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Meet CargoB, which is based around Camberville and is apparently first-in-the-nation for that. They launched around July this year. It doesn't have a spectacularly large network, but rates are $2.50 to unlock and 25¢/min, which is on-par with the blue ebikes. https://www.ridecargob.com/

The MBTA board took a presentation today from Keolis on the BEMU program. While the Keolis rep refused to name names, apparently 6 vehicle manufacturers responded to the RFI, and 12 Banks to the financing RFI, and the actual RFPs should go out in a couple of weeks. 6 vehicle manufacturers would...

Today the MBTA board voted to exercise the remaining 39 options available on the 2019 Hyundai-Rotem contract after the May vote authorized 41, courtesy of last months transfer of funding from the state. That will replace all remaining single level coaches on the CR system. Notably, my wish has...

I'm not holding out any particular expectation that Hasbro will be interested in building a new HQ building - sure it's returned to profitablity in FY24 after selling off E1, but adjusted revenues are still declining and it's still in the middle of a fairly major cost savings exercise. They've...

They partially reversed in October, substituting a Nov 30 2026 deadline, which represents only a 7 month delay. That's apparently mostly caused by the pause in work between April 30 and today - they need a replacement construction season. This is mostly because they've introduced new zoning...

Cambridge is kicking off it's Broadway bike lane project. No drawings available as yet, but it doesn't appear to have been too badly impacted / compromised by the city council vote - segment A to be completed in Winter 25, Segments B+C to begin in Early 26 - which is roughly in line with the...

While the October board slides are already out, there's nothing surprising in them. That said, the apparent next big upcoming project at Logan is a major $300M reconfiguration of the behind-the-scenes North Service Area - this mess of vehicles and service buildings. Primarily, they'll be putting...

Union does sort of have its own truck pad - it's just technically also the grade crossing of the Union Square Branch's VMF access track within the yard boundaries.

At least part of the reason for the full GLX shutdown is just how GLX was built - it doesn't exactly have the crossovers. The one between East Somerville and Lechmere is probably unusable for revenue service during maintenance, as accessing the viaduct from the truckpad requires it for a reverse...

Out of curiosity, would the recent / upcoming GL consolidations not be instructive? By building a new consolidated station in a different location, from a technical/construction perspective it's functionally indistinguishable from an infill station. Amory/Babcock combined cost ~30M in 2021...

I have two questions: Firstly, at the moment, there's been a long running proposal to extend the Vermonter to Montreal, restoring Montrealer pending construction of a pre clearance facility at Gare Centrale. It currently has a mid-afternoon arrival in Springfield - plenty of time for an East...

I was doing a little bit of digging after I realized that the New Quincy Courthouse had an announced construction contract, even if no renders have been posted yet. It's smaller than originally proposed, comprising 130k sqft and 11 courtrooms rather than the 210k and 14 courtrooms previously...

I think the only feasible ballot question would the one that creates an additional funding stream via levy, probably on the order of a ¼ to ½ cent increase to the sales tax. Even in this past election, there were many passed ballot measures for transit funding, including several in states that...

Because for the most part, they're not glass. They're polycarbonate, which is much more impact resistant (250x that of glass) but as a plastic is softer than glass, leading them to being much more easily scratched. Polycarbonate is also incredibly good at absorbing basically the entire UV...

I feel obligated to point out that historically, the T nor other transit agencies didn't have access to any amount of federal operations money - it was all COVID relief funds, and there were no signs that a prospective Harris admin would have made billions available for transit operations...

My ca ~2001 copy of the OL track profile says that the entire Northern OL, from Community College to Oak Grove, was actually rated for 55, outside the stations themselves, and the same is true on the southern end from Green St to Forest Hills. That's actually higher than the Red, but likely due...

Not so much proximity to the harbor, but proximity to the former Exelon / Mystic Generating Station, and therefore its substation and existing power infrastructure. You need to be able to "inject" the power into the grid, and old power plants is where that infrastructure is. Similarly, Merrimack...

My personal assumption is as follows: Stock Urbos 3 = CAF as OEM maintains and makes available an inventory of Urbos specific frameless windows for repairs, since they're the same across the worldwide fleet of 1000+ vehicles. Non-stock/bespoke type 10 = inability to integrate existing molded...

I mean, it's been discussed to death. The legacy Green Line system is riddled with century old tunnels that have curves that are much tighter than those on any other system bar Toronto's. Off the shelf, I believe the Urbos 3 can do 60ft curves? I believe the current standard is 66ft/20m, which...

MAPC was awarded a $21.6M grant from the congestion relief program, which in addition to BlueBike system expansion, is poised to launch a system of "several new shuttle routes to supplement MBTA service throughout the city," apparently as DRT (given the mention of app based booking) and...