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Note that's only showing jet traffic. Cape Air's Cessnas and other prop planes aren't included in that. I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if they weren't using it with how low traffic has been, just noting that that's not a complete list of operations.

There are a lot of Cape Air flights. And there is general aviation traffic at Logan, I assume at least some of it is small enough for it?

So....you're not a fan of Bell Circle and having to cross the road 6 times (on 4 separate lights + an unsignaled one) to get across one intersection on foot? :LOL:

OMNY is getting implemented on Metro-North and LIRR, both of have even more complicated zoned fare schemes than the MBTA runs.

I'm skeptical of this. I just don't think a thing people can't see and they don't live near can really galvanize NIMBYism in the same way as the turbines themselves or on-shore transmission lines can. Feels too abstract and distant to matter to most people, in my view.

To me this seems like as much of an example of poor communication and inconsistent updates out of the T as anything else. To date, the project page: https://www.mbta.com/projects/mattapan-line-transformation, has received no updates since 2019 (and the documents there still list the 2020...

Just mentioning - That is totally a thing and tons of people will do that if you give them the option. In the non-COVID times, IKEA in Brooklyn runs both a shuttle bus from downtown Brooklyn (Borough Hall) and a subsidizes ferry rides from Manhattan (Wall St) to get people to the store and...

I don't think that (mostly) interferes with fixing this curve, though. The S curve looks to begin after the southern end of the platforms and the platforms are straight, at least to my eye. There are access paths that continue further south along the line (to W Jersey St) that would probably...

225ft is the intended platform length to run both a 3 car train with current equipment and a 2 car train with the future longer cars. Source: 5/7/18 Future Capacity Study presentation (slide 19 + 41-45)

F-Line probably has the legal reasoning lined up, but I'll also argue that it's probably not worth it to make a priority. Maybe as a long-term thing, but seems of little value in the 15 year timeframe this map is supposed to be about investments for. There's not a thing worth noting past Pueblo...

I see this: https://www.cambridgeday.com/2021/04/26/somerville-may-be-freed-of-50m-that-it-promised-to-keep-green-line-extension-project-alive-in-2016/ Brief quote:

Tacking onto this (and mentioned in the article), while Roxbury Crossing-Jackson Sq is only for the 22, the Roxbury Crossing-Ruggles section has a half-dozen bus routes on it that merge in from the SE (via Malcom X Blvd). Some of which are also extremely high ridership routes, like the 28, 15...

There's ~2 story grade change from Soldiers Field Place to Birmingham Parkway. Look at the height of the retaining walls on the Vinfen building for an idea. Not saying it's insurmountable, but it'll be at least somewhat awkward to try to do that. ------------ Former bike/ped and sometimes car...

If I'm reading the CIP correctly, it looks like $9.62m is getting spent on the project this year, in addition to the $11.63m spent in prior years? I'm confused as well as to what's being done this year, I was under the impression the project was supposed to be mostly wrapped up last year...

Depends on where you start your reference at. Relative to the recent January low - Yes, ridership is climbing. But that's barely back to the October levels (before ridership crashed again w/case spikes), and looks like <30% of pre-pandemic ridership. Raw ridership data through 3/16 here...

It's a large beach, beaches are popular (and in a pre-widespread cheap flights world, I think there was more political capital in expanding/improving access), there was apparently an easy right of way available. Seems like all the logic you need to lay 11mi of flat asphalt in the 1950s? It's not...

The "Emergency Access Path" that is being built according to that presentation + is going to have ramps to the south/inbound platform would provide nearly as short of a walking distance for access from much of the neighborhood to the S/SE as tying into the bridge would, at far less cost/or...

Kingston did ~650 riders/day and based on 2018 parking occupancy, had ~400 cars/day parked there. I think it's a tall stretch to say that the 600 new apartment units are going to generate more riders in total than Kingston does as a parking sink for the wider area. Next to a train line or not...

Not really the case here (and there will not be any trains passing). Plymouth Station has never had any useful service (other than maybe for a day trip tourist?....but the station's nowhere near downtown) and was doing 21 riders a day in 2018. Pre-COVID schedules were 4 inbounds a day, with...

I'll counter argue to some extent: Widespread PHEVs, even if many aren't actually being used as hoped much of the time, still gets us past the big adoption chicken/egg issue and makes private infrastructure investment without government mandate/subsidy covering most of the costs, a way more...