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Considering that we've been running weekend service on bus routes that typically come from weekday-only garages (e.g. Fellsway, North Cambridge before 2022) with no problem, it should be very doable to assign 1-2 garages to run late night routes, even though with more dead mileage.

While that's true, the impression that people will get from a standalone Huntington subway project (without Bay Village) is not as clear-cut as you may think. I can easily think of several concerns: "We have so many transit deserts without any service. Why are we replacing a corridor that...

Fully agreed. The only way I think a D-E surface connector makes sense for regular service is if we want to convert Needham to LRT in the short-to-mid term, but under the following circumstances: It's decided that Needham trains should (and can) be additions to existing service, not replacing...

Maybe because the walk is deemed sufficiently long that it wasn't counted as a transfer? Somewhat similar to 110 at Revere Beach. My first guess is to make the 66 look nice (straight line from Harvard Ave), but I haven't compared it with the original official map yet.

The elephant in the room is timeline for opportunity of improvements. Washington St and Warren St* have not been proposed for a road redesign and will probably not be anytime soon, whereas the City of Boston is already leading the Columbia Road Transportation Action Plan with or without bus...

The publicity with Columbia Rd center-running bus lanes has certainly not felt quite right. Granted, I haven't checked much first-hand information recently outside of this forum, but the most recent update I could recall was that they weren't even including bus lanes at all in the Columbia Rd...

I do think there should be a bus hub with layover facilities at Everett. The area actually has a good number of bus connections, but some of them don't even connect precisely because of the layout of the huge intersection (most notably 99 and 109). Not to mention if you bring in another mode of...

If I had to guess, it might involve the switch at Kendall that they've been using for shutdowns, since trains often terminate at the station.

Worth noting that IIRC, WMATA is also facing funding concerns for the upcoming fiscal year, even more so than MBTA due to 3 "states" being involved.

Ari Osfevit's blogpost below also references the 300 ft number. It seems to be between northbound OL DTX and southbound OL State platforms, the latter of which extends a little bit beyond the Old South Meeting House entrance...

Arguably, I think it might make sense to combine Sullivan and Lechmere as one entity for this thought exercise (especially for those who interpret it as an alternative reality situation), similar to Ruggles/Nubian. Even in the real world, the two pairs of bus hubs are each sufficiently close to...

Definitely an interesting challenge! To clarify: Are you suggesting additional lines and extensions based on the current rapid transit network, or an alternative universe in which there are no existing Red, Orange, Blue and Green lines and we start everything from scratch?

Great analysis! One note about Stoughton: I think it was mentioned here that a lot of Canton Center's weekday ridership shifts to Canton Junction on weekends. IIRC, this may even have resulted in Canton Junction having higher weekend ridership than weekday; but even if I misremembered, it's...

Orange and Blue lines will have service levels exceeding pre-Covid when fall schedule starts next week: https://x.com/friendchristoph/status/1826712550756811003?t=1WPeRXvEjZrqUToOGdNRTQ&s=19

I have been wondering about this for a while: It looks like MBTA laid out several Rail Vision alternatives in 2019, and the most aggressive one, Alternative 6, aims for much more service than you suggested here. In fact, if I'm reading this right, it has 15-min frequency for every single branch...

I was on the 1 bus from Nubian to Cambridge about an hour ago. Because the bus was 7 minutes late upon departure (and I'm not sure if there was a missed trip before then), it was packed throughout every single part of the trip with high passenger turnover at various bus stops. By the time I got...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/milton-makes-interesting-case-on-mbta-communities-act/ TL;DR: Milton says the state law can only fine them (in terms of being eligible for state grants) and can't force them to comply with the zoning rules.

I didn't say the redevelopment should focus primarily on parking and/or suburban riders. I'm simply saying we should give them some secondary consideration, rather than the little or no consideration that some have suggested (either recently or in the past). Also, planning your transit systems...

Great analysis, but I actually meant Quincy Center, not Quincy Adams and Braintree. Even though QC is not a P&R station, its ridership recovery ratio is still much worse than Wonderland, and not much better than the other Quincy stations. If bus ridership was the primary reason driving...

Quincy and Wellington do have plenty of bus connections (and even Alewife has some), yet their ridership recovery ratios underperformed dramatically compared to Wonderland during that time frame. Someone should probably do an analysis of bus ridership at these stations, but my gut instinct is...