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In general, that's true, though some MBTA routes do run with relatively high farebox recovery. In 2012, the SL1, SL5, and Waterfront shuttle (SLW) all had farebox recovery slightly over 100%, and the other SL routes were close. A few other routes (1,17, 21, 39, 117) had net-cost-per-passenger...

Unfortunately, the other two stations out of service for repairs are cases where there's no simple fix. Winchester Center is on an embankment and the entire ramp structure was in bad shape; there's nowhere nearby to stick temporary platforms. (At Lynn, the tracks go from above grade to below...

Interestingly, only part of the old platform was demolished as of December 2023: There's still equipment inside the former main lobby. Several floors of the garage are still in use, oddly enough.

The interim platforms at Lynn aren't anything to write home about, but they should be serviceable enough for a few years while the T gets its act together on the permanent station rebuild.

The only reason there's a lot of steel here is because of the need for stairs/ramps/elevators as access to the elevated platform. The passenger experience itself will be platforms with shed roofs (albeit the inbound platform will be covered most of its length, which should be standard). What...

The outbound stairs and elevator: Beams for the inbound platform on the Waterman Road bridge: The bridge over the rotary. The north end of the outbound platform will be over the right (south) section of the rotary.

Winchester Center station construction on December 29. From Wedgemere: The inbound side, with steel for the stairs and the elevator shaft up: The ramp structure on the south end of the outbound platform:

Here's something that aged like milk: It's actually from the 1980-82 bustitution, which was to reconstruct the line for LRVs, rather than the 1985 "temporary" bustitution that actually ended Arborway service. But still... oof...

More or less. The Park Street carhouse was located in the area now occupied by the strip mall parking lot. It dated back to the West End Street Railway days. When Fields Corner station was built in 1927, a bus garage was added where the Rite Aid now is. The separated reservation on the south...

Yep.

That's actually what the MBTA website calls it: https://www.mbta.com/stops/place-ER-0117

The temporary headhouse and construction work to connect it to the existing lobby, taken on the 28th.

The station and Wamsutta Layover:

The footbridge at the station:

New Bedford station:

Church Street station near completion on December 24:

I think a Tech Square infill is somewhere between "reasonable" and "crazy", but probably not god mode. I think the station itself would be a good idea. Centered on Albany Street, you're looking at about 1,700 feet spacing, and the density would certainly justify it. Relief of platform crowding...

Cleveland is an odd case where HRT and LRT already shared track, and ridership that doesn't need the capacity of HRT. Pre-COVID ridership was about 18k on the Red Line and 5k on the Green + Blue lines, compared to 69k for the Blue Line.* I don't believe the Red Line regularly used trains any...

That's from news coverage of the opening of the Bowdoin extension on March 18, 1916, but it would apply just the same to the modern Red-Blue Connector. Several Cambridge streetcar lines ran through the Joy Street Portal to terminate at Scollay Under (now Government Center), and a through service...

I-93 north of Boston is never going to be something that will work well with anything near the current volume of vehicles. It's always going to connect to 128 and the Pike and the Central Artery and Southeast Expressway. It's always going to connect to narrow, congested surface streets. The...