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Why are they bitching? The Widett Circle layover stores 24 T trainsets. 30 if they take the cold storage warehouse property. They don't need Beacon Park's pathetic 8-and-shrinking trainsets at all. Widett's enough to satiate all current service and all Regional Rail growth. The T will never...

The 2013 FEIR for Phase II predicted 240 daily boardings at Battleship Cove vs. 840 at Fall River Depot, or about 28% of FR Depot's ridership. That was third-worst on the line after Easton Village (150) and Freetown (180). The 2018 FEIR for Phase I reduced the Fall River Depot boardings to...

Kings Highway was what they were calling it in the 2013 FEIR for Phase II. Logical because it would've matched the namesake of the nearest MA 140 exit. Who knows what they were thinking with the Church St. changeover.

That Schlictman guy was posting here on the previous page of this thread. He's definitely well-organized. Whether it turns into a movement like STEP was for GLX remains to be seen, but it's good that this is starting to percolate into public consciousness.

Massport won't move on. They're still actively developing Marine Terminal, they just spent a mint on the port dredging and are still looking for new and creative ways to take advantage of it, and they still own Track 61 from the Pumphouse Rd. grade crossing points east so it's a strategic...

No. They did a signals improvement and capacity increase project recently to put lipstick on the pig, but it's still awful and has the WTF? at-grade crossing for the tractor-trailer parking area.

Tide St. is being reserved by Massport for a freight rail spur off Track 61 to Marine Terminal. It was subject to past TIGER grant applications, though nothing has come of it yet. It's very unlikely they'd let you bogart that reservation for transit.

They've got to get rid of the signalized intersection at the I-291 exit. That's got to be the single worst-configured Pike interchange out there.

Type 7 rebuilds were an Alstom job. The one gripe with CAF is that they tend to miss delivery deadlines. The Type 9's were a bit late (not CRRC-late, but moderately behind-schedule nonetheless). Their Amtrak Viewliner 2's were ridiculously late. But both makes appear to be very high-quality...

Why do that? It's not like the trail is going to be out-of-commission for 10 years, and biking through a construction zone is not exactly going to be a pleasant experience with all the noise and dust. Just shut Thorndike-Lake St., Lake St.-Arlington Center, and Arlington Center-Mill St. in...

Alewife gets emptied of literally all of its buses if RLX-Arlington Heights gets built, with Arlington Center and Arlington Heights assuming terminal status for those routes. So there's limited need for an expensively perfect busway to Route 2, because Alewife was never supposed to be a major...

The Chestnut Hill Ave. trackage is long overdue for a rebuild. I believe the eastbound switches at the intersection with Comm Ave. have been out-of-service for more than a decade, ever since a Type 8 wrecked itself beyond repair on a split switch there and took out a pole and some overhead...

The Buzzards Bay CR Feasibility Study concluded that a couple of Middleboro Branch passing sidings would need to be lengthened and that another couple would need to be added to extend an equivalent of today's Middleboro/Lakeville schedules to Buzzards Bay. If you're increasing service levels...

Hell, the pro-transit people seize on it. Caltrain-HSR Compatibility Blog, the transpo blogosphere standard-bearer for all things Caltrain, pretty much has a hive mind to want to bustitute the Gilroy tail they hate BEMU's so much.

The Framingham crossings have been subject to 40 (!) separation/mitigation studies over the last century, and the city has deadlocked itself every single time. Right down to deadlocking on common-sense short-term tweaks to the street grid and crossing equipment. It's incredibly unlikely they'd...

That would only serve to make the bunching problem much worse, because the B's schedule adherence is all kinds of messed up and now you're layering two messed-up schedules on top of each other. Making them share a reservation is an excellent way to tank both services.

The bus connections aren't anywhere near as rich at Faneuil vs. Newton Corner. Faneuil would have only the same infrequent 64 that also stops at Boston Landing. Newton Corner has the 57, 52, 553, 554, 556, and 558...and could if the station were built easily also get an extended 71. Newton...

That's where moving more rail-to-truck transloads to West Springfield with yard and truck access upgrades can help lots. The big rigs pound the shit out of the Pike between 146-290-84 for reaching Greater Hartford, and the hills from Millbury-Sturbridge really clobber speeds in the right two...

The state's already been smart about this by supporting CSX's and Norfolk Southern's intermodal rail franchises with grant money. It's a massive reduction in big rig traffic to have double-stacked cube trains running 100+ cars to terminals like Worcester and Ayer, especially on journeys >250...

And that's a bad thing? The express buses get stuck in Pike traffic all the time, and when the Pike @ Allston gets ripped up for a decade-long reconfiguration the stopped traffic is going to turn into a full-on all-day nightmare. The 50x's schedule adherence is all over the map especially at...