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This is kinda a tangent, but why did they do that? Ashmont used to be cross platform. The old station did that on purpose. I remember the chatter here back the talking about it, but we I don't recall anyone going into any design discussion back then. 2009 was not that long ago. A lot of here...

In an alternate timeline, our football stadium would have occupied the Waterfront/Seaport or something like that. I'm glad it's not. (Thinking about that, would that timeline would have forced MA to build the Silver Line as proper light rail? That's a thought) What should happen is Gillette...

The focus of the video is electric cars and it doesn't mention Boston at all (and let's not derail into his bigger point), but through the whole video it weaves in the topic Battery Electric Busses and Trolleybusses. I can't help but remember the 71 and 73 line. Barring a large miscalculation...

On r/boston, one of the upvoted comments claims that Kraft wants to but the NIMBYs of Foxboro and Walpole push back anytime it was proposed. I do not know which is correct, I'm just pointing this contraction and curious if anyone knows an answer. A cursory Google search find various article...

My frustration at the councilor's Tweet and subsequent tweets she shows a stalk difference been us here and her. I'm not sure how to word it, but the tweets from Mike Connolly subcommunicates that he's asking the same questions and has the same desires that we would express and advocate if we...

Note to self. I'm not voting for her next election

https://www.wcvb.com/article/video-floor-buckling-aboard-crowded-mbta-green-line-trolley-boston-marathon/43742354 WCVB reports the video showing the incident and reports the MBTA's reasoning - some kind of misalignment in the metal floor developed. They checked all the other type 9s and they...

(I would link to FB's post but I'm not gonna mess with their embed link). Sligo's is closing in June

It's hard to fathom the mindset if this is what's going on. Like if I was assigned to inspect the tiles, I wouldn't be able to call it complete without checking them for sake of not wanting anyone to get hurt. It's not like everything looks shiny where it could hide something that's actually...

A particularly damming development as it's the same station as the ceiling tiles that was only a few months ago. With the previous close call, how was this not detected?

The repeal feels also strangely insulting(?), irritating(?) when one remember the Minuteman. Like it or not, that itself is now a poison pill. Free to say they don’t oppose it now, but just as strong new barriers to block it if a new window ever appears

I don't have anything to comment on what the MBTA and its employees should do about its people, culture, or structure. But the one example is worth thinking about. What's going on in this one aspect where such visible maps aren't being updated? I can guess a few things. Like GLX Construction...

One of the big talking points people keep saying is how everyone involved needs to ride the T. This situation not just riding the T but being even near the T at all. One can say these are different people advocating different things, but one thing I'll definitely say on this - if the MBTA was...

If he's doing hyperbole for rhetoric, then he can clarify that himself. My reading, and the responses he has made, that he just outright connects a logic that since the rich uses airlines, then it must mean the FAA gives a lower bar to safety. And if so, despite the recent debacles, I have to be...

Different transit modes does matter. If you're saying the MBTA should have the same safety standards as cars, then you're accepting a x20 casualty rate at least. But failures in mass transit mean mass casualty events, not individual tragedies. Accepting that a mass casualty event will occur and...

Are you just ignoring statistical data for your gut beliefs? Saying "half dozen near Tenerife-style disasters" doesn't change aircraft has the lowest accident and fatality rate of any of the major modes. A glitch in the tracking system caused the US to shut all plane travel for the entire...

All of this is extremely frustrating, but what are you trying to advocate in your quips? Do you seriously view the solution to this situation is let just lower the safety standards? Do you also advocate the FRA to lower Amtrak standards? Or the FAA lower their safety standards to planes? This...

It is notable that in a different universe, this matter would be moot because there should never be a +20 minute wait for the next train during operational hours - ever. But yeah, we're not in that universe and given things like estimated time just to restore the slow-zoned Blue Line that...

Magoun Sq. Outbound is +20 mins. I watch an elderly lady bulk to once she saw it. Fortunately I’m going in but going home might be a trip. I have heard the mbta not able to give accurate gauges for inbound trains from terminal and near terminal stations, but.. yeah

I could be misremembering it. I'm the type that tries really hard to make sure my memory is corroborated with some kind of evidence but right now my attempt to verify seems to go against this memory... but that preface said... I think I used it organically. Back in the mid-2000s, I was still a...