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What I gather from reports, meetings, and interviews over the past few years is that initially the federal government's political strife with the Chinese government resulted in large cost increases to ship parts here from China. This came 3 years after the factory was already being built. COVID...

I just described how it's not "manually opening each door or opening all doors" I'm not following the issue here. The conductors can only open up to a combination of 3 doors from a single panel using 3 separate buttons which includes a door 85' away at the opposite end of the car the panel is...

The way the automatic doors work is via a conductor pressing buttons for "this door, left, right." That's why the trains have 3 conductors during peak. They can open any combination of doors up to the full train except the locomotive adjacent one and the cab door which are both always kept...

The Commonwelath/Harvard/Brighton Ave densities go back to the street railway construction from 1898-1903 and are very long standing. Most of the brick and stone masoned buildings are at the newest from the 40s. Here's Packard's Corner in 1948 looking West down Brighton Ave It's all still here...

These are the populations and densities of the census tracts in and around the project area: From the 2010 population data so it's probably gone up a bit. The fact that the tract including all of the Allston-Cambridge exit, Beacon Park Yard, and yet unbuilt Harvard developments still has a...

It appears copying my table for the zone changes actually moved around things to different cells and I didn't notice at first. I tried to ensure no zones were skipped. Also any station I did not list is because I wouldn't change its current zone. This is what it should be as screenshot from my...

There seriously needs to be some sort of secure bike storage at Boston Landing ASAP. Bikes and parts are constantly stolen there (my whole bike was) and the bolts securing the racks to the ground have been removed for months. Thieves have been simply tipping over the rack and removing bikes...

This is for the Regional Rail fare structuring discussion in the SCR thread but should probably go here: I did a bit of a draft Regional Rail fare restructuring a while back prompted by SCR and Fall River/New Bedford potential pricing and came up with this: One Way Monthly 1a 2.4 75 1...

Orange Line up to 15 trains running peak service

It'd be neat to see some Toronto area style residential high rise TOD around the West Station site. A new node of very high density could be well-supported by the existing amenities like restaurants, groceries, and entertainment, combined with the station. There's currently a 6 story...

Boston Landing's first steps away from an industrial area to a residential area were shaky with mostly limited commercial and office venues and a single large new residential build that's half parking garage, but going east down along the pike there's a bunch of residential apartment buildings...

Natick Center slowly coming together

Service is currently slow zone limited not staff limited hence frequency increases coming to everything but Orange (equipment shortage). Once the slow zone situation is sufficiently mitigated then Red Line equipment and motorpersons/overall dispatchers, which I think is mostly resolved, come...

What I understand from the WGBH Big Dig podcast is that a MA state "authority" like the MBTA is in a position as a pseudo-private company whilst being state owned so that it can operate as a theoretically/potentially for-profit business (like the Port Authority) whilst still receiving continual...

Yeah Beacon, Washington, and Harvard Ave all need protected or separated lanes as well. I need to go between Brighton at the outer end of Comm Ave and Ruggles everyday and Washington St to Huntington is so unpleasant and the drivers are ridiculous. I now take Comm Ave down to Essex and then back...

Boston currently suffers from a serious shortcoming in that there is not a single protected bike route to go between the Charles Esplanades-Comm Ave-Emerald Necklace-SW Corridor Park. Mass Ave would mostly only require swapping some street parking and the bike lane to be protected along most of...

The reason for slight bus service decreases and trip time shifts is a combination of schedule “reliability” and reprioritization of resources. For schedule reliability: without dedicated infrastructure for buses to avoid car traffic bunching is inevitable. The MBTA’s way of combating this is...

New Worcester Union Station platform up and very well-lit

http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/36-40-sprague-street This project is officially under construction with the land cleared and most of the foundation poured. I didn’t take pictures today cause I didn’t know what it was but I’ll update with pictures since I commute...

I think we have a problem with shying away from transit routes that aren’t expected to have the greatest ridership or duplicate another service in start and end point, which is a contributing factor to why Green Line problems are so crippling to transportation in the city. The waterfront could...