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Went down to Pawtucket the other day (Saturday) and the return trip further cemented my belief that the Providence Line needs more service. I was on train 1806 the 11:50am out of Providence. While waiting at Pawtucket/Central Falls the platform looked like a typical weekday rush-hour load of 30+...

That stop sign is because of the steep grade of the incline. It's both a speed control and brake check. There are multiple of these on the B between Warren St and Sutherland Rd because of the steep hills.

Looks like ridership data is being published earlier now but Bus APC still lags behind

Yes from the end of the switches and following the first curve out of North Station. On the tracks paralleling the yard tracks leading to the portal the train was traveling above the restricted speed. Operators largely ignore the Warren St>Washington St slow zone on the B since the trains...

Went up to Ball Sq today from Brookline Village to get a feel for how the speeds are doing on the Viaduct and Riverside Branch. GPS clocked a top speed of 33mph on the Riverside. Not a large sample size because Longwood-Fenway is too short to reach top speed before the switches. North Station...

I've taken the 14 quite a few times to get between Heath and the OL/Jackson. It regularly came into Jackson with 5-7 people on board. Most of them alight at Jackson with only a couple remaining on. I was usually not the only person boarding towards Heath. Coming the other way in the mornings...

Was thinking about this today as a reverse commuter on the Franklin Line and the transit frequencies seem to be a primary driving force behind reserve commute ridership. Before the return of Foxboro service the Franklin Line was pretty bare every morning and evening but since its return and...

The Google Maps streetview car was on 290 and got a good view of Worcester Union Station Progress

I found in a Railroad.net forum from 2009 that switch speed limits on the Green Line are indeed due to the Type 8 center section. That's not confirmed information though. The few operator error accidents of the 2000s resulted in the MBTA dropping a lot of speed limits on the Green Line. The...

Took a while cause I've been busy but 47 As has already been pointed out the 47 DESPERATELY needs more frequent service. It's quite ridiculous that such an important route that's one of few cross-river services runs every 15-20min at best but drops off to barebones service on weekends...

About the podcast, Streetsblog confirmed that it’s takedown was simply because it was published before it was supposed to and for some reason the Governor’s office was very anal about it only being released exactly when agreed upon. There’s no difference in the releases as if they wanted to hide...

From the 2020 station access study The study was about the whole system, stations where people can drive and park in particular, and doesn't go very in-depth with exact numbers but it provides some bus data.

Echoing @TheRatmeister , none of the hospitals have direct patient entrances on Longwood Ave that are not accessible from alternative or cross streets. Blackfan itself would have reduced traffic as well. Since you’d no longer be able to turn on or off it from Longwood, the only traffic that...

Welcome to reality. Humans aren't robots that perfectly follow rules and react to external stimuli in the same predictable way every time. The thing is, not following rules or acting unpredictably has far more serious consequences in only one of these; being behind the wheel of an automobile. A...

Skip to bottom for bus transit forum-related talking point There's a keyword repeated and that's traffic. Cars are geometrically incompatible with dense land use. Not to say that there's no place for private automobiles as they're a very useful transportation tool. That said, of this 66-served...

The level of bus traffic is incredibly high on Longwood and Francis when you factor in the Yankee shuttles, individual hospital shuttles, and MASCO bus routes into the MBTA equation so I think transit priority on both should be the way to go. My concern with Francis St though is that one side of...

I will die on the hill that Longwood Ave between Louis Pasteur and Brookline should be transit/bike/delivery only. This would not change vehicular access to any of the parking garages or hospitals but it would greatly speed up transit making it a better alternative. Combined with bus lanes on...

I didn’t make it clear but that wasn’t in reference to people that have been on since Cambridge transferring off the 1 to the Green Line but rather people on Marlborough, Beacon, or Comm Ave taking the 1 up to Hynes to then transfer off. Plus if you’re coming from Cambridge and want to go to a...

Union Sq Allston is an important neighborhood center to directly serve and since it is unfortunately the only North-South route for about a mile each way east or west it makes sense for it to make this diversion. The other consideration is that the extra time it takes to go up to Brighton Ave is...

Continuing on bus rider observations: 1 The route 1 is very similar to the 66 in its pattern of stopping in high demand density areas then mostly residential in between while also checking off the rapid transit connection box. The difference with the 1 is its dynamic paralleling the Red Line...