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As we approach Union Sq opening and that other branch is approaching. I need a refresher on some trailing questions. What's the status on Route 16? I remember it will be in a "future phase" after the current ones are done. But now that are we getting really close to the finish line, there...

Meanwhile other transit agencies somehow have the type of people that are doing things like bringing back ETBs.... I have to wonder if the same type of people is going to somehow remain the same while every other transit agencies are getting such type of people. And if it political...

I have to say if the ultimate goal is "Diesel Forever" by making ETB super painful to ever revive and cause BEB to fail so hard that there's no local interest to ever try again. It's really dumb as it really depend on the vast majority of other major transit system to mostly stay on diesel...

It's also worth noting that even if politics actually change. We're gonna get NIMBYs arguing about "how wires are so ugly" and "it going to block the sky". While technically that's not falsehoods, the frustrating thing is status quo is a lot of the real drive. It's been our ally and part of why...

Welp, we have the result. For all the political power Cambridge/Belmont/Watertown has (or at least the first two reputationally), the state used the road reconstruction projects to silence them. Honestly, if I was the political class of the two cities, I would have just kept the road in the...

While I know the photo is ceremonial, but it looks so dumb to me. Ribbon cutting is also ceremonial but it theoretically can act as a declaration when a project is "done done" But the ground breaking just looks like a mess for others to clean up. Considering the ceremony likely started from a...

Then I hope they do something real soon then. Else they have either collectively changed their mind (it's not like they got voted out the past year) or their favor was just empty words. The proof is if we'll see any public statement, legal challenges, or change of policy in the next few weeks...

So the next question is there any pushback left? Anything we can do about it? I know TransitMatters has been advocating to not do this. And I remember reading reasoning that the reason why the MBTA kept using trolleybuses is 1. The lower busway and 2. Belmont and Cambridge would not accept and...

I don't know how to put it into words that encapsulate this right. I guess the closest way to say it is that it is not surprising, but it kinda is. I guess the reason of this odd felling is past dumb decisions on this level feels like a different era or at least a different generation. Like...

I hope you all don't mind, but can anyone give any context? Goddamn, there's a 7 year gap between the last wave of posts and the latest ones now. And even the 2014 batch was a small wave - most of the chatter from 2011 and 2012. - Is the newest development a new start or a long "brew" from the...

The video literally came out 34 minutes ago. For a passionate transit type dude, I have to say I share nothing in common with him. After growing up with the T for years, I hold no love for the 1200s. I want to see an MBTA that runs clean, fast, and timely. I'm so tired of seeing rust on the...

https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/road-diet-proposed-for-soldiers-field-road/ DCR is proposing taking out a lane in Soldier Field Rd and replacing it with a bike lane.

You just paradoxically said you're not equating a speech act with murder yet equate the expression of their opinion as an equation to murder.

I think skateboarding isn't a big deal. A speed bump has it's own hazard and aesthetically unpleasing too. Though I will state for the record that saying "your generation" push the discussion away from the merits of being worried about skateboarders into calling people of the board complicity...

Sadly, 2021 shows not just getting the positive, not just neutral, but just today Baker is defending himself by repeatedly saying to the press conference the MBTA "is safe" multiple times like broken record. Even if some of the incidences is actually bad luck, we can sadly say 2021 is not the...

So the recent wave of news is sadly tells me that even if we can point out improvements are coming, 2021 is not the year our collective perceptions will seriously shift. Even if the recent events was just bad luck, that the new red line trains will start coming in force soon that will prevent...

I'm repeating everyone, but I have to still chime in that even if regular people don't know and don't really care about trainsets, people do still feel and thus can sense when something is more enjoyable or not. Seeing and riding new and shiny trains does have a value in the rider. Seeing...

So it's August now. I have to ask, the newest news article I can find was June 7, the incident itself was back in March. Is there any rumors? Idea on how the investigation works that gives us any guestimate how much longer? Is this starting to reach a point we should start getting worried?

To my knowledge, there's "SkyscraperCity" and kinda Railroad.net (talks about trains, but it veers a lot in urbanism discussions - Though the Boston moderator works hard to keep the topic to trains only). Funny thing about SkyscraperCity is (IRRC) Archboston is the Boston forum of...

FYI, in the Globe Comments section, there's a guy exasperated at the "9 years" to get the trains. The respondents only explain to the that it's another example of government red tape - citing endless government "studies". I know newspapers comment sections of dumpster fires, but I do believe...