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There's enough room on Comm Ave for an 8-Lane stroad and the Green Line ROW if you remove parking and the grade separated bike lanes, which would've already been done if this was Texas. For the most part the Comm Ave section of the 57 isn't actually that bad because the B and 57 eat up so much...

In a scenario with electrified regional rail, adding a station at Newton Corner without eliminating any other wouldn't effect travel times with any significance. A reality with West Station and the Grand Junction restored could operate the Newton Stations to a new Riverside. Even with diesel...

At the most base level, if the B were to be properly consolidated like a tram should be into less stops between Kenmore and Amory, you'd want the 57 around to accommodate your short trips in the gaps between. There's an incredibly amount of housing density and trip generation from Union Sq...

They've been doing it on the B too. The western branches are ran essentially at the train operators' discretion so I can only really shrug when some decide not to open the rear doors cause they want to ensure people pay while others don't care. In my experience even if only the front doors are...

It's been on the western branches since day one but I've been hearing it less recently

Friend of mine is part of a construction team working on the Braintree Branch Red Line track today and they're in the process of thermite welding in North Quincy. There was a full depth track replacement all the way down to the ties and ballast. It's gonna be strange seeing light gray gravel and...

It reads to me like the East Taunton short turns are going to be midday in the off peak direction like how the Fitchburg short turns at Littleton every other hour. The "This allows for even more frequent service, which is consistent with the All Day Service model across the rest of the Commuter...

Sounds to me like Middleboro - South Station will then be seeing 35min headways on weekdays and 60min headways on weekends

When thinking about the overnight service question before I made this rough routing in Google Earth with the goal of orienting routes to converge on areas of high night employment, hospitals, clubs, etc, and trying to have the Boston area's population center neighborhoods within a 20min walk of...

People aren't enabled to move out by Brighton because transportation cost is the same, otherwise Brighton and Watertown wouldn't have a 50%+ driving commute modeshare and the 500s wouldn't have 1200 riders each packed in only 20-something daily trips. People move where housing is cheaper and...

To clarify, I'm not saying to operate the 15" difference on our infra but rather that changing the shell design of yet unbuilt trains to be for 15" higher floors is easier than for 26" higher floors which would be the deviation from the standard FLIRT. The point of mentioning that was a...

From what I understand about modern railcar manufacturing they are built to be able to adapt the same car for a wide variety of different European platform heights because they only need to change the shells' layout while maintaining almost entirely the same mechanical and electrical...

Track realignment underway at Springfield to reduce delays from freight trains and decrease train traffic congestion. Via Steve Fainer on twitter I'm struggling to find anything but does anyone have more specific info on the work being performed?

This is the most full I've ever seen the Readville lot on a normal weekday (3:45pm Tuesday). More frequent Fairmount + Franklin w/ Foxboro running ~30min peak + now the Providence stops select trains here = a lot more service for residents of Dedham and Hyde Park. The lot on the other side by...

I think it's gonna require the city taking action to remove street parking for dedicated bus lanes on most if not all of Mass Ave, or a serious operator surplus, for the MBTA to get Route 1 headways back to what they once were. Traffic is so bad and schedule adherence is near impossible, so it's...

Where were you picking it up? If you don't mind me asking. Now that school's completely back in session this section of the 86 and 66 routes is actual hell. All scheduling on those routes goes completely out of the window regularly in the evening rush. Constant cancellations and 10-20min...

Buses stuck in traffic with very limited capacity compared to the train make them not a reasonable option for most people to take for regular trips. The train comes with trip comfort and schedule reliability that a bus in mixed traffic cannot compete with making it work for a much larger net of...

The MBTA posted a video to their YouTube channel yesterday describing the goals of the September Braintree Branch shutdown and in it Phil Eng states directly that at the end of it the Red Line will be restored to full 40mph operation, and a few months following the completion of work speeds will...

It's not like I've never been to New Bedford before but the ease and comfort of a train as opposed to a bus on a highway make it a much nicer proposition for a day trip. Rail travel is simply more attractive to people and gets attention. The same goes for why it'd be good for Greenfield when you...

I think New Bedford is a quaint New England town with a decent bit to offer aside from being home to nearly 200,000 people in the cities proper. A rich Portuguese heritage and a historic downtown. A key difference in extending rail to New Bedford and Fall River from Boston as opposed to...