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I found some footage of North Atlantic rail trainsets during their hour-long slog along LIRR tracks from the tunnel portal to NYP; I hear the dedicated high-speed line from the tunnel portal into New York will be built "any day now".

Really don't see why they couldn't just plug a cheap MP3 player with recordings of all the station announcements into the speaker system. Edit: Yes I can, because minimizing operator workload as much as possible is important for safety.

The "General Hooker Entrance" needed some competition for the easiest-to-misunderstand sign in Massachusetts, I see.

Fire Baker. Pollack is very good at her job and knows that she can't do anything the governor doesn't want.

Yes, but this is also the second piece of commuter rail infrastructure (the first piece being the Gloucester Draw) that has broken before it could be fixed or replaced within the past year. Really inspires confidence in the rest of the system's infrastructure.

It seems odd to spend money on BRT to Acton when the Fitchburg line is Right There.

Apparently the commuter rail has sent a message to train crews saying that Winchester Station is "Now closed indefinitely". Drop-offs only for the rest of today (January 7th), no service after that. This seems to indicate that a structural issue has developed that has rendered the station...

More pictures of the renovated busway: Some attempt has been made at a curb cutting near the boarding area, allowing the busses to pull closer to the platform (in theory). With the lower busway lowered by six inches, how does the T deal with the different grades between the two halves? To...

The Harvard Lower Busway is re-open for business. New trolley wires have been hung, and routes 71 and 73 are back to their original routings. Keen eyes may have noticed that the curb seems to be noticeably higher now, and yes, it is. Six or so inches have been ground and jackhammered off of...

What project work can take place while there's snow on the ground? Have there been any electrical/signaling systems put in yet that could be tested?

Some people I know are very excited indeed about inductive charging/operation of busses/trolleybuses (embedding wires under the street like in the pilot linked below in Bremen), and think it's the future of trackless trolley operations. It seems like there would be serious efficiency drops/other...

MassDot's "Industrial Rail Access Program", which in their words "Is a competitive state-funded public/private partnership program that provides financial assistance to eligible applicants to invest in industry-based rail infrastructure access improvement projects," just announced the 2021...

If you go back up now yup, all the bulbs are re-lit.

Also, if at some point we want to lower the lane count on either the Pike or Soldier's Field Road (essential in a zero-carbon future), it would be far easier to do on an at-grade highway than it is on a viaducted highway.

Out of curiosity I checked Google maps and yes, there is a train station at Stanstead airport that's served by both regular intercity trains to/from London and Cambridge (and a few other places), as well as a special half-hourly shuttle service to London Liverpool Street.

Contractors working on the lower level of the Harvard Square bus subway appear to be installing new mounting brackets for TT wires in the tunnel roof.

They might be running slightly less service, but yup. New York doesn't have enough yard space to store all their trains, so they have to keep some of them on the rails at all times.

It's also kind of rich that they cite the sorry state of the overhead wires as a reason to rip them out, without mentioning how they got to be in such a sorry state to begin with.

I've had many conversations with Rep. Garballey and can tell you right now that that would be preaching to the choir. He's already firmly in the "Raise revenues for more and better service" camp.

I called up Sean Garballey to ask about this, and he told me that he has asked the T for a number of dollars it needs to preserve current service levels and they waffled a great deal before failing to give him a number. This does not bode well.