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I have to point this one out. If I'm reading this correctly, the North Station to Lechmere is likely that slow zone on the viaduct. One spot I know a lot of us on this board have noticed a lot. If that's the one, it would be kinda fitting if it becomes one of the last slow zones they will fix...

I have to personally speculate that when (or I guess if) all the slow zone gets repaired, it's probably a lot easier to keep up if one immediately address the issue when initially detected (with wiling and active effort to detect them). The slow zones we see now (and hopefully we actually...

If the slow zones doesn't come back. I think the big difference between the Red Line shut down versus the Orange Line is planning. The Orange Line did a month long shutdown, but it seems it was only decided roughly a month ahead. The Northern portion was planned for months before it was...

Charlie in thread specifically about Red-Blue states it would happen if/when it gets support from the Feds. Thus the most likely scenario is a through a Federal transportation grant. Which means where the political wind blow in the next year or so will be critical. Right now the winds are still...

Back at the roughly the start of the Barker administration, it was discovered GLX was projecting to go overbudget by 20%. Here in the forums, I remember us noticing how each part of the project are all costing 20% more than it should - imply contractor overcharge. > Baker order a freeze on GLX...

New MBTA podcast is out. Some of the lines I do find a bit less anodyne than before.

If any problems are getting addressed, it's because the issues affect their main site and just happen to be on the same boat to receive it. Checking their website, it seems they have merge the other cities into their website. Hopefully we're still sharing the same backend and thus still...

@king_vibe - At the risk that responding to you will get this thread locked, just shitting on stuff and then double down with an even lower effort post does not contribute to the conversation. And to be clear, hopefully including the mods, I'm genuinely trying to explain with good faith in my...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/we-got-a-copy-of-the-samizdat-mbta-podcast-listen-here On r/boston, there was a bit of a commotion after a podcast from the MBTA getting taken down like almost immediately upon release. Streetsblog manage to find someone who manage to download a copy...

Doesn't that implies we have data that demonstratively shows the drivers are ignoring orders? If so, it's hard for me to feel angry since nobody is hurt and it even as laymen some of us are speculating they are unreasonably err-ing to caution. At the same time, it is concerning as it also...

In that 8 years, I would say they also did do a "good" job of doing a whole dog and pony show while continuing or possible even accelerating the hole digging. I mean I fell for it - hard. I'm the guy that wrote up the thread "MBTA 2021 - The year the MBTA stop sucking?" and omg I can't believe I...

Accordingly to the website. The three longest slow zones are 1. Westbound (Inbound) between Tufts and Ball Sq for 1,200 ft (.23 miles) 2. Westbound (Inbound) between Gilman and East Somerville for 800 ft (.15 miles) 3. Eastbound (Outbound) between Ball Sq and Tufts for 800 ft (.15 miles) So...

This is probably pointless to get involved. Especially if King_vibe is trolling then this means that anything I say is just providing the entertainment he's looking for. But I'm going to still try despite the risk. Quotes like the one I just quoted of F-line (albeit from the GLX thread) is why...

It also rubs the wrong way the opening lines and headline and etc all sounds like it is about to start arguing for the stick approach and "force" people to bike. Opponents already have preconceived ideas, we don't need the advocates make arguments that sounds like what they keep thinking.

What does that even mean? What does it mean for everyone in the forum start agreeing with you that "the MBTA is simply not in the business of operating a transit system"? Start talking like some certain Globe/Herald/Commonwealth commentators that demands to stop all future transit projects and...

These are the many moments that I wonder what they see that forces them to do things like reinstate it. I know more than once that some have here voiced that "maybe the real issue is the MBTA is being too cautious", but what truly determine how true that answer is the reasoning behind examples...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/07/metro/mbta-track-slow-zones-report/ Globe reports of the result of the investigation from Carlson Transport Consulting hired by the MBTA is out. The GM is doing a conference of the results. My current takeways (based on the news article, I don't have a...

Wow, it's from Jadeane Sica. The same woman who been on the news for several other events. I guess certain policies and ways of thinking really do tend to go hand-in-hand. Note: I'll note that I do think Rt.60 was a bad job. But my vision on how to fix it is emulating streets like Comm Ave or...

The last news article I can recall that cover it is from that Commonwealth article covering slowzones as a whole but also covers the viaduct. I think we're at the point we're going to need another news reporter investigate this all over again. But with so many concurrent issues, it's hard to...

It's probably because Braintree is a weekend closure" but Ashmont is multi-week closure that has a similar sound to "ripe the band-aid". Both again, I hope we actually see a payoff - a full and undeniable one too. The OL shutdown might have given us a payoff (maybe OL would would be RL bad or...