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@Brattle Loop has already made most of the elaborations on my post that I was going to make, so: Thank you, kind stranger, for saving me a good half hour at the keyboard. Hats off. A few further points: Actually, yes. I do think that free enterprise, in this specific case, is not working. Pan...

Not necessarily. A private railroad would fix up the track, sure, but then they would be the ones reaping the financial rewards from doing so, not the taxpayer. The state having control over how the railroad operates would be good for the actual freight service provided in a number of other...

If the sale to CSX gets shot down, NNEPRA should buy Pan Am, or at least a controlling share of a holding company that owns it. One can only imagine how many trucks could be taken off the road every year by a well-managed, well-maintained railroad with easy access to government loans that's...

Yeah this proposal is pretty much that, but without the branching and with a different routing north of North Station. Didn't quite remember all the details.

Ooh, but that *is* a good idea.

I have to beg to disagree that this is a service downgrade for folks on the Braintree branch. Even though they loose their one-seat ride to MGH, their service frequency doubles overnight. If they want to get to MGH, they can change to the Red Line at JFK, Andrew or Broadway.

"Yellow Line" subway: 1: Take over the Braintree Branch of the Red Line from Columbia Junction 2: Stops at Andrew, Broadway and South Station Under Under. 3: Congress Street Subway, connections to State and Haymarket(?) 4: Tunnel under the Charles River 5: Stop at Navy Yard/Spaulding Hospital...

In preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Henri, the entire D branch is currently shut down. While the fact that pretty much the entire line runs under blow-downable tree cover is part of it, part of the reason for the complete shutdown is definitely the storm surge barriers that stop any...

Talked with a construction worker at Harvard Square today who suggested that the lower busway could re-open as early as next week. Looking at the progress they've made over this most recent lower busway closure, it certainly seems possible.

T officials have stated publically that the curb-running rendering is ancient and got used in a presentation recently for lack of a better option. They recognize that keeping the transit in the center of South Huntington is a better solution and want to make it very clear that that's the plan.

Putting your bike on the subway is probably the perfect (and quickest) way to get downtown for pretty much everyone on the Red Line. It's a real shame this will be less practical once trains are crowded at rush hours again. Here's an idea: lengthen twenty or so red line sets to nine cars. The...

How about leasing air rights over the North Cambridge Carhouse?

Currently, there is a Green Line train sitting just behind the Brattle Loop platform at Government Center. Earlier today, there was one all the way up on the platform itself. If I were looking for a place to park a consist to use for testing the new Lechemere viaduct, this would be it...

Could they just order another pair of type nines to make up any shortfall?

Around and around we go. The upper busway has re-opened at Harvard, and the lower one has re-closed.

Work proceeds apace at the Mount Auburn end of the Harvard Square bus subway. Here, a group of workmen is installing new curbs after successfully chipping a few inches off of the busway surface here.

Good news: the painful outbound speed restriction between Charles/MGH and Kendall Square appears to have been lifted as of a week ago. Graph courtesy of Transitmatters' data dashboard.

The consolidated B branch station at Babcock street is looking pretty swish. Sorry re: photo artifacts; our green line train was moving pretty quick for the B.

Yup. Here's an O-Bahn trolleybus in Essen running into a tram subway.

Here's a newer video from Adelaide of O-Bahn busses running on a guideway in a tunnel at what appears to be about 35 MPH. It seems that the raised guideway in the earlier video is simply a consequence of the construction circumstances on that particular segment of track (it was built on a...