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That’s interesting, is the Green Line the only line that doesn’t have continuous welded rail?

It’s a shame they punted on the SL6 and alternatives beyond Sullivan. This seems like the bare minimum of the alternatives they were considering.

Do these support in motion charging? The video shows what appears to be a normal pantograph but only mentions stationary charging.

Dispatcher shortage? Green Line tends to wait at signals a lot.

True, but I image that if the buildings or at least the podiums are build at the same time the highway is built there would be considerable cost savings compared to building over an active highway. Once the highway is active there is no advantage to these air rights parcels over the ones further...

Is there a reasonable estimate for the cost savings if DCR road-dieted Soldiers Field Road to 2 or 0 lanes? Seems that would save a lot of cost in the throat area and remove cars from Storrow. Another idea would be to lift all zoning limits on developments that cap the highway here and use the...

Appears to be the development directly across from Bow Market on Somerville Ave.

I’ve noticed in the portal when heading Science Park > North Station there is a stop sign (not signal) that all trains stop at. Is this related to track condition that could ever be resolved, or just to allow operators eyes to adjust to the dark tunnel?

I’m pretty sure I heard in a recent city council meeting that Somerville is now requiring new lab projects to have tenants secured before permits are issued. Hoping that means some of these projects convert to residential before construction begins.

Yes Lynn would need full length trains to handle CR transfers. South Station > Airport terminals > Chelsea > OL should be its own line anyway, I’m just making the case that an LRV BL conversion and branching is not a good investment. I don’t see REM as a gadgetbahn, it uses standard rolling...

This is mostly in response to ideas for Blue Line LRV conversion, which would be very expensive and result in less capacity. The perceived benefit of converting to light rail would be lower expansion costs for more branching, but as GLX shows light rail extensions can also be extremely...

Automated light metro like the Montréal REM is a much better solution for the Blue Line than any sort of light rail conversion.

Unfortunately no. The recap video they just posted says they removed 12 restrictions, two more than planned; reducing travel times by 4 minutes. Not sure if that’s round trip or one way.

Where did you hear this? The last I heard it was due to them needing custom ties for the viaduct. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/01/18/temporary-green-line-slow-zone-approaches-1-year-anniversary

95 is effectively a ring road, and all highways within it could be eliminated if NSRL is built with park&rides where it intersects Commuter Rail lines.

Not to distract from the BLX discussion, but is it realistic to request this station be built with platform screen doors? What signaling enhancements does the blue line need to make this happen? Can these enhancements be made on the new track before they are rolled out to the entire line?

Does anyone know at what time they are doing this work? Do they only do demo work when the GL is shut down overnight? Or are they able to make progress during the day?

Ah that’s too bad, I thought I could see catenary poles on top of the bus if I squinted just right.

Interesting that the vehicle they chose to highlight for bus electrification is a hybrid trolleybus. Maybe (hopefully) that means a shift in bus electrification strategy.

Alternatively, just bustitute to East Somerville station, they’re so close you’d probably only need one bus.