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This is only really an issue for southern New England, and to a lesser extent Philly/NYC/Atlanta to a much lesser degree. I was able to use the existing US census data outside of New England as-is for the most part, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England already compiled this kind of...

Where are these "0.9M Worcester" and "1.6M Providence" population figures coming from? Because I can absolutely assure here that those values are not what the US Census Bureau has for these cities in the latest, up to date, 2020 census 4 years ago. The official government figures for Worcester...

Would it be possible to do bi-directional, center-running bus lanes, on all of the 57’s Comm Ave segment, independent of the Green Line tracks? There’s many ways it could work, counter-flow bus lanes could be used to share platforms, amongst other possible solutions.

Rerouting the 64 is pretty high on the "B & A subway" bus network reconfiguration in Allston-Brighton. RUR at Newton Corner, Faneuil, Boston Landing, and Beacon Yards is only enough to scrap the 501 and 504. But quad tracking the B & A for rapid transit & slapping extra infills at...

The issues plauging the 57 are essentially unfixable without huge major costs to the neighborhood. Washington and Cambridge Streets are simply too narrow to accommodate any center running bus lanes + two way bike lanes on the side + bus stops on both sides + 1 travel lane for cars in each...

Original post discussed the 502, which was a typo. Its probably just easier to write it as 50x or 5xx routes. The rationale is that if you RUR-ize Newton Corner (and Faneuil), you can massively increase frequency on the 64, 65, and 86 to increase crosstown connectivity in Brighton Center, where...

Moving the primary transit corridor for the inner west streetcar suburbs onto the B & A is highly desirable. You can hands down cut down drastically on the 501, 504, and 57 bus routes and redistribute the bodies further westwards. The 57, 501, and 504 are notorious for consuming loads of buses...

In 2019, 3 Greenbush trains, 4 Kingston trains, and 3 Middleborough trains all arrived at South Station between 7:15am and 9:35am. Only 4 trains departed South Station in the outbound direction in the same timeframe. That's 14 trains on the OC mainline between 7:15 am and 9:35 am during the...

The trunk through Brockton seem to be getting Fairmount Line frequencies, which is quite surprising. I was only expecting the split branches to only get 13 weekday trips and 8 weekend trips (26 weekday and 16 weekend trips in the trunk) at most, which is what our worst commuter rail lines see...

Reddit user spots an MBTA system map from December 2020 out in the wild at Ruggles, and it shows the C Branch running to North Station alongside modern day GLX routings.

MBTA to spend 193 million on shuttle buses in order to fix systemwide slowzones (link to article, same link that was posted on reddit): https://archive.ph/WiUJW

The issue at talk, is that, at some point, a single zone becomes "too big" to continue justifying having dense lower income areas making short bus rides closer into the city, subsidize longer bus trips made by wealthier commuters who live further away from the CBD in less dense areas. Framingham...

It wouldn't be possible. The street grid doesn't align with the rail grid. Only the Green Line's B, C, and E branches are busable, plus Red between Charles and Porter. You can't have a night route paralleling Orange south of the city. You have to use either Washington or Huntington. Using...

The goal would not to be making the buses or the subway expensive, they would make shorter trips cheaper. In an ideal world, $2.40 could be set as a base fare for travel distances of 6 - 9 miles or as 9 - 12 miles. Taipai's distance based system is quite affordable, and in my earlier comment, I...

I wonder if it'd just be better to take the N39 (night 39 bus) from Forest Hills and extend it to Roslindale Square as the N39E. It could also be interlined with the N32 (night 32 bus) by simply detouring it onto Washington to serve Rozzie Square, before returning back to Hyde Park Ave. The...

Fixing broken downtown transfers is something of course is very valuable. Fixing Kenmore - OL Northside is relatively trivial, since we already have the tracks and turnbacks to do so, we just need streetcars to use the turnbacks. Red-Blue and NSRL require costly tunnels that cost $1 billion to...

For the outer hubs, it is only needed to hit the major bus terminal itself. Perhaps only Quincy Center or Roslindale Square is far as desirable, and going further isn't as necessary as in the inner core streetcar suburbs.

I suppose Red-Blue is more akin to Boylston Outer in that regard than with a Huntington Avenue Subway. Red-Blue is only 1,000 feet to 2,000 feet. So Red-Blue is more akin to 2 billion per mile, not 1 billion.

The main issue of Red-Blue is that it's literally a full billion dollars just to extend the tunnel 1,000 feet down the road. Other countries outside the anglosphere can and have done this much cheaper. If Red-Blue were only a fraction of the cost, there'd be extra bandwidth to do both outward...

Seems like the Netherlands may have implemented distance based fares better than Singapore in this regard. Not having all door boarding is the problem here with Singapore. (Also helps to have further apart stop spacing which is common in the EU compared to the US). The Netherlands also uses...