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Yes, definitely agree with this, and I agree that Francis and Longwood are the keys. Thanks for pulling the numbers! Yeah, when I was staring at the pivot tables last night, it seemed like the official figures for Prudential were, like, an order of magnitude above the other stops? I thought I...

This got me thinking. The latest iteration of my crayon/GLR map has three services using Ruggles St: an H Harvard <> Ruggles service, an L Brigham Circle <> Mattapan service, and an M Brigham Circle <> BU Med Ctr service. The L and M run along Huntington before turning on to Ruggles, so aren't a...

Huntington Extended Subway Stations So, if we extend the subway under Huntington, do we keep the existing stop locations? In theory, one might think that moving from a surface light rail line to a subway would have fewer stations, but, on closer inspection, that's not obvious to me. It's about...

LynnWorx.

Yeah, it’s a fair point, and it touches on the larger question of “city identity and heritage” vs the neighborhood equivalent.

The first African American to own land in Boston. (Really it should be Atkins, since that was her surname (or her original surname, Potter), but I thought that Googling “zipporah boston” would get clearer results than “atkins boston”, and so would be better "marketing" for this general idea in...

This was quite possibly my favorite thing about your map, and I actually made a remark to my partner the day before I posted this, saying that I really liked the concept and would love to eventually implement it. I think it’s a wonderful delightful idea. Part of why I didn’t is that the...

The A Line is a BRT corridor with significant dedicated infrastructure, supporting dedicated A Line buses, but also serving routes such as the (T)7 and (T)111, so Southie is getting a piece of the pie too. On a 100-year timespan, I would eventually convert and expand the A Line into a...

^ Huh, I guess that’s true — the one Fairmount train that continues on to the NEC (to Stoughton, IIRC) doesn’t actually stop at Readville, does it?

I've continued to iterate on my Transportation Dreams submission, to capture a few more ideas and experiment with some things. In no particular order: Chelsea: I'll probably write more about this at some point, but this map depicts an approach we've been tossing around a bit, wherein the...

Something else I just noticed: the station at the end of the Franklin Line is labeled "Forge Park/Route 495", despite being signed everywhere else (on the T's website, on the schedule, and on the platform) as "Forge Park/495" (omitting the "Route").

These are interesting examples, definitely need to look at these more closely. The only piece I'd say without first reviewing further is that we know from the examples of the D Line, GLX, and the Orange Line that full grade separation with 1-mile stop spacing can produce speeds upward of 16...

Thanks for figuring the math there on the impact of the short stretch of subway. It did indeed annoy me that I glossed over it, so appreciate you hashing it out. Where would you carry out intersection elimination? I know 11.3 mph does not seem like a stretch to you, but it still seems like a...

Oh to be very clear, I'm not in favor of the T continuing its charade of pretending SL4/5 are rapid transit. I'm just describing why I think the T will overwhelmingly see it as in their best interest to do so. If you are asking whether I think the T will continue to be dishonest, both in general...

I agree with your overall philosophy here @TheRatmeister, so I don't want to come across as combative, but I do want to drill in to some of these points more specifically: There are more characteristics of heavy metro than just outright capacity. But either way, a grade-separated, limited-stop...

If the T had extra cars (which, as far as I can tell, they don't), they could run a supplemental North Station service that terminates at Blandford St: That would boost frequencies in the "pseudo-heavy rail" section but would avoid the pain of running on the B/C.

Obligatory plug: a core tension is any Washington St transit plan is the dual purposes trying to be served. As I explain here, an "F Line to Nubian" isn't actually sufficient, because the purpose of the El was to provide express service to downtown for Dorchester & Mattapan residents...

I thought about this idea and I like it; the only problem is that a number of our Rapid/Frequent/T routes have three digits. We may be able to drop the one digit without too much impact? Or otherwise simply renumber them? T101 -> 601 or 611 T109 -> 619 T104 -> 614 T110 -> 610 T111 -> 611 T116...

I admit, I did think that the "T" branding was cute... but also oddly reduplicative in a strange way. Imagine saying: The T's T12 bus is being extended to Providence next month. It's a little "too" cute, so in some ways I'm not surprised it would be phased out. I do agree that the Silver Line...

This prompted me to update and expand my analysis of North Adams service via Springfield. Looking more closely at the numbers, it really is a no brainer -- bootstrapping into the CommPass rail improvements (using the NNEIRI model) would be extraordinarily less expensive, would be equally fast...