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al·le·vi·ate /əˈlēvēˌāt/ verb make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe Make speed restrictions less severe. No promise of "speed restriction go away". Yes...in PR-land that wording is intentional. :(

T launches own in-house speed restrictions dashboard: https://www.mbta.com/performance-metrics/speed-restrictions https://www.universalhub.com/2023/slow-zone-after-slow-zone-after-slow-zone Better late than never.

Yes. McGovern Honda is the site of the old Everett Station, so it crossed the river then ran right alongside Broadway into the terminal.

The tracks are a little too curvy and climb a few too many hills to go faster than 79. That was the top historical speed, and it's the top feasible modern speed given the geometry you have to work with. 90 MPH is Class 5 track. 110 MPH is Class 6 track. There's only a few places in the...

The "hotel train" has been discussed to death, if you want to look through the other threads where it's come up. It's pure vaporware that's been peddled for over 10 years now, resurfacing periodically in the news. Its finances/ridership projections/operations plan simply don't add up. At this...

The Acela I's ride a little rough for HSR sets, owing to their weight and the complexity of the active-tilt mechanisms. And that's not getting better as they age. The II's are supposed to be a lot smoother.

It's not the curve with Everett. It's the grade. Next to the casino the Eastern Route is on a 3% grade coming off the Mystic bridge, steepest on the whole Purple Line. That's too steep by almost half for ADA platform regulations, so it can't legally be built. There are plenty of curved...

It's part of the Everett Terminal property, so the zoning might be locked in as industrial/warehousing.

And then those same studies usually relegate the insane ones to an Appendix. Like..."And ohbytheway, for completeness' sake we also benchmarked a gondola, a monorail, and grabbed every pair of rails we could cram down Track 61...but LOL to all of them." They don't get featured placement in the...

It's the lack of focus that's most remarkable. All of these pie-in-the-sky concepts just collectively scream "We hate the Silver Line!", but actually improving the Silver Line is just presented as another slide buried in the middle of the deck (squint and you'll miss the sub-bullet that says...

BDPA, you're drunk. Step away from the crayons. . .

The only thing this plan is missing is. . . Oh, I kid. It's most definitely in there: :poop:³ EDIT: But wait...there's more!

And note that Fairmount...the one and only Purple Line that resides entirely in inside the City...doesn't get to play in this folly of the City's own creation. That's some convincing self-advocacy there, Boston.:rolleyes:

TRACK 61 ALL THE THINGS!!!:poop: Seriously...it's time for an intervention.

Really? The City thinks it can take the lone lead on a megaproject the state decisively panned almost 30 years ago? Well...good luck with that.

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/more-defects-found-green-line-tracks-so-trolleys Inspections find even more defects in Green Line tracks, so the blanket speed restrictions have been extended. Everywhere, including on GLX. 🤡

Danvers is no longer a candidate for an extension. They took out a 99-year trail lease on the Danvers Branch with intent to make a walking trail to Peabody Square. The extension that still has advocacy is the one to North Shore Mall via Peabody Square, using the ex- South Middleton Branch and...

That TM report is a hot mess with all the 100 MPH running. Easily the single worst and most flawed of the bunch they've released. In short: Greenbush would be a rolling vomitorium at those speeds. Absolutely no one would take such a careless view of basic rider comfort. Optimizing the cant...

Greenbush isn't Class 4 because all the sharp curves meant it never had a chance to clear 60 MPH between stops.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/03/palmer-pittsfield-rail-money-in-state-budget-demonstrates-healeys-commitment-to-east-west-rail.html Healey's budget earmarks $4M towards an East-West train station right there in Palmer.