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I believe New Flyer makes some. Most if not all modern trolleybusses come with some off-wire capability as well, even those marketed as non-battery busses.

Seriously, I get the T's reluctance to keep maintaining a fleet of busses that lengthen operator training by weeks, can only be used on two routes, and require specialized maintenance personnel to run. Instead of getting rid of the wires, though, the T should be expanding the system-which would...

Transit Matters ripped the hell out of this document on their Twitter account a while back. The T's math is still funny.

How about commuter rail group fares? If you're traveling on off-peak trains in a group of three or more people, each person rides for $5. This would be primarily aimed at families, but also any group of friends looking to go downtown for a concert, or out to the woods or the beach for a day.

It would be an enormous boon to construction of every sort if MassDot conducted an organized "utility census" every year/two years that would produce up-to-date underground maps of every street in every community with >some number of people. The fact that every project, transit or otherwise, has...

Definitely a good question.

Hmm. It doesn't appear that this project includes a gauntlet track for freight trains. How's that going to work with the high-levels?

Are there any pictures of a skateboard? Any idea where this rumor started?

The fact that ridership is up on bus routes that share the #28 corridor makes sense. If riders are drawn to the corridor by free service on the #28 bus and then have to stand around waiting, they might decide that they're willing to pay $1.70/$2.00 to avoid a wait for the next #28 and jump on...

Maybe they're getting baseline numbers for potential travel times over the busway that they'll then factor in to route schedules and from there into driver and vehicle availability tables.

How about a shuttle train from Sullivan Square to Medford? Not sure how much room there is on the ROW, but it seems wide enough for one track+passing sidings.

The best way to get overnight service BOS-MTL in the near future is to have an overnight train that splits in Springfield with one leg going to New York/Washington and another going down the B&A to Boston. The two hours don't matter so much when people are sleeping through the journey, and the...

It is September 25th, 2250. Humans have figured out FTL travel and colony ships are on their way to three neighboring star systems. The Third American Republic has been declared in Philadelphia. The Red Line will be closed this weekend between Harvard and Alewife for floating slab repairs.

Other potential funding sources for the T (that would have the secondary benefit of improving regional connectivity and allowing the T to work more holistically as "The agency that gets you where you're going in the Boston Area"): 1) Taxis. Transport for London operates every Taxi in the city...

One hundred percent agreed. I think you've made some fairly convincing arguments that the T would end up loosing money on the deal, but the numbers *just might work*.

Why thank you. The thing is the two customer bases are...not that different. The same tourists that are riding Old Town Trolleys could also be taking the subway to the Aquarium, or to Stone Zoo, or the Fenway Park or Harvard University, or at the very minimum back to Logan to get their flight...

In Edinburgh, tourist busses (think: Old Town Trolley Tours) are operated by the local public transit operator, not a private tour company (although the tour bus routes run with their own dedicated equipment and tour guides). This offers several concrete and several more theoretical advantages...

I talked to an operator about that, actually. He said the reason that they can't run the type 9's past Brigham Circle is the plug doors. This seems like a fundamental issue, but it's actually remarkably fixable. On the type 7's and 8's, one leaf of the "front" door on the cars folds out and...

The best solution would be to do what the T did when they opened the Southwest Corridor Orange Line in the 80's: Just make the new stations free until the new fare system can be put in place.

The shuttle service you've described is exactly the setup I'd imagined. Definitely the biggest obstacle are those couple dozen feet of yard trackage that might not be cleared for revenue use. On foot or on a bicycle late at night, getting across Boston Harbor is literally impossible. Water...