I do. Does it have anything to do with Paul Revere? No.

Curious to see if that comes true. The website said "January 2026" until at least February: https://web.archive.org/web/20260208142953/https://www.mbta.com/projects/franklin-line-double-track

1975 2026 2026 change B Branch: Boston College to Park Street 35 minutes 45 minutes +10 minutes (+29%) C Branch: Cleveland Circle to Park Street 23 minutes 35 minutes +12 minutes (+52%) D Branch: Riverside to Park Street 43 minutes 48 minutes +5 minutes (+12%) Red Line: Quincy Center to...

The site isn't amazingly transit-accessible - the adjacent 217 gets a few trips a day, the 210 (planned for 25 peak / 50 midday and weekend) is 8 minutes walk, and Wollaston station is 13 minutes walk. Neither is there particularly good auto access. The buildings are generally nice-looking, if...

Cool spot! That looks to be the east staircase; I spotted the south one during street construction in 2015. Information is sketchy, but it appears the two were replaced with the current entrances when the Symphony towers were built in the mid-1970s.

My previous thoughts (just from descriptions) here. My revised thoughts from this information (all images are 2019 / current proposal / new proposal): 465 to Danvers Square: this continues to look good. I like the tighter loop in Danvers, and retaining service on Margin is interesting. (This...

I would assume that World Cup preparations are consuming all available service planning resources.

I have to wonder how much of the outward migration, especially at the lower end of that $200k+ range, is due to housing costs. That's going to be a much larger financial consideration for the majority of that range than the tax.

There's no way that survives a cost-benefit analysis, for a number of reasons. Because the existing tunnel goes all the way to Thorndike Park, building the tunnel under Mass Ave would add about 0.6 miles of additional tunneling. The Minuteman has minimal buried utilities, and there are...

The Hoosac, rather infamously, took 25 years and >100 lives to be completed. A significant part of that was the geological conditions, including water-logged rocks that don't hold shape well. Even with modern equipment, as F-Line indicated, it would still be a very difficult tunneling job. The...

In 1924 (approximately the peak of service) most of the Owl services operated hourly. A few had half-hour service; some were irregular. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1924_BERy_night_cars_timetable.pdf