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The MBTA Board voted today to approve the latest evolution of plans to redevelop Riverside. Apparently the 2023 revisions above were never fully approved, so they'd been proceeding under the 2021 plan up to this point. Now, it's been split into phases. Phase 1 will still be entirely residential...

I thought Littleton approved a 60 space expansion in 2019? My understanding is that Littleton actually wanted more, but T budget - and that it died due to COVID and the pull back on on-call work.

They did survey the town last year as part of their rezoning of South Acton Village; the majority think there needs to be more parking and apparently several raised the idea of a garage. I mean... This one is kinda on the RTA/MBTA, since those lots are owned by the Town. If the town owns...

It's still listed in the FY25 capital budget as in-design, but it could live there for a little while before it actually moves to construction.

On this point, Watertown Yard does exist... I realize the T doesn't treat it like a bus garage, but there's no real reason they couldn't. It's probably the most underutilized facility they own.

A question - do we happen to know the marginal cost of each additional weekend frequency? Given the shortness of Fairmount, I believe operating the current weekday and weekend schedule both require 2-3 consists - the marginal cost of service is, presumably, just fuel & consumables since you're...

My man, read the slide. The slide clearly says that 2029 was without the reset. The OL fleet should be fully delivered by September 2025, RL by 2027.

Lol, no - the coaches launches that they chase the college kids on are powered and often not exactly small. I couldn't find a good photo of one on the Charles, but they look like this. Each of the Boathouses on the Charles has at least a half a dozen of these, if you look at Google imagery. CRI...

Boston v. Toronto is a bit of an unfair comparison, though. Toronto is the 4th biggest metro area in North America, Boston is 17th. Plus, the TTC historically seems less underinvested than the T - their 2023 SOGR backlog was $17B CAD (~12.5B USD) compared to the T's $24.5B USD, and across a much...

Actually... That might be an interesting point. Rowing Sculls, especially heavy 8s, can easily reach 12+ mph. I don't know about their speeds on the twisty bit, but the Head of the Charles course records were set at 10-13 mph paces overall. The coaches for those teams are often out on the river...

Personally, I like it - too much of the same is just... boring and feels very corporate. It's very much a thing for hotels to want a identity and personality - Variety, especially in poppy colors, provides some visual cues that otherwise would be lacking. If that view had identical sofas and...

The following graphics were from the first community meeting, and not included in the final report, but they do a decent job of illustrating where folks want to go. The Central Segment, which includes Leominster, Fitchburg and Wachusett, notably doesn't have a particularly strong demand for...

MassDOT released the full Northern Tier Passenger Rail Study a couple of days ago, and is accepting comment through the 27th. Predictably, the study notes that "the benefit-cost analysis indicates that the benefits may not offset the capital costs required for implementation." Ultimately...

Don't kid... I seriously considered it. The issue is the RFID card's antenna - that keychain is small, and I doubt I can actually get it to fit. That said... I should be able to stuff that into a N-Scale PCC... Ideas, ideas... Edit: Wait. I have access to a .1mm accurate resin 3d printer. I...

Semi-reasonable not-really-transit pitch - with the launch of CharlieCard 2.0, the T has the opportunity to do something special. Combined with the processing fee issue, the T should continue to encourage use of CharlieCards rather than tappable credit cards, so it should make the CharlieCard...

Some amount of parking expansion was always going to be part of this project, what with there being three levels of it already on top of the existing Bus Station - it made sense to carry that across. The 2006 project originally only had 755 spaces - but it also only included 127 residential...

Given that the Army CoE seems to want to get rid of its bridge portfolio, as evidenced by it's intent to transfer the Bourne and Sagamores to MassDOT after their replacements, I wouldn't be surprised if the Corps is angling for MassDOT to ultimately take ownership of the Cape Rail Bridge as well...

Didn't they announce this options exercise way back in May? The seats aren't great, but to me they aren't appreciably worse than most short haul train seats I've been on. I just hope the T eventually figures out how to not make a brand new train somehow feel like a product of the 1970 and 80s...

Huh. I looked this up since that didn't look like 3rd Ave - looks like these "fence panels" are being deployed more widely as a low cost quick build in addition to the planned pilot full height platform doors at 3rd Ave. (And two other stations). NYC folks seem pretty dismissive of these so...

To be fair, those European examples of reuse are all Victorian/ pre war "gas holders / gasometers" - those metal in the UK (often brick outside of it) frames pictured above were basically a guide shell for a telescoping gas balloon. There's excellent examples of reuse across europe, but there's...