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Architects in 2024 vs power plant designers from a hundred years ago, who did it better? Who would see the waterfront for all its potential? We all know.

These headways are just a dream! Thank you MBTA! 😉

Should have added two more towers.

They are designed to hold the load of the bridge which pushes down, as the original poster noted you'd want something designed to protect from impacts to the side. If you look at the photo below, you've probably seen something that looks like this. However you'd need something a lot bigger to...

There's a type 8 car where one set of accessible doors doesn't open, so the operator has to announce it at each stop. Somehow I've managed to get stuck with that car twice this week. Type 10 can't come soon enough!

It seems wild that the Type 9's would not be well loved... they're attractive and comfortable cars. I remember when they started coming out average people would brag to each other about getting to ride one of the new cars since it was so rare. I think a lot of poeple who didn't know thought that...

Thankful that the friendly green line operator is grinding this axe so I don't have to. Good points all around. Of course if we had an actual crosstown bus on Vassar St we wouldn't have this issue since it'd take 15 minutes rather than an hour+ to do some of these trips.

In terms of pleasing enthusiasts like us -- probably Eng should have asked the GLX team to stay on, announced that planning of one of the more achievable light rail projects we want is starting, but has to wait for state of good repair to actually break ground. And then for bonus points announce...

Agreed, and not to be a doomsayer, but I think for the average person, saying something is 20+ years out is as good as saying it won't happen. Who knows if I'll even live here then? What career I'll be in? I can't really sit on my thumb waiting for new rail lines until then.

It seems like a lot of the retrospectives claim it was falling apart and had to come down either way. Now based on what you guys said how much that was true vs people claiming to be scared of it falling over to get it torn down. For what it's worth the new Lechmere El is quite quiet and...

I think this is a good analysis, I guess I would prefer long term expansion plans coming from the MBTA that we can then chew on and comment on. There's only been one sizeable rapid transit expansion in my lifetime, and I don't see any chatter from state leaders for more beyond NSRL stuff. So my...

Happy to concede that point. It is more interesting to wonder about what it hard than what it obvious.

This seems plainly true to me. Is there evidence to suggest otherwise? I feel like ever since I learned about this it's seemed very odd to me that nobody is proposing restoring the elevated. You would think with the focus on equity nowadays that the fact we replaced heavy rail service to a...

Why are they waiting on model data, deferring to model data, etc. etc. and then letting that determine the design and how many lanes they are putting in? We should be determining what we want from the project, and then later predicting how that would effect the environment. If you do the model...

Rode a type 9 to Kenmore and things were smooth and fast. I noticed at the station they put in new gravel on the outer westbound tracks. So much so that it seems like the train wheels smashed some of the rocks up. There’s also this break in the tracks which I assume is normal but seemed a little...

Skyline is starting to look a little layered which is cool. I wonder how long the abandoned building next to it will last. It’s really a pleasant building to look at in person. Would love any kind of first floor activation nearby though, I think the only restaurant near here is a sweet green...

I think the implication of that user's comment (not to speak for them) was that it's an artifact of the train itself that it derails, as in its due to the age of the train / a design flaw. Obviously we don't know yet the reason for the derailment. But the age of the track itself may not be the...

I think the consensus on the green line lately has been that there's already a lot of variability and other issues it has, and that operators were not always respecting speed restrictions, so projected time savings are not always seen right away. They need to do the track repairs either way...

I posted in preparation of me taking the Lowell line again last night. This could be me misreading hwo fast we were actually going, but there are significant stretches, especially in the first third of the journey, where the train seemed to be at a crawl (5-10mph). My expectation for a...

As a lifelong Downeaster person, I rode the Lowell line for the first time a couple months ago. Was shocked by how slow it is. Theoretically it's one of the oldest railroads in the US, certainly not new service, and yet it takes 45 minutes to an hour to go 25 miles. The train was crawling along...