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If we analyze something like this Youtube video of a tourist recording the Silver Line from South Station to Chelsea, the result is very mixed. South Station -> Courthouse -> World Trade Center I would say this is Rapid Transit standard. It is full-on underground tunneling World Trade...

I think he's referring to the safety report that is noted in articles like this - https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/12/09/mbta-safety-report/ Though a big difference is the article states the request is less meetings or reduce the burden in making the reports. I guess removing...

If a BRT bridge actually happens, it would be pretty crazy to mind my mind. I mean it essentially recreates the ROW the old orange lines uses. To someone from the 1970s, it could be mistaken as a continuity but we seem to barely remember it existed (especially compared to how much we do remember...

To semi-answer this to myself (I don't know where else to post this - previous discussion about the Orange Line Everett Station are scattered with the most notable was in the Encore Thread). But also to bring out the discussion on "why is this decades for planning and implementing" (unless you...

The opposite is Gillette Stadium. At least it's possible an Everett stadium lack of urbanity and transit can be solved by building the infrastructure and knit connections to Charlestown and commercial-residential Everett. No amount of effort or money can make Gillette become part of any urban...

Everett north of Rt. 16 isn't a dump. It's a working class city but if you go around the business or residential area that is largely north of Rt. 16, you will struggle to find dilapidated homes or vacant storefronts. It's not full of glamourous shops, but thriving small businesses, a few gems...

Maybe the articles are just copying each other, but a lot of the news articles are really emphasizing the " Without floor debate or public input, lawmakers added language to a wide-ranging, multibillion-dollar economic development" To me, that gives an automatic red flag that "that is bad"...

I remember news articles where media look at how much lobbying money congressional members took to sell us out on things like Net Neutrality or Data Privacy and it was apparently around the cost of a new middle class sedan. Of course, this probably simplifies things too much but if there's any...

You know a depressing thought? Transit Matters been screaming about it (or at least we have the dashboard and thus putting it on blast) and this show it did nothing. It took the Fed explicitly giving orders to make the MBTA fix it. This is not to say to give up on advocacy or to attack...

And that's why it was so frustrating that it was tore down. It was owned by the city. Generally everyone involved expressed they wanted to see the building renovated, maybe when set it up to be used by GLX in someway. But despite "everyone" is in agreement, that the city owns the building so...

The building was found structurally unsound. I think somewhere in this thread's many pages that as mentioned or maybe it was in the Somerville Development Thread or both. But Googling again, I am still able to find this article that mentions it and this one on preservation (but I have to say...

The thing I can't reconcile is how since the winter of 2015 that there been so much noise including the Building a Better T program with its metrics, the long track work shut downs, the signal upgrades, and old weekend shutdowns - all in the name of "Transforming the T", yet somehow we still...

Theoretically, yes. But realistically that's not on the table. Unless some site is identified and an offer is actually on the table, a self-storage site that remains transit accessible but not on so prime of land as being next to the station is not on the table. The reality is either the Uhaul...

I'm have to voice that I see the logic of fattony's devil advocacy. It's a paradox - low-land value, but useful venues should be transit accessible, but being transit accessible makes it too valuable to such type of venues. Anything near any station is a case for a dense, urban transit oriented...

I can be proven wrong by going back to the thread's old pages, but I swear we already had the same conversation with the same active members involved reminding each other how the bidding process worked before the last time or maybe the time before the last time all the trains got pulled.

Such a nice day in April

I took the train back on Thursday. I actually took the train for to commute to my company office for the first time since last fall. I also noticed it was slow and the stop signs bothers me. I told myself during the ride that it was teething stuff -and the stop sign is because it's the...

This counterpoint is my largest concern to ripping band-aids. If given a choice, I virtually always pick ripping band-aids to do it right once rather than repeated half-measures. But the guiding principle is the reward is we don't have to deal with constant painful half-measures. A one time...

If 300 people found it useful and also did a net good that a good portion didn't drive deeper into Boston, I say Lechmere could have used a parking garage to replace that. Though one father out also makes sense on the same principle - though the one that probably makes the most sense is the...

And it being on the ground level is, honestly, notable too. Call me fat, because I am, but I hate stairs. Sure, it has elevators, but no way it has the capacity to make up for the escalator. Regardless of my own preferences, I believe that "minimizing friction" is an important ideal. Every...