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The Red Line trains at least got their mid life overhauls, and the 1800s are just newer, so they're probably in a better material state than the OLs cars were in 2022 when they were withdrawn. As for post-delivery support, just about every bit that would need support was built by...

The contract reset was all of 3 months ago. For a major industrial procurement like this, that's basically no time at all - most things take time to implement. The reset gives CRRC until the end of 2027 to deliver the remaining 262 cars out of 404 total. To do that over the 41 months they have...

Actually, that'd be quite a fun topic. This is an American stadium after all, its going to have a corporate sponsor's name attached to it. Who do we think is willing, or do we want, to splash their brand across this thing? Just sports related Boston has the HQs of New Balance, Reebok, Puma...

I'm going to start a thread for this, because I believe this is something that has the potential to affect the entire built environment in MA / New England generally. First off: What is Pyrrhotite, and why is it a problem? Pyrrhotite is a naturally occurring mineral, a type of pyrite (Fool's...

And with that, there are no more Hawker Siddley cars on property. Can't wait until we get the same news for the Red Line.

If you dig deep into the new red and orange car spec, which is where I extracted the track profiles from, they include details on the blue line dynamic envelope as well as track geometry. I have the track charts for both Green and Blue - I'll upload them momentarily as an edit to this post - but...

I have a copy of the Red Line Track chart from ~2016, but it's speed section is blank. But I do have an undated copy of a track profile that does include the ATO speeds, probably dating to the 70s when the extensions were built. I'll attach a PDF to this post (it'll be somewhat compressed so...

ESL would be a sham either way, since Bayern Munich, Dortmund and PSG refused to participate, and I believe that the new UK government just reintroduced the football governance bill which should ban the UK clubs from joining any sort of ESL esque league. It does say something though that a lot...

My opinion, the Tufts curve speed restrictions identified by the FTA SMI that required 400 cologne eggs, that was necessary work at the time. Without it that stretch would probably be equivalent to Red's Charles restrictions by now. That said, they continued to replace cologne eggs every...

Err as I recall the cut for the canal is significantly deeper than where the water level would imply. I could be mistaken since if I'm heading to the cape I usually using the Bourne which does have fairly steep approaches, but at least for the Sagamore I believe the bridge deck is more or less...

Looking at the slow zones tracker though, they've managed to get through a not insignificant portion of the work planned for that area in previous shutdowns. It looks like the August shutdown was originally intended to cure 1.7 miles and 9 slow zones. By my count, there's only 3500ft (.67mi) and...

I mean... Now I'm picturing a Chunnel LeShuttle style thing here as a ferry substitute. It's a similar distance and could probably work?

Here's a version of that map with geographic markers. The group that's proposing this has had it out since 2021, but hasn't gotten much uptake on it from anyone in a position to do anything about it. As a routing I would also say that it's much less squiggly, but it's very much "not serious...

Fans of Boston's various college sports teams would like to have a word. As I recall, NEU, BU, BC basketball/hockey games generally get decent home attendance and BC alumni field needs its 44k capacity, with average attendance of 35k in 2022. Given the paucity in tournament appearances for those...

That isn't as much on the market being able to support the team, though i take your point that SF isn't the best example. the abysmal attendance this year is part of a fan revolt against that move to Vegas. Granted, it was always towards the bottom, but it used to hover around the Orioles and...

... And so what if we add a 5th team to the market? Just domestically Washington/Baltimore is roughly the same market size, and does just fine supporting 7 total teams, including 2 NFL teams and 2 MLB teams. San Francisco has no problem with 2 MLB teams either, and both have MLS teams who got...

A ton. Leeds United sold last year for £213m - had it not been relegated it would have been closer to £500m. But the other part of that is most of the English teams outside the premier league "franchise clubs" - Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool etc - aren't actually worth that much. Just look...

The fact is, NFL, NBA, NHL teams are only world champions because it's not played anywhere else. Soccer, international football whatever you call it is a global pursuit, and as a global city Boston should have a team, and we should be proud of that team. So what if MLS or the Revs aren't...

The main issue is the layout of the site, as the stadium is only proposed for a portion of it. As rendered, On one side you have the Eversource substation, and on the other you have units 8&9 - all of which will be remaining. In that space, the old smokestacks are basically in the center - if...

Regardless if the stadium is happening or not, this is happening. The T got a $22.4M federal grant last month to build hybrid center running bus lanes and bike/ped improvements on Alford / lower Broadway.