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I probably could have been clearer, but I was only referring to the station platforms. The fleet itself is a barrier that needs to be crossed, but I suppose the essence of what I'm asking is, is accessible boarding entirely reliant on the "mini-highs" and bridge plates? ie, are the platforms and...

I'm unfamiliar with the specifics of the Mattapan Line, but my understanding is that the stations, bar valley road, are already similar to accessible GL stations. If current plans go through though, and Mattapan gets Type 9s, would it be meaningfully different from accessiblity on the Green Line?

So, per a comment added 5 days ago to a 2 year old reddit thread, as well as some RR.net rumors, we should apparently expect to get a heritage liveried commuter rail locomotive in the very near future. Personally, I suspect this is Eng being a railroad person, who is willing to step outside...

Just for reference and because they were a pain to dig out of the registry of deeds, the existing current condition site plans. As far as I can tell these are the most recent plans available, but they don't all show everything or even the same parcel boundaries, so bear with me. This plan shows...

I left that out because it's impossible to parse out Alewife specifically, but Keolis has a 3 year contract for parking management for all 101 MBTA owned parking facilities for $19M, including revenue enforcement as well as general upkeep maintenance and cleaning - call it $6.3m a year. Notably...

Your footprint only really intersects with the 50s era units 4-6, which are concrete and bleh - no real loss. But If we're able to keep the brick building, there may be a happy medium. That brick power building at one point had a pair of stacks of its own. If you look at Google imagery, where...

Maybe is probably the answer. I suspect that the Alewife garage isn't exempt from the T's history of deferred maintenance, since it was increasingly decrepit by 2015, but it's actually not that old. It opened in what, 1985? Full repair history: 2007, $1.4M structural & concrete repairs 2012...

I wasn't able to find up to date data, but the Alewife garage was incredibly popular pre-covid - pre ridership decline, as Driving from the end of rt 2 to downtown via Fresh Pond Parkway and SFR is painful in rush hour. The rapid transit terminals usually had extremely well patronized garages...

... The state constitution literally requires a balanced budget. If you look at the FY25 budget spending is aligned with projected revenues. But the state does issue bonds to build things and therefore has "debt" to repay, but servicing that debt is built into the operational budget. Unlike the...

There's a line item in the CIP for atrium repairs, in addition to money for structural work. I suspect they'll keep patching the garage for another few years while they get the redevelopment ducks in a row, especially since the T just awarded a structural repairs contract. By the description I...

Looks like there'll still be two 20k sqft retail spaces - but I honestly don't know how I'd feel about living on top of a suburban strip mall. Do we have a precedent for this in the greater boston area?

I don't disagree but I can't wait for the day someone steps up and takes on Greenway Parcels 6 and 12. Those ramp filled holes still are major visual and experiential barrier between the North End and the City.

That was also when WMATA had pulled the entire 7000 fleet from service, plus the Dulles extension opened at the end of 2022.

The STB is a bit of a fugly super block, but for what it is it's not offensive - just boring. I don't disagree, but I would note that they must have that capability to some degree already. The STB's retail slots are all filled, and I didn't even realize that 100 Cambridge was a state owned...

Ok, so first off absolutely no disagreement regarding the parking lot "plazas" around the Govt. Services Center, or the governments propensity for bad curb use. However, there's pretty big difference between having the Commonwealth bulldoze a neighborhood for a monument of concrete vs acquiring...

Chill, I wasn't disagreeing with your point overall. This is objectively a decent deal for the Commonwealth as long as it's going to continue leasing space. I was Just making a comment that I'd rather see the Commonwealth buy a building, even if some middleman makes a bundle, because in the long...

To be absolutely fair... The government would probably minimize its expenses if it owned its space instead of leasing it, much like how the MBTA just bought an office building in Quincy. Given the depressed market, now would be the time to snap something up for relatively cheap - though the...

They do - They're just not worth as much as American ones. The NBA deal is worth $7B a year? For the UK rights, The New deal announced by the premier league a couple months ago is a £1.8b ($2.2B)/year media deal. The thing is, even that is tied to performance - only 50% of the pot is evenly...

FYI FY25 already started. The state fiscal year runs July 1 - June 30. While the T intends to find 93m in savings, it intends to run full service as it exists today, and continue its hiring initiatives but it's relying on 307M in piggy banked federal COVID dollars to balance it's budget...

In other news, the House and Senate finally agreed on the FY25 budget. Relevant to the T is that they've included $447M for the MBTA, and $204m for the RTAs to launch fare free services. Important to note that it's not all additional - the T's own FY25 budget planned for $314m in state...