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hopefully this involves some charles circle road reconfiguration or other road diet. The entire area is pretty hostile outside of a car needing to cross multiple lanes of traffic in all directions on a bike or on foot.

We're quickly approaching the point of where it would be better to run no service, have shuttle buses on the entire line in bus lanes, so they can get 24/7 access to repairing tracks. They could do the entire southside for a month and then the entire north side for a month. Especially with just...

Anyone know what the longfellow bridge is? I take a blue bike up that bridge both ways each day and it's definitely a bit of a slog in my dress shirt..

The value of the real estate near the transit stop is directly related to how good the transit service is. Provide 5-min headways and short transfer times, people will pay up to ride the train. Someone on reddit pointed out that instead of subsidizing the lots they should just be replaced with TOD.

I legit cannot fathom how full-high's haven't been put in at Back Bay yet for the Worcester Line tracks., given how much ridership it gets. At least put in some temporary metal raised platforms or something.

Haha, just as long as the wheels still use rubber tires. So basically they want a autonomous electric trolleybus that runs on a dedicated ROW at rapid transit frequencies. Sounds like the silver line and we all know how blazing fast that thing is.

This is unreal - there is a full 0.8mi restriction WB from Lechmere to Union Square. Why even run service at that point? Everyone would be better served just walking to Lechmere and jumping on the train there. That way they can work on fixing the brand new track that was installed.. 2 months ago?

It's wild how the I-95 bridge collapse, which serves 150k cars day, was fixed in 12 days, while the Red Line which carries ~240k per day pre-pandemic is allowed to languish for months at a unusable frequency and travel speed.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/09/somervilles-community-path-extension-opens-saturday Old news from last weekend, but the Sommerville community path just opened (connecting lechmere to Davis & Alewife). This provides a good bike connection from almost all of sommerville to downtown...

On such a major thoroughfare street parking should be eliminated along the entire length (with exception of some loading zones). I'm honestly not even sure if bus lanes would do much good here (cars will constantly be spilling into it due to all the intersections/traffic lights. It might be more...

That is true but relieving traffic congestion is non linear such that even if we get 10-25% to take the train, the traffic situation will ease up. And of course if the CR were a connected regional rail network with NSRL that gives a lot more suburb-to-suburb 2-seat rides with travel times that...

right.. to be fair, they did build the stadium right next to a Rail ROW.. imagine a 25-min electric train to back bay running every half hour.. The real misfire was building Xfinity Center just far away from the commuter rail that everyone has to drive drunk just to make it home.

This is bonkers. Having direct CR service to SS would certainly raise property values.

This is a really bad look - sure there is a train operator/dispatcher shortage but to provide essentially no service on the line through the lowest-income area is inexcusable. I seriously cannot blame anyone for driving/taking lyft and contributing to the congestion with the current state of...

seems like the rotary is generally wide enough - seems like there should be space to fit a dutch-style protected bike intersection around that rotary. I guess this is Winthrop, not Cambridge we're talking about here..

Sorry if this was discussed earlier - but any updates/news on opening of the community path? Are segments of it already bikeable (even if not technically open)?

I think the point is that when faced with this trip (airport to JP), only a masochist, transit die-hard, or broke student would use transit. Anyone with a bit of money in their pocket would save literally a hour by taking a uber.

They are also asking for 4tph on the Worcester Line and 12!!! tph on fairmount and providence/NEC line. Is 12tph even possible with 100mph EMU's, interlaced with the acela's and northeast regionals?

My main issue is that the SL1 is actually even worse than direct bus service. Like Bananarama mentioned, for anyone connecting from downtown or Red Line to the airport, the SL1: - runs on a bus-like headway (10-min at peak, but with bunching and sometimes 20-min gaps between buses) - has a...

This^^. Somehow for every mode of transport other than driving, safety is the top priority and there is a near-no-tolerance policy (how long were the new OL trains yanked off for?) while for driving, it's just an unavoidable cost of keeping the economy moving. Anywho - can they install some...