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I've seen it prove its use to regular riders on my morning bus commute a handful of times now. Riders that don't need to go into work everyday and don't have a monthly/weekly have not kept up on their charliecard balance and went to tap with insufficient funds. Without any cash on hand the bus...

The announcements on my Franklin Line train just stated there are going to be upcoming schedule changes and weekend closures to facilitate the Franklin Line Double Tracking Project.

Even if they're cheap looking the amount of important information you get out of the LCD screens on the OL trains couldn't be achieved with a dot matrix. They list every single connection not just a generic "bus and train connections" and for wayfinding that's crucial. Also the ability for them...

There are currently 1207 units worth of construction approved by the city of Everett for construction on 2nd Street (unless I missed some). The 129-unit building on the corner of Rt16 and 2nd was still a pile of dirt in Sept 2022 and is now renting out units to residents. A 320 unit building at...

You might have to wait a little longer than that. The 1500s have been on the rails for 55 years now and have another four to go

I doubt it since according to media the T is planning to replace the garage and station with a new development. https://www.universalhub.com/2024/mbta-could-seek-developer-replace-alewife-garage

My mistake I did not make it clear that the Old Colony thing was not in a NSRL context. I meant that in the "more trains to Ruggles" context and in the near-term. NSRL or 15min regional rail frequencies would supply the increased service to Ruggles. But in the near-term I believe there is merit...

Ruggles<->Longwood is served by the 8,19,47, CT2, CT3, Longwood Collective buses, and various other shuttle buses. Theres also many bus connections to get to the industrial and warehouse jobs in between Dorchester, Roxbury, and the South End. On top of that, the station sits on Northeastern...

Modern trolleybuses with small onboard batteries to run short distances off wire function fine on our existing 600v system. The efficiencies of modern motors allow for in-motion charging but the batteries can also charge when the vehicle is stopped and using minimal power.

Theres a lot more service you can run on only double track than we seem to be able to accomplish up here in Greater Boston. Even in this area nearly the same LoS happens at 128 with the NER, Acela, Providence, and Stoughton trains. The caveat being that they all stop at 128 as opposed to Amtrak...

Green Line operator informed my girlfriend that the new fare readers will be going live very soon. I expected "This Summer" coming from the T to be September but if it's coming in the early stages of summer I'll be relatively impressed.

Something similar was discussed in here before if someone can find it. I think the problem was the deal RI made with the MBTA is that RI would pay for operations expenses of the commuter rail in RI but they'd keep ticket revenue or something like that. So the T has no incentive to run better...

This state is a similar size to Belgium with a higher GDP and $7bil more annual tax revenue with a few million less people. If we were to be as financially independent as certain states like to pretend they are we'd have a lot more potential to do big things. Theoretically.

I think y'all're completely forgetting that 2024 is the year of shutdown after shutdown to fix the rail system. Of course the fare revenue is gonna be depressed when every other week for half the FY is free shuttle buses to replace a large segment of rail for 9+ days. FY24 had 3 Red, 6 Green, 2...

It says "to operate a commuter bus network" does this mean they want to run express coach buses between Springfield, Greenfield, and Pittsfield? Or maybe more like G73E type routes?

Boils down to money. 2 hours service while offering the $10 weekend pass allows them to maintain a low operations cost while attracting enough riders to maximize rider loads on those low costs because "its the weekend nobody's in a rush." Bi-hourly is also the minimum they can run each line with...

It looks like the 30min Fairmount Line service is working well to attract riders. Usually during the morning rush the east side lots at Readville are functionally empty but this morning they were 50% full at 8am

Greenbush dinky to Quincy. Those rich folks, and Weymouth, get their quiet train with no wires and higher frequencies in exchange for having a 2 seat ride. Could also actually have downtown stations in those towns with a short quiet FLIRT platform

I think a solid contributor to the general trend of more traffic light adherence is that European cities tend to actually have prevalent 21st century traffic signaling. Here our ancient lights are almost entirely on basic timers even though you can see the detection loop in the approach lanes in...

I think this could be potentially really simple to enforce in the Boston area at least. There are a solid amount of existing bicycle cops, and deploying them to ride around the shared use paths for patrol to simply tell anyone going too fast to slow down could go a long way. For police officers...