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I want to make sure I have this right, so please correct my numbers if they are off. Of the 152 Orange Line cars: 108 are active (18 trains) 2 are damaged 12 are in testing 30 have yet to enter testing Of the 252 Red Line cars: 14 are active (2 trains) 6 are in testing (or is this 8? I count...

Everything you said here is true. Even so, while the Cape isn’t depopulating, it’s important to note that it has the highest median age of any county in the northeast (55). With relatively few people under the age of 35 residing on the Cape, and more residents over 80 than under 10, its...

It’s now been the majority of south side Commuter Rail trips cancelled today due to crew availability. I’ve never seen anything like this. Clearly something major happened or is happening. Thoughts?

You say that as if “wide” and “lushly-landscaped” parkland along the riverfront is some horrible selfish outcome CRWA is hiding inside the Trojan horse of lane reduction. I’d bet most of us who want a lane reduction ALSO want “them” to get “their” (our) wide and lushly-landscaped parkland. CRWA...

Have any projects ever been redesigned after initial designs had begun? If that has never happened once in recorded history, then I 100% agree that “it is over.” Otherwise, I don’t hear the fat lady singing. Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Any of those three would be amazing. A lane reduction here is important enough that I personally am glad somebody is continuing to beat that drum until shovels are in the ground. It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings.

Do we predict that a RIPTA route (maybe 24L) will be re-routed or added to serve the Fall River Station <-> Newport market? I regularly transfer between the RIPTA 60 and the Providence Line and there is a healthy amount of people who do the same on every trip.

At what point do we question why the overwhelming majority of our tax dollars go to the federal government?

I feel the need to repeat myself. The Orange Line has been averaging 8 minute headways on weekdays since early April. This isn’t peak headways, this is average weekday headways. Pre-COVID, your criticism of the Orange Line having poor off-peak headways would have applied. Nowadays, the MBTA...

You lost me here. This is fatalism over accuracy. The Orange Line has been averaging 8 minute headways on weekdays since early April. You’re using Saturday headways (which is not the norm) without stating that you are using Saturday headways. While we agree that these services should be more...

If I were god-emperor, the next schedule would have: Hourly weekend Providence/Stoughton service, for approximately 18 round trips. 13 round trips to Providence (compared to 10 today). Five round trips to Stoughton (compared to zero today).

Replying to my own comment from a Sunday morning inbound Providence Line Commuter Rail train that has about 1,000 people on it by Attleboro, by my estimate. Boston Calling, beautiful Memorial Say weekend day, Red Sox afternoon game, and the next train is two hours later. It’s time for hourly...

Heck, even just hourly to Providence and every 1.5 hours to Worcester would be a big improvement and totally 100% warranted.

Nothing you are saying is false, but it is entirely a non-sequitor. The best bike infrastructure in the world could exist, but as long as there are bad actors, enforcement is necessary. Just because this truth is more pressing for automobiles than electric/gas bikes, doesn’t mean we should...

Thank you for saying that. I’ve been painted as anti-bike for this exact sentiment many times over the years on this board (ironic as everyone in my life knows me as a “hardcore cyclist and advocate”), but thankfully people are waking up to reality.

People don’t like hearing that the solutions to their problems have been known all along and their suffering has been entirely avoidable, and quite often a result of their own decisions to advocate for things and vote for people and causes that are against their best interests, sometimes for...

The Orange Line averages 13 minute headways on Sundays, per transitmatters’ data. Are you sure your “experience … that the 20 minutes-ish headways on Sundays is pretty average” is accurate and not just a feeling or a very small sample size where a non-representative instance has caused you to...

I agree! Forest Hills, Alewife, and Riverside jump out at me as the most logical additions.

All else equal, I’d choose A. Transit expansion happens on a timescale much larger than human movement. Let’s look at our most recent rapid transit expansion in the region: the Green Line Extension. What percentage of residents who lived there when it broke ground (2012) were still there when...

No lip service to tunnel under C-Branch as one of the alternatives?