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Here’s the status of the Lowell Line’s new bridge over the CR yard leads (viewed looking back inbound from the outbound slow crawl into Sullivan station today)

https://media.amtrak.com/2023/08/more-amtrak-airo-trainsets-ordered-to-meet-surging-demand/ I'm in favor of this, even though I don't understand it. And I put it in "New England" (instead of Other People's Rail) because so many of the routes being enabled will end up being service on the NEC or...

Yes, that one, thanks! See what I mean about Lab or High School ?

I drove through Watertown Square into Newton for the first time in years and saw a big beautiful building on the Newton side nearing completion It has the right massing to be either a high school or a lab building.🙄 It is buff colored. What is it?

BOS-SPG-xxx should be understood as intercity. I also like the description of "super commuter" at least to describe who rides. It is "worky" but not quite commuter and not quite "business travel" It is "mid-value" not quite leisure trip but not fully billable It isn't 8 hours, but often either...

I want BOS-SPG to be so fast, frequent, and bus-hubbed that every place beyond MBTA territory is better served as a branch or connection off that trunk route.

does anyone know what the fate of the former Hillside store is at the corner of Boston Avenue and Winthrop Street? That is a corner where Tufts has long sought to promote retail that is useful to the Tufts community such as pizza, coffee, copying, pastries, and laundry Hillside was an old...

Docklands are about 3x as tall as Seaport. Triple density supports much better transit

How is “Aucocisco” pronounced by locals. Clearly designed as a way to identify out-of-towners.

Probably cheapest to just jack up the station building to the new platform level.

Note to self: When the brick in a facadectomy is thick enough, and on a foundation of granite, it doesn't need steel bracing.

It would make sense as part of a project to extend/add HOV toll lanes toward the cape (and somewhere here we’ve seen/discussed a proposal for that and a new bridge to the Cape)

PITCH: Reduce trip times & increase accessibility with new station entrances at: (starter list off the top of my head) 1) OL: Sullivan Square, West Side 2) Lowell: Anderson Woburn, West Side 3) GLX: Union Square, Boynton Yards End 4) OL: Ruggles, South Side (Ruggles St) ... What do you want...

Here's how I think about it based on 2008 Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act (PRIIA) and subsequent tweaks. MOSTLY ABOUT TRACKAGE RIGHTS - Amtrak is still the de jure repository of all rights to operate passenger rail on the Freight Railroads on the routes it received as the price...

Ask most on this forum to define "Street Activation" and I think most of us go right for "street level retail" with everything else being clearly inferior. Sometimes we have a broad definition of "retail" that obviously includes not just merchandise and services (barbershop, nail salon) but...

Christian MilNeil at StreetsBlogMass reports that the segment under Revere Beach Pkwy (Rt 16) in Everett (connecting Mystic/Costco/Casino paths to Northern Strand)is ready to open Article with good pictures: Another Gap’s Gone On the Northern Strand Trail In Everett

Platform Doors have at least 3 justifications: 1) personal jump/push safety 2) climate control 3) keeping garbage off the tracks. This is the big $ saver since you eliminate the track fires and (reduce) need for a vacuum train

Apropos of both nuking the Mattapan loop and of prepping the system for the Type 10s, (This is probably one for @The EGE) how are we doing on eliminating the tightest Green Line curves as listed in the Underground Station Layouts thread:

@Beaconhillwalker, apparently you succeeded! Tell us how the stop sign came to be at Mt Vernon & Walnut!

Oh, man the whole of Mass should be in favor of that. Frankly, it makes me want the 89mph version. https://www.mass.gov/doc/chapter-4-alternatives-development-and-analysis-0/download