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In several other countries, they would have integrated NYC's and Jersey City's rapid transit systems and built about as many crossings over/under Hudson River as there are for East River.

Wow, I'm impressed they actually cut it down to 3 lanes over the Alford St Bridge. I know the bridge is probably not wide enough for 4 travel lanes and everything else, but this means they did push through at least one section of lane reductions.

I am 90% sure that this statement was not true on January 8, 2023. On that day, I was photographing shuttle buses terminating at East Somerville, with signs for "Shuttle to Medford/Tufts"; at Medford/Tufts, there were signs for "Shuttle to East Somerville". I do recall passengers walking to the...

There was also a scheduled E branch closure north of East Somerville in January 2023 (i.e. trains from downtown Boston to East Somerville, shuttle buses to Medford/Tufts). Not exactly what's being discussed here, but I have to assume that if scheduled short-turns can be used in one direction...

In addition to this, I personally think Lower Broadway is very unlikely to be trimmed down to 2 travel lanes from 4 in order to accommodate the dedicated busway (which, to be clear, I'm still very stoked about). I can write an essay on this -- and I probably have done so in March -- but in...

FWIW, the current Middleborough/Lakeville Line runs every 1.5 hours on weekends. If we simply take these trips and extend to Fall River and New Bedford alternatingly, that gives 3-hour weekend headways. Weekday headways range between 1 hour (rush hour peak direction) to 1.5 hours (midday), so...

Edit: I only found out after writing this comment that I didn't assume GL Reconfiguration to begin with, so comparisons to the E branch streetcar can still make sense. I do maintain that building GLR is at least as reasonable as building an Urban Ring. Original comment: I'm not sure why we're...

Correction: The Old Colony Lines, as well as the northside trains that through-run to Old Colony, won't have Back Bay access. Are you talking about the last-mile ride from Ruggles to LMA, with the possible additional connections at Lansdowne/West Station and somewhere on the Old Colony line...

Fully agree. Even in an NSRL world, not every branch will get through-running trains to every other branch on the opposite side, so Lynn having a one-seat ride to Braintree means it loses one-seat rides to Worcester, Providence, etc. (Granted, it offers a much more convenient transfer than the...

My suspicion is that most riders taking the C at Dean Rd are not heading downtown, because they'll probably use the D otherwise. Rather, they're heading to local destinations along Beacon St, such as Coolidge Corner.

In addition to what @Stlin had said, if someone knows they can evade fares somewhat reliably, it affects the calculus of whether a monthly pass is worth it for them, and thus makes them less likely to buy a pass.

On the first day that GLX opened, about 30-50 people riding the first train from Union Square were waiting in line to validate our fares. Eventually, the staff had to tell us to skip the validation and just board the train, so that it won't be late.

The problem is that the exact same point applies to places like Waltham -- in fact, it's easier to bring RER to Waltham than to Reading, due to lack of concerns of single tracking. And I see no timeline in which a BLX with long tunnels (partially TBM) is higher on the priority list than simply...

Given than F-Line's summary table shows a difference of 4,700 between "on-mode new riders" and "total new transit riders", that corresponds quite well to the 77's ridership (at least on the same order of magnitude, if not the exact same numbers in 2003). The induced demand may be too low, but at...

Question: Would a trench through Needham really be that expensive and/or disruptive? After all, there aren't that many grade crossings, and similar tasks are also needed for OLX to Reading (see recent discussion) which are much more NIMBY than Needham.

Is there any data on how much Lynn Interim costs?

The GTFS data still shows the 85 terminating at Bow St, so it might still have not been restored to Summer St.

Quickly jumping on to reply to some of the points here, while I have not given the rest of this proposal the attention that it deserves. Apologies in advance if I miss something because of this. One alternative is what @Riverside suggested as an "East Somerville alignment" for the Grand...

Actually, no. I had considered that, but a few reasons why I didn't: It appears that turning from Route 1 to Revere Beach Pkwy requires going through a high school and its stadium. I have no idea if it's advised to build an El above a stadium, but if not, this requires a short capped-cut...

I came back to this to run some numbers. The numbers alone are actually slightly in favor of the "two radial routes to Everett and Chelsea" combo over "BLX-Waltham + your UR" combo, with 7.4 TBM miles for the former and 9.15 TBM-equivalent miles for the latter. Of course, specifics of...