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https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/08/12/more-bluebikes-coming-soon-city-of-boston-plans-100-new-bluebikes-stations-across-the-city a bunch of new stations coming, starting this fall. Looks like major focus areas were the downtown-crossing pedestrianized area, north station, and north end. This...

Boylston street is filled with grand architecture, amazing destinations, amazing history, and that's why we need to have 3 highway sized lanes of cars going down the middle of it!!

I can understand that sentiment but major infrastructure like this is built for the next few decades, not for the next few years. This intersection is less than a mile from the Natick Center stop and if they ever have plans of converting route 9 from a highway into a mixed transit/bike/car...

christ, the sidewalks/shared-use paths in this monstrosity honestly look like satire. No one who is going anywhere on foot is going to follow these curvy paths and cloverleaf looparounds + waiting at 3 different ped signals just to take a left turn.

I'm sure the NEC is super-congested beyond what I can see on the Metro North schedule, but after riding the 4pm Acela from Penn northbound a few times for work, it seems like - 1 or sometimes 2 tracks are closed for extended lengths, forcing the Acela to run on the local track interlaced with...

We need to stop throwing money at studying these pipe dreams. Just get the existing ROW tracks and bridges up to full possible speed based on the current geometry, unclutter the South Station/Penn Station approaches, get the MBTA to run EMU's on the Providence Line, maybe straighten a curve here...

For me the biggest issue with JetBlue is on time performance. Even though not many are writing news articles about it, the data is all publicly available for anyone who cares to look. Jetblue trails the top 3 major carriers by 10-30% fewer flights arriving on time, even after correcting for...

I ventured over to the bowker/fenway area last weekend, and it's appalling how much of a car sewer that whole area still is. With fenway/time-out market nearby it could be one of the most vibrant, pedestrianized hubs but instead many streets are choked with non-moving cars trying to weave around...

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/02/08/fix-the-slowest-speed-zones/ I wanted to circle back to this as well. He's claiming the SS and NS throat switches can be upgraded with proper signaling (instead of relying on line-of-sight) so that they can run at a full 30mph? That would cut like 3...

On reddit people mentioned the RL had a lot of 25mph slow zones pop up on the braintree branch as well. Hopefully just temporary caused by the heatwave in precaution..

I think a good compromise to get a useful walkshed around the "union station" would be to build "north station under" near the haymarket/GC area. That would be close enough to the blue line for transfers and certain northside lines can continue to terminate at the surface stub-end station.

A very scary scenario but not all that surprising. Transit is a big scale-based business. When you force people to shift modes away from transit through poor service, the cost per rider will increase even if you have fewer trains running. It is appalling how the state doesn't take transit/CR as...

This is awesome for Micromobility/bike Park-and-ride connections to Alewife. I could see a lot of current users who ride the 70-73 buses to harvard switching to bike to alewife then take the Red Line from there.

Update on this lot- seems like they paved over the middle after removing the trees. Anyone know what the plan is here?

Instead of consolidation/rebuilding, let's just close some of the decrepit ones and put the money towards CR platforms..

Fairmount improvements are a great step, but what's it freaking take to get clock-facing hourly service all day on the weekends on every line? Just run a god-damn 2 or 4-car single-level train once per hour and set a flat $5 or $10 weekend fare. Looking at I-93/95/90 traffic every weekend makes...

I mean, to be fair, no cars stop at stop signs either..not a single one.

I would say those that are willing to pay the (fair) price for the service should still be allowed to do so, but the charges need to be higher so that a) the gig workers can get paid a living wage net of the maintenance costs of their car, b) taxes are incurred so that the negative externalities...

I don't get why bike delivery couriers are not more common? The infrastructure is getting better, most trips are short enough where bikes are faster, you get some exercise, and you don't have to worry about illegally parking where you might actually be able to get more orders done per hour. And...

I don't understand the logic to "wait until the students are gone" to close the northside areas. If there is heavy student ridership from downtown to harvard, wouldn't it make sense to prioritize and get that work done first? 10mph service is barely better than bus shuttle service.