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2 minutes is still pretty signficant in amount the off-peak headways can decrease. 8 trainsets on Sunday means you shorten Sunday headways by 15 seconds. Fall 2024 schedules use runtimes as of mid-2024, which was 42 minutes for a one way trip. Early data from TransitMatters suggests OL is...

It's not about the densities being low. Even in the early 1900s, plans called for an El extension to what is roughly today the Malden bus terminal. This extension would've followed the routing of today's 109 and 106 buses from Sullivan Square via Broadway, Sweetser, and Main. Plus the southside...

I think Harvard's far northwesterly location plays a decent strong role in diverting demand away from Back Bay and Kenmore, being signifcantly closer to Watertown Sq. compared to Kenmore or Back Bay. While the Waltham-Watertown-Newton Corner pipeline is pretty strong, once you get to Watertown...

Not successful enough to avoid missing their opportunties in the 20th century for full conversion to rapid transit. Now I'm curious, how much faster was the 57 and the A back in the 1920s - 1960s era, compared to today? For the streetcars to be successful, they've got to complete their duty...

I wonder if the reason transit never really extended west of Boston is because the metro-west demand is split between the B & A/57 corridor, and the 70/71/Watertown Branch RR corridor. Because demand is split between the two north and south of the river, it was not as concentrated as the Quincy...

Commuter Rail winter schedule was postponed with no notice, no warning, no explaination. Originally Nov. 4th is now Nov. 18th. - https://www.mbta.com/service-changes/fall-2024-service-changes Taken from Reddit:

The Orange Line is now back. Hopefully we can see some good results in the very few days we have before the federal election that's looking more increasingly grim. Typically the first few days always have signal problems for some unknown reason. No early morning data from TransitMatters at the...

The full service delivery update proposal is now available: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2024-10/2024-10-22-service-delivery-policy-draft.pdf

The bus SDP changes actually make tradeoffs that "penalize" some standards in favor of tighter standards elsewhere Frequency standard change: Prior to December 2024, KBR had 20 minute evening and weekend frequencies compared to heavy and light rail. After December 2024, the 10 minute rush...

New update:

Buses have not recovered service levels, at best the T has only barely added any new bus service since the great Summer 2023 bus service cuts. As of February 2024 we were at 85% of pre-COVID bus trips, which is about where it fell down to at its low in Summer 2023. Right now we are only at 88%...

Well this upcoming election has big implications for the future of transit and cities. If people haven't seen CityNerd's videos about Project 2025 and Agenda 47 then we're going to end up with a lot of disappointment right after celebration. Well the improvements are of course concentrated on...

https://www.mapc.org/news/fed-grant-to-fund-congestion-relief-solutions/ The shuttles feel like a waste. 30 minute headways for "the last mile in a city neighborhood" is basically useless for spontaneous trips. They don't appear on system maps and so would be hard for new riders to find. Why...

TransitMatters has a limit of 150 days before it switches to weekly view. There is only a single week of data and it's less than a week so far. You can use weekly view on TransitMatters for up to 2 years period.

What's with this rush to prematurely celebrate? Can we wait for all T riders to get their turn before saying "the T is at its best"? Orange is not done until November. Red after Thanksgiving, Green and buses in 2025. If you wait 9 more days, then wait 5 more days, national voters may decide...

GLX derailment update from the NTSB: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/RRD24FR017.aspx

Wouldn't that mean you want a hurricane to track immediately west of Boston to put Boston on the right-hand side of a hurricane? Such a track would put Boston in roughly the same location as Tampa Bay in Helene, or Port Charlotte in Milton. You'd also want a track where the hurricane is pointing...

This. Quincy/Milton/Braintree riders get OSR to Kendall, Central, and Harvard. Weston/Newton/Wellesley drivers can drive to the front door of Copley Square (and the absurd idea to give them an extra 2 lanes to do so). Apparently, somehow, Eastie and Lynn; communities that would be better served...

The bus network in Allston-Brighton would need reconfiguring to align with the new rapid transit line. Oak Square to Kenmore is 35 minutes during rush hour on the 57. From Brighton Center it is 28 minutes. We're not running buses stuck in traffic after the B & A subway gets built. We're sending...

B & A is pretty much the only direct routing to Newton and Watertown, unless we're planning to tunnel under Allston-Brighton (which would be somewhat roundabout from Watertown). The routing assumes it follows B & A all the way to Brookline Ave,, if Blue eats the GL central subway tunnel (or if...