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This is only a guess too, but my light understanding does recall FRA have stronger perceived and actual regulatory power so it's possible better practices and effort has been done for commuter rail than the subway. This doesn't mean there's not any regulation, as the MBTA has been experiencing...

Meanwhile in the most pressing news. The Globe continues to cover the crisis we're in. The closest we have for a reaction from the governor direct related to this is her spokesperson saying that "information from the investigation into what caused the systemwide slow down will be shared with the...

There's an odd spot in Porter Station that have I feel would be a cute spot for a ramen shop. Porter sq is kinda a loci for Japanese food which would make it extra fitting. I tried to look up the spot and apparently it used to host some shop called "Cold & Hot" per this Boston.com article plus...

I pretty sure nobody hates REI, more of combination of the business and the building together. If it was a café, bar, or neighborhood-oriented retail - it would help cancel out the underuse of land. If the building was bigger but still only host REI, then at least it's making the most of the...

A true point, but it doesn't change how much it sucked. It's one thing to have to deal with some slow zones or buses on part of the trip, my friends and I have all became pretty adept at adjusting to that. But as one of my friends said "Figuring out the T today harder than any puzzle boda Borg...

I don't know what to say if we are actually witnessing a death of the an entire system, but I think we can say without contest that it keeps going in that direction. You kinda have to start to wondering how much more dysfunction can it go before it's just not functional anymore. One would assume...

So pages covered this, but it is notable that today the MBTA has started tearing down the Milton Station staircase. Gov Healey apparently had a moment to intervene but she gave the green light. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/03/06/milton-mbta-demolishing-staircase/ It seems...

Perhaps that's true nationally, but in the local context of Nubian, doesn't the community groups representing the area constantly grip of getting gipped of what they were promised? So barring all the visible chagrin from Nubian groups are mistaken, just saying the locals will start to oppose LRT...

Yeah... I think that over time people are going to totally ignore validation. It's to shrink to a very honest subpopulation but rest essentially treat "inbound is free". Thinking about it, I hope nobody notices it as I can just imagine certain actors will try to use the data to say transit has...

Siemens is German

That's actually the question. Can the project be saved? Maybe that question cannot be answered by any of us, but going by our general knowledge and the way everything been presented by the latest reports, it looks like a more realistic outcome than any of us like to consider. It's been floating...

So here's a question - can failures of process without design flaws reach that point for the "lemon" label? Because it does look like it's very possible that design-wise, the CRRC trains are fine. But the newest reports is starting to sound like the core issue could be CRRC has checked out. Not...

Is the data via TransitHistory or is there other sources? The last wave of media coverage in regards to CRRC deliveries seem to be all roughly around end of September. Those articles reported it was suppose be done 1 year ago, all 152 carbodies has been made, and new project target is Summer...

So that's Zone 1A map? Where did the map come from? Regardless, I have today Brookline (and a lesser extent Newton) really throws a wrench in what should be a circle from the center aside from natural barriers.

Brah, think about what? Frankly, you just made a bunch of sentences that individually are not wrong, but it just does not connect in any coherent manner to make any insightful or meaningful point. ----- Also to respond when you replied with that link. It's the same article as the one linked...

Given the basis of common knowledge pieces of information of labor shortages, supply shipment bottlenecks, and CRRC being a Chinese company means an very reasonable guess most parts are being shipped in from China - one can make some reasonable but ultimately speculative theories. Being a poster...

How long does the Environmental doc and 30% design stays valid before you have to do it again to start? Even we only talk about projects in terms of the MBTA doing 1-2 expansions at a time. But then that means GLX2 won't start until after 2030 because somehow Red-Blue will take +8 years (reasons...

I vaguely recall they said Route 16 was cut to make sure there's enough money to complete the other portions of GLX but if they don't need it then they would continue GLX to Route 16 (along with returning money Cambridge and Somerville offered - which I do know that happened). But I can't find a...

Somerville pledged to give GLX $50 million dollars when the project was looking at death's door pre-value engineering (which media and state never made any noise about). Which 2nd start of the project that it was able to stay within budget and thus allowing GLX to return a combined $28 million...

Yeah, this is not useful discussion. This is needless snark. This is ultimately an internet forum where we generally have no influence, but concepts and ideas still matter - technical, design, engineering, policy, and even philosophical. Screaming Texas and screaming people just go ride a bike...