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So, fun fact: per Wikipedia the general service pattern you're proposing got a full workup by the then Secretary of Transportation in 2006, after the federal grant application for phase 3 got pulled. The general routing would have used the Essex leg, built a transfer to Park and DTX using what...

My understanding, that render is actually from the MBTAs multimode locomotive RFI, which also explains the Siemens Charger.

Apologies for the double post, but I went through an embarrassingly large number of Flirt datasheets. Apparently, Stadler built a dozen Intercity Flirts for Belarus with a 1240mm floor height, as well as 20 for Poland with 1180mm. They also built 20 of the commuter variant at 1180mm for Lodz...

I would imagine, given the momentum the stadium seems to currently have, that it's need for improved pedestrian infrastructure between Alford and Sullivan would actually tend to drive the project forward - it would, and has, put the existing conditions much more in the public and political...

🤷‍♂️ I'm just reporting on the verbal Q&A content of the meeting. I'll grant they've been very careful not to say anything definitive regarding the vehicle maker but it very much feels as if the the working assumption is that we're in trail behind CA and Metra with Stadler. Director Smart: "I...

As I recall, the Rutherford project limits extended all the way to the foot of the Alford Street bridge. Given the ... nebulousness ... of the stadium proposal's transportation plan and absent any published traffic studies, pedestrian or otherwise, I wouldn't be surprised to hear if it's still...

Worth noting though that BARTs order is genuinely huge. It's currently at 775 delivered with 305 to go - that's a lot of room for improvements and options exercises. That's proper rate production right there. Whereas in Boston, we paid very little for the CRRC contract given the condition...

Here's the important detail though - they're only leasing them, and only 3-5 sets. Given the T's financial situation it makes sense, and means that we get to give them back if the first gen batteries in these things suck, and that the T is wanting to put in some - they didn't say how much -...

So low quality thanks to Livestream quality, but the mockup has been built.... And it's kinda ugly? It doesn't look a huge amount like the renders we were shown.

No, they're all gone - those were the last two old Orange Line cars.

Considering its DCAMM overseeing the process, yes. Also, the Healey Administration will likely prove unwilling to ceed control to the city - it looks like DCAMM will be more "muscular" under Healey in leading the redevelopment process. The MCI Concord legislation is probably a good example of...

I would generally agree - the travel times make a difference, especially in BOS or DCA where our airports on one end of the trip is (usually) super easily accessible. Per Wikipedia, the Acela BOS-NYP and NYP-WAS routes are roughly the same distance, but NYP-WAS being~45 minutes and ~16mph faster...

Count me amongst the few who actually like the details of the Government services Center (Granted, I actually like the Lindemann - I don't care about the Hurley as much.) I personally feel it's a good building epically let down by how the state uses it. This approach, through the building into...

First off, the full quote is “As with any major project, the impacts depend entirely on the details, and there have been no publicly or privately shared details about this proposal which includes Boston land in the parcel and would likely create more significant impact on Boston’s neighborhoods...

The point being? that's an agreement with Everett, NOT the City of Boston. It addresses Everett's concerns with the stadiums impact, Not Boston's. Look at the signing and notices page - the only municipal folks who got a copy of it or signed it was Everett, and you'll see the City of Boston...

Good timing, since I've been reading up on the original Phase 3 proposal, but the loop is actually over the CAT. (While I'm here, anyone have a good idea of where I can track down a copy of that 2009 FTA funding report?) Never mind, I found it but it's not as useful as I thought.

If you want specifics, Harvard puts out a annual financial report (PDF) every year, but here are some extracts. Notice how little of the endowment is dedicated to Capital/ Construction; of its distribution, seemingly almost all of the distribution is transferred into the operational budget...

Strictly speaking the city has the ability to do that, via eminent domain, redevelopment agencies and urban renewal programs. This would have been one of the reasons to not disband the BDPA ... But the city has bad memories of having done so in the past. As far as I'm aware, MA is one of 3...

Well, the 2007 rebuild clearly wasn't very well thought through then - especially since apparently the ashmont loop needs to come down and doesn't even have a minihigh. That said, I don't see necessarily how the minihigh bridge plate wouldn't be considered mostly akin to a on-board deployable...

I think of Quincy like Boston's New Jersey. - It's a self selecting group who want SFH and their cars, but also to be able to drive to a train downtown.