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This is ultimately an engineering problem. Just looking at bike trails and community paths all over the state shows we can't just expect people to walk on the right and etc. Even if people do do that, just he discomfort some will feel of a bike riding by at decent clips will feel discouraged...

Nobody's going to be persuaded, but I want to note that I find Brattle Loop's point reasonable and the rebuttal that gridlocking intersections is a good thing is just reflexive. There are tradeoffs and people trying to drive are still people and if thousands of people's commute are doubled, that...

I don't know if they so silo-ed but I think it's reasonable to speculate there different gears going on. Frank retired from the MBTA years ago now, so it's not like people would remember just by seeing him in the office. Someone has to deliberately remember and contact him to bring him in. But...

Checking the page you linked and scrolling back, I don't see a press release to the announcing the date of the opening of Union Square, just the announcement on the day of it. I don't know really what's normal practice of press releases though.

It's probably obvious to say this, but it seems the MBTA pulled all resources to fix all the slow zones on the Orange Line, but at the cost of a skeleton crew at best to maintain the rails at the Red Line. Assuming the Orange Line has truly reach 0 slow zones, then I wonder if keeping it down...

The original name of this thread was something like "Green Line to Medford/Somerville will open in 2011" or something like that. It's unfortunate this project lost so much time. It would have been nice if this thread reached its conclusion by its original name. It took so long we have to...

.... Bakgwailo is saying the delays are slowly going down. The train is getting faster. I will leave a caveat that I might be miscomprehending you where your emoji emote outrage is about that the Orange Line should have recover to this point months ago post-shutdown. But I'm pretty sure...

So I decided to go for a bike ride along GLX. From Tufts to East Somerville and back. I took roughly 43 photos. That might be too much to share by directly posting on forum (if at all). So I'm sharing it via Google Drive and posting directly a few chosen photos with written commentary on the...

NGL, it feels like conspiratorial to wonder about this, but it seems so off that it start to attracts thoughts "is this salt-the-earth type of action?" - actively and deliberately trying to break the T as much as possible before the next admin comes in. Trying to effect long-term kneecapping by...

Anyone knows how to find more solid data? Did trains used to run at 55 mph at some spots or was it just design for it? And while I do personally recall 40 mph at the portal between Community College and North Station, the more official the document, the stronger we can clearly argue about it (as...

Oh boy, imagine every last hole filled and properly landscape, construction fence packed up, every tool is gone, even the plastic wrapping peeled off. No sign of construction left, 100% complete no matter what angle you look at it - not even adjacent construction and final detailing like at...

Well if you want a downer, I haven't seen test trains in a while. That is a concerning sign. I don't know at all on this aspect, I'm just remembering a line somewhere saying about the Union Sq branch testing works - That they need to test and it's a minimum of 1 month assuming no issues were...

I’m not sure Poftak saying that is a sign that the MBTA lacks a shared internal definition… or Poftak just trying to gaslight and deflect by trying to redefine what is a slow zone.

I hope they don't forget the pedestrian walkway bridge that used to exist under the old Washington St Bridge. I recall that is still in the plans but I think after ------ They didn't get past the inspectors. These are the type of things is one of those things that might not get noticed until...

I have to personally speculate that part of the reason why Massport that seem to display some competence is because Massport has a self-sustaining amount of income. To be clear, I don't think the lesson is just fund the other agencies and departments. Funding matters, but competence is...

I do think it would be more than a little grumble, I'm sure that timeline we would be plenty mad and beyond just the initial announcement. But overall, I do think we would be less mad than we are now. Though if we look from a different angle, neither scenario has made a difference in a way that...

To add more news. I heard an explanation on WBZ Radio that based on the reporting of Federal Safety Hearing that Senator Warren and Markey hosted. Here's the equivalent online article -...

There's a MBTA job fair coming up next week. They also been blasting it as commercials on the radio. A thought recently crossed my mind. A lot of us here can be generally described as passionate about transit (and others here are passionate about city planning or architecture or all the...

If we're listing the headwinds facing the manufacturing, we should not forgot CRRC is the merger of CNR and CSR. CNR was the company the MBTA selected with ratings of not just "Acceptable" but "Good" for some Categories - most notably Manufacturing. CSR was rated as "Unacceptable" in not just...

A complete unmitigated disaster is this speed is a new normal. That's arguably semantics, but if these does go away I would feel less angry than if this becomes the thing long-term. But we don't know, do we? We have our personal observations and TransitMatter data, but the MBTA is not telling...