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Got caught in it as well. Walked to SS to take the commuter rail instead. Saw at least 6 emergency vehicles out front.

It is certainly an interesting note that the host city ended up being Paris, a city which many would hold up over the past ten years as "This is what we COULD be doing!".

I do hope the sarcasm in my post was evident. Quincy has simultaneously been one of the best performers in the region at adding housing but has also been absolutely auto-oriented in the way it's done it. I don't have data on spots versus units but every single development I've encountered has...

You see, density makes sense out up in the quarries where it's far away from everything. That way there's space for 80% of the land to be surface parking to accommodate all the cars needed. Why would you want dense residential development in the middle of a dense neighborhood like Wollaston...

Letter from the mayor re: the future of Eastern Nazarene College

Apologies, I'm not saying the cars themselves are higher capacity, I'm saying the transit network that serves the area is. There are commuter rail alternatives for people in Needham or Wellesley for example that aren't there for Burlington or Bedford.

I would posit that the D line and close proximity alternatives are in a different stratosphere of capacity than this potential trolley. Ill grant that the quality of service will probably suppress demand to a degree but that doesn't seem like an argument in favor. If we're not getting the...

Agreed. I think a single track trolley pinging between 128 and AH is set up to fail. It's penny wise and pound short, similar (if not a perfect comparison) to the silver live tunnel where demand will quickly exceed capacity. (Also I want to mention I'm not ignoring your probably right rebuttal...

If you have no idea how to make your case beyond a personal anecdote that should be an indication you need to be looking into it deeper before making said case to others.

I think you're getting really hung up on "this impractical and entirely unrealistic idea is less impractical and entirely unrealistic than that other idea" which, while objectively true for the reasons you state, is kind of irrelevant since it's also impractical and unrealistic.

With the Transit app and other real time tracking information still being down, I wonder how much it impacts people's decision to take transit (particularly thinking about low frequency bus routes).

Not familiar enough with the ops to say for certain but I would imagine it would be impossible to run a meaningful number of shuttles on an already busy single track.

Also conveniently dodges the Southeast CT NIMBYs. The quiet corner won't be quiet about this, but there is vastly less money and organized community groups.

I have full faith in the housing market to take care of this.

Idk if it's really shocking that people want to defend the thing that they use in their day-to-day life. It's the same impulse as defending street parking in your neighborhood, if with significantly fewer societal externalities. Most people don't think in utilitarian fashion when it comes to...

At no point did phase II ever seem like anything other than a bait-and-switch. I would be shocked, pleasantly so but shocked all the same, if phase II happens by 2040.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/07/09/mbta-cape-cod-and-vineyard-transit-authorities-win-federal-funding-for-electric-and-lower-emission-buses

I'd be VERY interested in an updated version of this map, and hopefully we get something like it with the upcoming GoBoston 2030 update. Bluebikes has so much more reach than Hubway did a decade ago, and with Turo and GetAround coming on the scene I don't think there is an inch of Boston that...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not seeing anywhere on the old A-line route with less than 80' of RoW until it becomes Washington Street where it drops to 70'. There's no concerns on this segment about having green line, grade separated bike lanes, sidewalks, and travel lanes in each direction...

Discovered today and figured I'd share, the Greater Portland Council of Governments produces a podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/1URlCCnnee9Co5xLNOm66f