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That makes more sense. It's kinda frustrating that all the graphs use different metrics and they don't even cover the entire period to 2019. Eng's presentation cuts away at 2022, rather than going back to 2019. For that matter, is there public info on exactly how many surface operators the MBTA...

Following up on this after 3 months: For the link to the Mass.gov site, how exactly do I filter the list to get results for only November 2024? I can only seem to get the charts to display 1,729, but that number seems highlight suspect.

Yea. Whenever there is some traffic gridlock in the news, highways and viaducts that have deteriorated and need repair, the media never suggests that "you could just take the subway or bike". They just run stories that "highway closure causes massive traffic gridlock, people are frustrated and...

So apparently the T is now not forecasted to reach pre-COVID bus service staffing levels until late 2025 now? That's so depressing. 88% of pre-COVID service right now, and that's seemingly not going to recover for at least another year. Pre-COVID was 1750-1800 headcount. The T cut service...

The end of federal COVID relief funds, and the refusal of Pensylvania's leadership to fund SEPTA; has left SEPTA forced to increase fares and cut transit service by the start of the upcoming presidential administration. This is all despite Governor Shapiro's proposals to shift more funding to...

The past several GTFS releases have not been until 5 to 9 days before the schedule change, so we won't know until December 6 to 10th what the new schedules will be,

But that should not be requiring shutting down the entire Medford - East Somerville segment for almost the entire holiday season for 15 days. Stuff like that should be able to be done in a weekend shutdown or with early access. I can understand shutting down Medford to East Somerville on the...

Entire Green Line Extension from Medford to shut down for 15 entire days to fix slow zones at Haymarket. This covers December 6 to 20, 2024, so that it's shut down for the entire holiday shopping season and students are at school; but reopens right in time when everyone has left for break and...

The Red Line shutdown was extended to cover Sunday evening of November 17th, as well as a suspension of service between Broadway and JFK UMASS on November 24th, due to logistics. https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-11-14/mbta-reminds-riders-upcoming-red-line-service-suspension-announces-update-november

In that case wouldn’t that mean that CRRC would demand more money from the T to cover the new Trump tariffs? The T is going to have to blow up the cost of the new rail cars and pony up extra cash to finish the Red Line order even with the fiscal cliff. Also, do we even have any domestic...

How are the new Trump tariffs going to impact the MBTA’s order for new Orange and Red line cars? Will CRRC no longer be willing to finish the order after the new tariffs go into effect? Will the T be stuck with 130 OL cars and 28 RL cars? If CRRC wants more funding from the T to finish the...

Yes. This time it’s likely going to be a hostile trifecta at the federal level. GOP with all 3. This changes the context for @bigeman312 ’s comment. The missing context was not taken into consideration in the original comment. This needs a correction/update.

Yes. 1 billion in the hole means no bus service except for the SL5/28 and the SL1/SL3 combo routes, plus 30 minute service heavy and light rail networks, and basically no more CR except for rush hour service + limited interpeak on Fairmount/Salem. It's more than enough of a gaping hole there's...

I'd consider it obnoxiously optimistic. Look at Toronto that spent millions installing bike lanes and now Ford is spending millions to rip out the bike lanes. Talk about a literal waste of funding.

Having the local bus stop running on Sundays and also parking being free on Sundays is, ugh, not a very good way to attract new transit riders.

Eng is going to have to go the the Legislature and straight up say "not only are we 700 million in the hole, but we also have no more federal funds for the remainder of the decade. We need to make up all federal funds locally or we will cease to exist as an agency". Also, how much federal...

How much of an extra barrier is costal flood protection in Boston Harbor going to be; now with a more hostile federal government in place for the remainder of the decade? Would a Trump administration even be willing to fund a billion dollar seawall to protect a blue city from something they...

Wouldn't we need federal approval to do it like in NYC? We'd only have 5 or 6 weeks to set up a system now before the Trump presidential transition gets through. Too late. We'd have to start this at least some years ago. Basically, what are our options now with only 5 - 6 weeks of time we can...

Nailed it. Didn't celebrate the OL being slow zone free for the past 4 days? Too late to celebrate it now. A neccessity. Discussions are going to have to get going. 700 million hole that must be solved with ZERO federal funds. No federal funds that can be used until like 2030 at least...

Quick, before polls close and election results come in, just how fast is the Orange Line? https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-11-05/mbta-successfully-completes-critical-track-work-orange-line-remove-nine-speed Orange is almost as fast as it was past the 2022 monthlong shutdown, at about 98% of the...