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Back Bay is the employment and transfer hub in the west of Boston's CBD. Are we really going to be forcing transit riders to go the long way around bypassing the CBD, just so car drivers can drive right into the the CBD's center? Sending Blue via Storrow literally skips the core of the...

I'd still feel it would be more logical that if the Blue Line were to extend westward, it should swing south all the way to reach Back Bay Station, then follow the Pike down Hynes Station and Lansdowne. Having Blue follow Storrow is just a huge waste since half of the walkshed is water and it...

Since this is the correct thread and it was wrong to use the General MBTA thread to begin with, there is a new article from WCVB posted October 11th, 2024. https://www.wcvb.com/article/green-line-derailment-investigation-speed-operator-suspended/62583086

Thank goodness the Globe has stepped in just in time to report on this issue. A city like Toronto, Chicago, or Edmonton; can devote a lot of time, attention, and funding into transit expansive to drive down emissions. Toronto, Chicago, and Edmonton can spend as much $ on transit expansion as...

With Hurricane Milton and Helene having wrecked havoc in the US South, I decided to compare the urban areas map tool with the flood maps. I kinda wish there was an easier way to compare both maps, but it seems like the amount of urban land in Boston that is low lying is extremely high, so a...

That's why the estimate for reaching 1,725/1,859 is roughly about 3 - 4 months after December 2024, not a full year. April 6th, 2025 seems like an excellent time since 1 more class's worth of ~30 trainees after the current one will pretty much fill the entire roster of 1,859 in. Filling the...

Generally, you want the bus system to either operate in a grid pattern or a radial pattern, and avoid having bus routes duplicating subway lines, and limiting instances of multiple bus routes on the same street (of course a radial bus network would have some unavoidable trunk&branch routes)...

OL southside has spare capacity, where crowding issues on the OL tend to plauge the northside more than on the southside. The 66 bus is also one of the T's buses that experiences heavy crowding. In addition, Jackson Square to Nubian and Jackson Square to Brookline Village today only have hourly...

The 66 is one of the T's bus routes that see signficant crowding. Alleviating crowding on the 66 with an additional crosstown route to the south would be beneficial, as it also allows for one of these hourly bus service corridors to gain high frequency service. Shouldn't we want to alleviate...

Washington Park already has the 23/28 on it's eastern fringe, plus BNRD extends the 28 to LMA, so you can still access the 8 and the 47 bus there, or the 23 to Ruggles. This is a case where the 42 needs additional Egleston short turns to Nubian for increased frequency serving the Washington...

The 22 can still be extended from Brookline Village to LMA to meet the 8 and the 47 bus. Also most of the 22 is within walking distance of a north south route. If you're noth of Egleston, the OL can take you to Ruggles from Jackson Sq., or the 42 to Nubian. Along Franklin Park, the 44, 45, and...

As StreetsBLOG MASS noted, due to a 2021 policy change, the T has a larger porportion of operators who are inactive or on leave. As such, to run 100-101% of pre-pandemic service (or Fall 2021 service if we're being overly picky about "pre-COVID service being scarce in Everett/Chelsea"), the T...

The point here is that December 2024 leaves too little time to fill in the remaining vacancies, if it is this cumbersome to refill a big giant empty roster. Sure, 128 are in training, but not everyone is going to finish training (whether it be beacuse they failed, etc., etc.). Some will separate...

I do appreciate that Eng has finally admitted that the service cuts are "temporary" due to the shortage, in the letter to Arlington. Now it is clear to the public for the first time Eng wants to restore bus service, and bus service directly and not just "service" (where people typically only...

Redevelopment of 2nd St in Everett is nowhere near completion, so it would be too soon to give 2nd St. 15 minute frequencies. We don't necessarily need to go back to the Fall 2019 schedule, a good benchmark to restore service is Fall 2021 service levels. In most cases however, BNRD maintains or...

The MBTA has continued it's opaqueness and cancelled the subcommittee meetings once again this month! But alas, StreetsBLOG MASS has finally given some clarity on the issue...

I've just run into a much more accurate depection of Boston's urban footprint here: https://geoservice.dlr.de/web/maps/eoc:wsf2019# . This "new" map (I found) comes from DLR Geoservice, rather than the GHSL layers from Copernicus/EU Commission previously referenced. It is much better than the...

I'd think that upgrading the 31 and 16 to KBR status is probably more on the "low hanging fruit" end of things that would be up front and center of phase 2, as it does not require adding new bus stops, rerouting buses, or more buses, aside from improving off peak frequencies to match peak...

To be fair, it is more relevant to the GLX thread than the General MBTA thread. It should've been discussed here to begin with, not the General MBTA thread.

In that case, one could split up the T7 at Haymarket Station into 2 routes. The section north of Haymarket could be interlined with the 89. The T7 itself could be extended from Andrew to Nubian and/or Ruggles and replace the T12.