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It would be interesting to see how many of those Logan passengers are Boston originating versus connecting. To remove the connecting passengers we'd really need to get our high-speed rail terminal out to Logan. Our current connections to South Station are not going to cut it for connecting...

OMNY is u OMNI is undoubtedly easier. (Except for the trick of setting up "transit pay" on your phone so you don't need to try to unlock the phone at the gate.) But many of us using the DC Metro download the SMART App and load funds (or a pass) before walking to the station. :cool:

104 Canal is on the corner. 110 Canal is right next door, but only on Canal. Valenti Way, the side street, is going to be challenging for curb cuts because it is a narrow 2 way street. (Not even any parking to eliminate, just driving lanes and narrow sidewalk.) We should be able to support...

I think the long term vision is closing the street off to cars (except perhaps delivery vehicles at restricted hours). Making is a true pedestrian zone. Hotels want curb cuts for pick up / drop off by taxi and app service vehicles. They also have a ton of drop offs of food orders by vehicle...

The only problem with lots of hotels on Canal Street is it pushes back against any attempt to pedestrianize the street.

1 m/s^2 is pretty standard for straight-EMUs. So it sounds like BEMUs are achieving that level of acceleration.

Any extension to Hanscom would totally kill the project. No one in Lexington or Concord is advocating for more flights out of Hanscom -- they are looking to restrict the use. Making Hanscom easier to use is DOA.

The rough plans for the Fort Point Post Office site I have seen include a string of buildings along Fort Point Channel as well as accommodating the MBTA track needs.

My understanding is that EMUs in France and China use their full acceleration potential with no issue of rider comfort. So until BEMUs are directly on par with EMUs in acceleration, you are leaving transit performance potential on the table. And you are also leaving transit capacity on the...

I don't think the redshirts should directly intervene, but they don't ever seem to call for help either. They are supposed to be the eyes and ears in the system.

The NYC interventions I was talking about are not the police stationed in stations. There are targeted mental health worker groups who collect people who are clearly having mental health issues in stations, and move them to treatment facilities. The redshirts in the T stations ignore mental...

I will grant you that point. Also, you could deploy NYC-style interventions in the lobby area to try to get those people the help they need.

Cannot explain the architecture choices. But the low cost materials are pretty much mandated. These units are 100% low AMI affordable housing. This is not even mixed income housing. Our financing systems won't pay for quality materials in pure affordable housing.

Thinking that controlling fare evasion is going to fix crime in a transit system feels like magical thinking to me. The true criminal, intent on committing crime on the subway, (pick pocket, snatch and grab, etc.) will pay the meagre fare to get access to their targets. The individuals with...

OK, but does stopping fare evaders (most of whom are not violent criminals) actually keep the violent criminals out of the system? Or do the violent criminals just pay the fare, and then get violent like they want to anyway? Or do they just get violent outside the fare gates rather then inside...

Boston Globe article today on just this point. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/12/science/hurricane-new-england-at-risk-climate-change/

That statistic is worded in a way to make it seem extreme. Also from the article: As Janno Lieber, chairman and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, explained, “not every fare evader is a criminal” but virtually all criminals “evaded the fare.” 94% of those arrested for a...

If you don't interline, you need a yard and maintenance facility (not just a yard). And your rolling stock is line dedicated, a bit like the Mattapan line -- which is operationally not great for flexibility. From a planning perspective, whatever phases you lay out should coordinate with the...

Exactly, portals and needed alignments are all roughly worked out and land-banked to prevent decisions that would disrupt the potential for the NSRL. True on both the north and south sides. And both will still need surface stations for the many trains (at regional rail frequency) that do not...

The plantation reference in Rhode Island's name was not an accident. The "Narragansett Planters" were a set of 25-30 large plantations in Washington County (South County) Rhode Island, that fed food resources to the triangle traders in Newport (some of whom did simpler north-south packet runs...