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Great news! Do you have a source? I’m pleased about this development. I’ve searched everywhere and found nothing. Even the most recent official documents mention nothing about it. If you have a source that backs up your claim, please provide it.

What part isn’t correct? Since I’ve been called out, in spite of attending many of these meetings, I’ll provide a source: Roxbury, Jamaica Plain residents want assurances their streets won't be clogged by suburbanites driving into town to see women's soccer at White Stadium The only two...

I go to Franklin Park daily and use White Stadium weekly (would use it more but the hours it’s open to the public are very, very limited, unfortunately). I’ve gone to plenty of meetings about this project and others and the most common transportation request has been for resident parking on...

You're right that it's the main road to get people from Rozzie to Milton. Here is an accurate statement: Cummins "Highway" is the main corridor to get between Roslindale and Milton/Quincy. Here is an inaccurate statement: Cummins "Highway" is the main corridor to get between western Boston...

Emphasis mine. This DRAMATICALLY overstates the importance of Cummins "Highway." The "main corridor to get between western Boston suburbs and Milton and Quincy" is: 128 (I-95 <> I-93. I know it's not all technically 128 anymore) 128 serves as the main corridor for autmobile traffic to get...

It's been a brutal past year and a half to be a Red Line rider. Any word on the cause of this fire?

Great post. My quibbles: Snubs: North Cambridge: Between Alewife and Davis on the Red Line, at Mass Ave. I put this in the "could be worth it" category. Located in an already dense neighborhood, but about a 10-12 minute walk to either the Russell Field Alewife headhouse or the Holland St Davis...

Everett <> Kendall (via Broadway, Alford St, Washington St, McGrath, First, Binney, and Third) is a possibility. Eastern Ave (Chelsea) <> Kendall (via Silver Line Gateway, Second St, Chelsea St, Broadway, Alford St, Washington St, McGrath, First, Binney, Third) is another possibility. I don’t...

Great! That makes perfect sense to me. Optimize the three existing heavy rail rapid transit lines first-and-foremost.

If the goal was better connectivity between the SL1/SL2/SL3 and the Orange Line, how could that best be accomplished, absent political barriers, with a $100 million budget, for example.

Thanks for the data. So far, the shutdowns have delivered on the heavy rail promises, but failed to deliver on Green Line promises. Yet another in a long list of reasons why the Red-Blue Connector is going to be a valuable project: decreasing reliance on the Green Line.

This is all fine and dandy, but the elephant in the room nobody wants to address is why this section is slower than it used to be. All of the explanations put forth have only described why it isn't faster than it is, but none have even remotely addressed why it isn't as fast as it was.

I’ll guess 15 for lowest and 77 for highest.

I have on multiple occassions seen the Orange Line express from Ruggles to Forest Hills. This may be the most common and logical stretch to express the Orange Line to correct headways. I say that as somebody whose home station gets skipped when that happens.

Your insights are incredibly valuable and I really enjoy reading them. Thanks for contributing to this forum. You make it a better place.

Right and this would explain why there aren’t more time savings, but doesn’t explain why it was quicker in years past.

According to transitmatters' data, the Green Line is significantly slower over the North Station <> Kenmore stretch than it was a year ago. WHY? That is not a rhetorical question. Any and all answers welcome. For perspective, that stretch has undergone a total of 30 days of shutdowns for track...

The exerpeince of anyone who regularly drives this stretch would show that the bolded section (emphasis mine) isn't true. This rotary ends up being the single biggest chokepoint on Route 2 nearly every single day. I don't think the entire 11-mile stretch should be upgraded to be an expressway...

It’s worth noting that Route 2 is built as an expressway from Alewife Brook Parkway (in Cambridge) to Route 128 (in Lexington) and from the MA-111 split in Acton to the Erving. This 11-mile stretch between Lexington and Acton is the only stretch not built to those standards in that 70-mile...

Totally! I do not view WFH as a partisan issue, but (and now I’m really risking turning this into a political discussion), I’m sure the powers that be can find a way to turn it into a partisan wedge issue if it can help them get elected and/or serve the needs of their donors.