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Absolutely. I find Red-Blue to be a letdown and am somewhat disappointed with it. While it is definitely essential for fixing broken color transfers downtown, it doesn't really extend frequent service to new neighborhoods the same way GLX does. Red-Blue, being a huge cost-blowout to build, would...

I wonder how feasible would it be to keep the KBRs up running later into the night. When the T extends subway service for New Year's Eve celebrations, they couldn't be bothered to keep the key bus routes running. This leaves Everett and Roxbury without access to this type of late-night service...

Distance based fares would be based on the distances between where a rider taps on and off the system. This means that a rider travelling from Roslindale to Back Bay would pay essentially the same fare by bus, metro, or commuter rail. If you upgrade a bus route from local bus to BRT, the fare...

The reason I refer to those distances as "super-commuting" is because I can absolutely attest to a trip from Oak Square to downtown or points north taking over 1 hour and 20 minutes. Walking out the door to head to the bus stop at 6:00 p.m. at Oak Square, by the time I finally got to Copley all...

Today's fare policy is already discouraging riders from using the transit system effectively. CR vs. bus/subway being one of the most major ones. Short trips being prohibitively costly is going to hurt transit in the long run, and the problem is going to get worse and worse as more bike lanes...

There would still be a minimum fare of say, ~2 rapid transit stops or ~6 bus stops (the distance from State Street to Back Bay). That way, people are not hopping on buses to travel 1 block down the road.

That's why a full distance based fare system would be a lot more beneficial than this garbage CR vs. transit mode fare inequalities that exist today. Zone 1A is a ridculously expensive fare to pay to get from Maverick to Aquarium, and there should absolutely be cheaper zones inside Zone 1A for...

Isn't tap out already required for the commuter rail at North Station? IIRC I thought North Station added fare gates for the commuter rail.

It would be the same forumla as an OV-Chipkaart in the Netherlands. Failure to tap out means paying a penalty fare like is in the Netherlands. Tapping into the system will draw the maximum fare cap, and tap out for the refund of the actual fare.

Do you find the dwell times at bus and tram stops to be of reasonable length and within expectations of dwell times seen in other cities' bus/tram systems outside of the Netherlands? If dwell times on Dutch bus and tram systems are within striking range of those that use flat fares outside of...

Is there any data that compares dwell times on Boston's buses and streetcars, compared to other transit systems that use distance based fares? IIRC I though most of the Netherlands pretty much uses distance based fares almost all the time, that includes the buses and trams. The problem with...

Distance based fares could still make some sense inside the 128 beltway. With so much talk of extending the Blue Line to Salem and Charles MGH, does it really make sense for a Blue Line rider to pay the same fare from Old Salem all the way to Charles MGH, as another Blue Line rider taking it...

Thank you for the clarifications. Perhaps I fell into the game of telephone where some concepts get twisted ever so slightly and it turns into something slightly misleading, so these clarifcations were needed and helpful. Also helpful to note how bike lanes carry a lot more capacity than car...

Yes, that was what I meant from the beginning. All I remembered from the top of my head was from the NJB video that "bikes don't need traffic lights". So that's all I wrote down in the post from the start. It's been forever since I looked at or listened to that video so whatever Jason actually...

If the transfer occurs beyond the shortest route between a start end point then there would be an extra fare. If there is no transfer made between the start end point that's outside of the shortest route, then only the shortest route is counted as the fare. The shortest route between Oak Sq...

Well that's how god far behind Boston and Massachusetts are compared to the rest of the world. Also there are still bike traffic signals in Dutch intersections where they exist. It's not like there's no traffic lights over there, they still have thousands around the country. We wouldn't need...

If someone is coming from west of Newton Corner it would not make a difference and the fares would be the same. They cover the same distance if coming from west of Newton Corner is by bus or by rail, thus the fares comign from west of Newton Corner is unchanged regardless of the mode or...

2nd Street looks pretty shameful with only 3 months left for Everett to finish redevelopment construction of that corridor. The render is from August 22, 2024. Today is September 9, 2024, and the MBTA is really seeming to plow "full steam ahead" of December 15th, 2024 for BNRD. Seems like the...

Man, these are one of the things that may give distance based fares an advantage. No extra charge for tapping midway as long as the same distance is still covered at the same rates. Braintree and Newton Highlands once had double fares due to their excessive distances and sprawl from downtown...

I wonder if it's due to bus drivers might not be able to tell apart if passengers waiting at a stop were kicked out of an express/short turn bus, and therefore need to be allowed to ride for free. Whereas with the Green Line is not always consistent with fare collection, or Green Line operators...