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I think I found the problem! Who's going to sign up to drive a bus for that? Especially with all the other issues of being the low person in seniority for picking shifts, needing to get/maintain a CDL (and the restrictions on substance use even off the clock), etc. I don't know what a bus...

Do these actually exist for sale in North America/seem likely to exist in the future from a sufficient variety of vendors to get reasonable pricing/have any sort of negotiating power? I ask, as hasn't that been part of why the MBTA has had trouble with what to do with the SL fleet and the...

Disagree, although I don't get the emphasis on stormwater retention. There is a very simple solution to too much water building up behind the floodgate from runoff/waterway flow down the waterway - big pumps. Floodgates are not exactly new technology, and Fort Point Channel is one of the single...

The basic concept of a floodgate seems like an obvious no-brainer, and is the kind of thing that astounds me hasn't been already prioritized. Fund and build it as fast as possible, in that sense. It has significant benefits today, not just for future-proofing. It also looks like it makes sense...

Pretty sure that is more explained by Alewife not existing until a decade after the bridge was built. Acorn Park was a large employment center at the time, and was much more isolated from any other access to any non-car connections beyond it than it is today. Somewhat ironic that only a couple...

They might be referring to the actual text of the RFQ. Which spends 1.5 pages of it's ~3 page length, talking about all the different Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion requirements and the multiple ways they'd like you to write essays about your commitments to those things. Further, from the...

Worth keeping in mind that the Everett St Bridge is not open underneath between Braintree St + what is today "Harvey Steel Rd", it's a not particularly attractive vertical wall/earthen mound that blocks any pedestrian flows E/W along the length of that building and will keep it feeling cut off...

I think the point they were trying to make was regarding dedicated lanes or separate busways. Buses being stuck in traffic is a political choice in that sense, not one inherently required to be a thing that happens on buses in busy areas.

I'd go further and say that it's absolutely absurd to build any rail service west of Springfield that isn't going to Albany.

Can't agree. Cheap projects with good ROI + ridership numbers are exactly where investment should be directed, and if the project could actually be done for that cost/inflation-adjusted cost with that ridership, the MBTA ought to be cutting a check today to do it. Whether or not that study is...

Pre-pandemic there was Concord Coach service from Concord (via Nashua) to NYC. It was scheduled at 5h30min Concord-NYC, 4h45min Nashua-NYC. It currently remains "suspended". That said, it was only 1-2x/day each way, and was aimed at a somewhat premium market - $140-150 for a round trip to/from...

Tinkering at the margins, but: Cut the 88 (or mostly cut - not sure about the school trips), redistribute service to the 87/89/90? Inbound boardings Davis-Lechmere are going to crater with GLX. No one is going to be boarding a bus to Lechmere from Highland Ave when they could just board the...

On a monthly basis ridership was climbing slowly every month January through August, but still only at 28% of January 2020 ridership. 737k weekly riders vs 2.63m - however, that *is* still a whole lot better than the 222k it was doing in January 2021. I don't see any September totals in that...

The article doesn't mention them being able to use the shoulder. I'd certainly hope they'll be allowed, though.

So, while I'm supportive of this.....what buses actually use I-93? I see the 354, Logan Express, and one MVRTA round trip (route 99 - is their website broken or is there really only one trip a day? That seems absurd.) as the only services.

I don't think that's that fair to Newton. They've just approved some pretty major new developments at both Riverside and the Northland site in Upper Falls. And in the cast of the latter, after a town-wide vote where the locals voted in favor of it by >5000 votes. Yes, in typical Boston tradition...

If the long ramp is a problem for you, are you really walking/rolling some long distance to get to the station in the first place and not parking or being dropped off at the other (main) head-house where the drop-off area is? Theoretical riders who could use this end via foot, are going to be...

Counter argument for Newtonville - why not just a ramp down from Harvard St? (like the existing stairs) Anyone walking from the east is walking the same distance whether they walk down a long ramp and platform or if they walk another 500ft on Washington and *then* enter the station (at the...

Because there's a lot more people who primarily drive than people who primarily take the T at a statewide level, and they vote. I'm sorry, but I think it's wild fantasy land to imagine that any of this besides maybe a Boston CBD congestion charge is getting past the MA legislature, or MA...

Generally those bus on shoulder lanes are only used when traffic is moving slowly and the bus doesn't drive 70mph past the lanes of stop & go traffic. Being slightly familiar with Colorado's US-36 (Denver-Boulder) bus on shoulder operations, the bus only uses it when the general purpose lanes...