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I believe I read on one of the old presentations that the machinery is obsolete and very hard to maintain in working condition

I am still not convinced that this project rounds up to half a billion dollars.

Someone was saying earlier an automated light metro would be cool. Kind of a green line+. Another idea that I thought was cool was using the same station design several times, kind of digging boxes and building the same thing with minor adjustments.

The arg is as the other poster said above, if you believe that the cost of fare collection and the cost of fare enforcement is greater than the revenue it recoups, then it only makes sense to do so as a punishment for riders (who are generally poorer). It's like when you ride WMATA and you get...

We are a bit like NYC in that democracy has decayed pretty heavily. The reasons we got Eng are basically whoever had Healey's ear at the time. So we need to do elite persuasion, so that's 1) the mysterious "advocates" that have an elevated voice for what agencies listen to 2) the politician...

I think most harvard projects end up in the enterprise research campus thread. From what you said it looks like this one will near the square? That's cool.

Nothing life changing, just some appreciation for Track 1!

Not sure if this was clear but construction fencing has been largely removed so you can go check this out pretty close in person if you like. I also spotted an energy recovery ventilator in the building so looks like some high efficiency hvac going on which couldn’t have been cheap.

Luckily it seems like this can be realistically reconfigured if the T wishes to do it. I would assume they understand concerns about fare evasion and are used to the bus driver being at the front to demand payment. Definitely a wait and see situation

My fellow Lechmere heads will be interested in this story. This fence gate is brand new! For the past year there has been no fence gate, and people cut through the gap in the fence to walk from the sidewalk to the bus loop and thus to the train. Clearly the gate was planned for, but forgotten...

Logically yes this would be OK as long as it could be activated street level wise. However I think there is a ton of value to be had in destroying the temples and monuments of urban renewalists. If they say, "well, what we did was bad, but at least we got these sick buildings out of it!" you...

New and exciting ways to light money on fire.

As long as we leave this building and its friends, city hall and the flat part of the JFK building stand, we are letting the urban renewal guys win. Stop giving them what they want! Let’s have a city with real buildings built by developers trying to make money, not whatever that is.

I can definitely at least attest to the space constraints of Wally b. There’s a whole basketball court and dorm on top of it.

Am I crazy or is this (Nortth station northbound) sign new?

It's weird how certain people just "get" to be in positions of power like that. I would be happy to for example, be a university president, chair an important nonprofit, have a high ranking MBTA position, and lots of others here would too. And I'd happily take 1/10 the salary these guys command...

Walter brown would be great but I was told that the “media facilities” are subpar. Which I find funny, I mean you go to a basketball game and there’s 20 guys playing on their laptops in court side seats — is that what we want? My vision for the pwhl would be it would be a sport that people go to...

I have submitted the short form proposal

Has the MBTA ever considered painting rails white to help with heat dilation? It is apparently standard practice in some European countries. I could see this being useful at Lechmere to keep speeds up. People were saying it can reduce the track temperature by up to 10F I know doing something...

I appreciate someone trying to solve that BU bridge riddle, but I'm not sure if all of those routings work. We've had a couple debates on this forum about how to do it in the past. RE: A branch bike lanes, obviously we care about trains more than bikes. Not sure why this is a question.