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This is embarrassingly bad road design for an dense area near a major rapid transit station and a regional park system. Thank goodness MassDOT rarely follows up and implements the studies they publish.

Agreed, but what I bet happened is that the contractor finally finished the punchlist ADA items and the T probably wanted to just get it open asap given the political pressure.

Well, it's a street redesign, so I think they're just counting it as one whole corridor project. Here's some more background on it and here's the project page.

They're probably assuming that by the time this is implemented, the 22 would take a left on Tremont by RX station, which is what's included in the final bus network redesign map. That would mean the 66 and 22 would overlap there at RX and repeatedly again along Tremont in Mission Hill.

Boston and the T have released the concept plan for extending the Columbus Ave bus lanes north from Jackson up to Ruggles Station - center-running bus lanes, road diet, expanded green space, better ped crossings - concept here and fact sheet here.

Agreed, but one of the things that excites me about this announcement is that speed humps can be scaled up and deployed very quickly, even compared to other quick-build traffic calming interventions. The city's map for where they could do speed humps is extensive, too - would be great to see...

Totally understood, but seems like a good place to work on a collaboration with a private developer to create some market rate housing along with it, similar to Whittier Choice Phase 3 in Roxbury. Ink Block's a stone's throw away . . . just seems like a missed opportunity to increase the overall...

This is good but perhaps goes without saying . . . should be much taller to max out the density on this site.

There are a couple train station / rail projects included in the last federal RAISE grant award cycle, so a city could certainly apply and win (not saying the overhead and match wouldn't be major challenges but still - there's a potential path).

This is great but FWIW this is also available on the T's project page - direct link here.

This is one of the biggest projects MassDOT's planned and have been talking about this for practically a decade now. What's wrong with MassDOT? https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/is-there-a-finance-plan-for-the-i-90-allston-project/

Nothing much new to share in this story in the Globe, but some good context about how the city is thinking about the process: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/business/stitching-hole-chinatown-with-park-over-pike/

A more-common-than-you-think reason for why subway elevators are frequently out of order is folks peeing in them. It can compromise the machinery beneath, which is why the T is following a few other agencies to detect urine in their elevators.

Probably depends on whenever those new bus routes go into effect. After that, it's probably up to the T or whichever roadway owner owns the curbs (Somerville? Medford? MassDOT or the T if it's on / near a bridge, etc.)

If the Board has already voted then the report is just for posterity - whenever MassDOT does a planning study, they tend to produce a final report.

The Port Authority of NY & NJ is a prominent example of an authority between states to improve shared transportation goals, so I think a New England Passenger Rail Authority could be possible if you had the buy-in from the states involved (pretty likely - without NH that is) and sign-off from...

I wouldn't be surprised if this is one of those studies where the funding math changes a few more months into the Healey administration . . . similar to how Baker came around to East-West Rail after Neal dug his hooks in.

There's really a case to be made to develop an underground bus way in Sullivan Sq, similar to Harvard Sq, to allow for more efficient operations between the Alford St bridge, the bus garage, Sullivan Sq station, and different connecting service corridors (via Cambridge St / Washington St to...

I imagine we're gonna start hearing Wu and City Hall being very vocal about pushing for projects like these and things at the state level may move faster than we've grown accustomed to the last 8 years. Not say that that will result in projects getting down quickly, but there's a lot more...

I don't disagree, but the point I'm trying to make is that we're gonna have a very Boston-centered transportation power structure in place for the foreseeable future, and they are very likely gonna want to use the opportunities available now to make progress on long-talked about projects (while...