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At long last, I now present the: Blue Line Extension to Salem (from Swampscott) - pretty big extension of the frequent transit network (4th iteration) (Thicker and darker lines denote higher frequency, excluding CR (thin lines) and historical RRs; ignore the fantasy map that is Malden/Melrose...

New video just dropped from the urbanist youtuber/social media community: Seems pretty bad and dire, despite the fact Boston is having one of the hottest summers locally, with brutal heat and humidity signifcantly worse than Canadian and northern European cities. What Project 2025 Means for...

The Orange Line shutdown that was planned for August 2024 between Oak Grove and North Station is no longer the MBTA's plan anymore! Instead the Red Line has a new shutdown for the same time slot...

How about a v3 of the "fantasy frequent network" map of Greater Boston? On this third version of the map, I eliminate half of all the low frequency one seat rides to Downtown Lynn, Downtown Quincy, Roxbury, and Newton Corner, and vacated them out to an outlying rapid transit hub, so long as to...

The state notes a 20% flood risk for the brand new buildings by 2070. Only 45 years away. That map is horrendously overly optimistic. Boston is already enduring steaming Amazon-like summers where overnight lows are 8 - 10 degrees higher then they used to be in the late 1800s, with dews stuck in...

If we're talking about burying the A branch in the tunnel and building a new subway through Back Bay, at that point, one may as well just send rail transit down the B & A railroad along the Pike. Washington St. already has dozens of unknown street utilities beneath the ground, so tunneling...

Going by the income map doesn't change anything. The lower income minorities as well as the brand new Bunker Hill redev (that's only a few months or years built) will still be flooded before the wealthier areas on higher ground in C-town. Ethnic map was the first map displayed above with ethnic...

I would be very curious how @F-Line to Dudley would handle trying to bring the A branch down westwards from Brighton Center along Washington Street, if bi-directional dedicated bike lanes on Brighton, Cambridge & Washington Sts were a mandatory requirement as part of the build, regardless if the...

Sure, but far, far, far fewer residents live there than here. We're talking about poor and minority residents that are going to be the first to be displaced by the seas, but the wealthy part of town ain't going anywhere.

Due to the new changes made to the upcoming diversions, here's all the subway service that will operate on July 13th and July 14th

Red Line diversion to begin earlier and has been extended to cover the entire trunk of the Red Line The diversion will begin at 8pm (20:00) on Friday, July 12th The diversion will be extended from Park Street to JFK-UMASS, this applies on July 13-14 and July 27-28...

Splitting the B branch in two to transform Reservior Station into a rapid transit transfer hub: Today, riders of the B branch of the Green Line have to endure a lengthy, frustratingly slow streetcar ride to Kenmore Station to get to downtown from Boston College. My newest insane proposal...

The tough bit is that this part of Charlestown where the housing projects lay on is on low lying ground and would likely be flooded by the Mystic in the not so distant future. Current flood mitigation projects are focused on the Sullivan Square area, but this part of Charlestown with the housing...

This is the fourth major derailment this year alone. In January the Green Line suffered a derailment on reopening day after the shutdown. Red Line derailment in March. Blue Line derailment in April, and now a new one today. Surprisingly, the Orange Line hasn't had one. Something about the...

It's kind of limiting that there isn't an updated version of the map. The transit coverage would be smaller for the KBRs since some of the KBRs currently fail to meet KBR standards. (requirements for KBR is 10 minute headways rush hour and 20 minutes off peak). The 57 is only running 11 - 13...

The T's original bus operations only had southbound buses needing access to Congress St. Northbound buses do not, since they turn at Haymarket to get to North Washington. Shameful that the buses are getting the short end of the stick. again...

How is the car dependency in Allston-Brighton going to be solved if the neighborhood is starved of the fastest east-west cycling connection? JP has the SW Corridor for cyclists and the Orange Line for rapid transit. Allston-Brighton has literally nothing except for painted bike gutters and a...

The 39/Centre St. corridor is also adjacent to the SW Corridor's dedicated bike paths, but Allston-Brighton has no such equivalent along the Brighton Center - Packards Corner segment of the 57 that desperately needs improved cycling infrastructure. Like my eariler post mentions, bringing back...

Looks like the restriction is in place from 10am to 6pm?

Wouldn't bringing back the A branch mean forever crippled bike connectivity in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood? Much of the 57 corridor have the street width only 46 ft wide, with some parts of Oak Sq. where the street width drops to only 43 ft. There is simply not enough room to have...