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There isn't a dock near South Station that would work; service would have to be from either Rowes Wharf or the Seaport World Trade Center.

I hope there's an official "Goodbye to the 1200 series" event; the last cars to run on the Washington Street Elevated deserve a better send-off than "No train service".

It could be about busses platforming at the green line stops?

A dual-mode locomotive would be a good idea. A tri-mode? With batteries? Are wires that hard?

Artificial Intelligence will help with the bus driver shortage by driving heavy rail subway trains, freeing up dozens of human operators to drive busses.

At least one BOS-SPG train should be timed to enable cross-platform transfers to the "Vermonter" in Springfield, definitely.

A Viewliner slumbercoach would be interesting; fully lie-flat coach seats would probably be the modern alternative.

Hmmm, if a combined BOS/NYP overnight train that splits in Albany is a good idea, why not add a Boston section to the daytime Adirondack as well? Even if it's less useful for BOS-MTL travelers than the overnight train, it certainly could be useful for Bostonians traveling to Albany or upstate...

Plus, Boston North Station hasn't handled an overnight train since the Gull stopped running in 1960, so there are no facilities for crew rest, catering, or laundry. The train would have to be shuttled over the Grand Junction to Southampton Yard for that stuff, *if* Amtrak would allow it.

The *GLX* project speed is 50 mph. The Lechemere viaduct rehabilitation was technically not part of the GLX project.

According to multiple operators, the wire was installed incorrectly the first time around.

Also, the transitway is designed to accommodate a green line branch I think.

How about an MWRA alum? Those guys have lots of experience running a transportation system in Massachusetts (for water admittedly), and have been quietly maintaining old and constructing new infrastructure for the better part of three decades with very few failures.

Can they outfit a trailer as an OCC simulator? If trainees can spend even one less week on actual boards that will let them ten classes in the time it currently takes to train nine.

Are they provisioning for a Red Line tunnel as well?

They aren't publishing this data, but they are releasing trip time information. Transitmatters is simply comparing those trip time numbers with a baseline. Sidenote: the fact that the T does publicly release this kind of data and has for years is a genuinely good thing which the agency should...

Talked to a trolley operator about that one; he said it was an issue with the overhead wires, not the structure itself. Apparently (need to confirm this), someone forgot that they were supposed to be zig-zagged above the tracks when they were first installed (so the pantograph wears evenly). The...

We didn't have the power to compel the T to do things.

Oh, *loads*. Check them out for yourself at https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/slowzones

Why add another coach if it's just going to sell out again. /s