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There are places where the whole implementation has basically been led by the owner of the traffic camera systems. Those have tended to be the places with these predatory behaviours. However, there's a difference between an increase in the rate of rear-end crashes versus T-bone crashes. A T-bone...

Sunday afternoon Route 1 service was A BUNCH OF 2s! (i.e. bunched buses). While clearly bus lanes are needed - the T needs to do a much better job of dispatching - leaving Nubian and Harvard bunched is just ... pure laziness.

This is in the realm of kinda crazy stuff re: Route 1 on Mass Ave - I think a lot could be resolved if they closed the pike on-ramp at Newbury St. Mass Ave is kind of a drain to the Pike in Back Bay and MIT/Kendall area -- the extra on-ramp at Newbury doesn't do much except attract those crazy...

That's wild - every time I've tried to go from Cambridge to Back Bay the #1 bus has been so bad. I guess it's bad because I'm trying to ride on a weekend for a shopping trip. I didn't realize that the schedule was not even every 10 minutes. I've heard from friends in Arlington that they don't...

Very impressionistically, these maps seem to show that the MBTA has 2 or 3 tiers of service periods, depending on how you look at it. There's the A weekday peak hour tier, an A- (or combined with A) weekday midday and Saturday tier, and the B weekday evening and Sunday tier. It seems like the...

For entries, not transfers. My impression is that most blue line riders transfer rather than surface at state or govy

I think the schedule upgrades took effect two Sundays ago. The 86 to/from Allston is going to be hell once they cut the route at Harvard.

First step is to get rid of zoning for only single family housing, second step is to neuter any historical controls to only suggest following design review advise, and third is to fund as many affordable housing projects in close proximity. The rest will sort it self out over a couple of...

It's wild to me to have a park-reservation and have stately estates as if we were still living in colonial England. Any place within 128 shouldn't really have many of these estate-like properties bordering some of the most numerous green and open spaces in the region - it should be so much more...

Over by 6:30 a.m.

A potential 25bps cut still sounds like very expensive new-build loans, still.

That makes much more sense! Nearly double floor area means nearly double the unit count!

Yogurt in chicken soup is actually kinda delicious tho.

I wonder how expensive the apartments have to be if they've gotten financing to begin construction.

I'm a bit confused - how does the floor area math work on this?!

It's wild that the Cambridge + Boston that I visited in 2011 looks like this now.

I'm dubious of the proposition that $1.1 billion dollars is worth spending for nice day trips to the tune of $20 million/annum in ongoing operations. Especially when $40 million could buy a number of new intercity coaches and another $100m could be a seeder to many years of all-day intercity...

What has kept you or the other 1/3rd of Boston and without cars from taking intercity buses that cover the same distance for about the same cost and time as the future commuter rail?

So --- does anyone have a pulse on where Medford (or maybe Arlington and Winchester?) are at with the Mystic Valley Extension? It still boggles my mind that we just didn't finish the job by getting the GLX to Route 16.

MBTA's forum on the Alewife development joint venture apparently was seemingly very popular. From the press release: Description of the MBTA's process for selecting a joint development partner seems like they'll seek a list of qualified bidders and then ask for proposals in fall. They don't...