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There's something still missing. Even if police officers could issue tickets, or if the traffic cameras of tomorrow were given authority to issue tickets: It would still be impossible to ticket drivers going 22 MPH (35 KMH). Even if traffic camers were given the ability to issue tickets...

Paywalled article from the Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/07/metro/boston-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero/ We still need new 30 KMH (20 MPH) mandatory speed limits across Boston, extending into Malden, Revere, Medford, Camberville, and Brookline. A 5th pedestrian fatiality just in...

The 1 bus runs "check the timetable" frequencies all day except for maybe sorta the weekday AM peak, but 10 minutes itself is still a "clockface timetable" as opposed to "SUAG 9 minute frequencies". Source: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/2024-08-25-system-map-brochure.pdf...

It's actually pretty strikingly similar to how similar the MBTA's service hour frequencies correlate pretty well to Melbourne's stubborn approach to service hours (as well as their street running vs. dedicated RR ROW running, akin to the Riverside's BMR concept) Both the MBTA in Boston, as well...

Alright, I've gone through the task of making the 10 minute maps for all 6 time periods on the MBTA's systemwide map PDF. I suppose it's not "essentially empty", but very few bus routes meet the requirement outside of rush hours. Note that the 10 minute Sunday service map does not match the 10...

New article from WGBH about dropped trips on the MBTA bus system - Publish date is 2024 September 6th: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-09-06/ghosted-by-the-bus-why-some-mbta-buses-never-arrive

This motivated me to recreate Riverside's 2020/2021 maps of frequent rush hour services. While I have long concentrated my mapmaking primarily on 7 day a week morning til midnight service (i.e., minimum Sunday service standards), rush hour service did take a huge hit during COVID, which...

Well that's mostly due to sheer luck by concidence. Early railroad engineers building the Boston & Providence Railroad did not know that the trains/tracks could go on curves in the 1830s. So they built the B & P railroad all with only 1 degree curves out to Providence from Canton. Some quotes...

Just realized that Melbourne Australia, actually has essentially this kind of system almost exactly. A large network of trams for the inner suburbs, followed by a bunch of suburban rail lines to the outer suburbs feeding into a a loop railway in the CBD. As such, off peak frequencies on this...

FWIW I decided to pop into TransitMatters to see what they got. Here's the 86 in the southbound/westbound direction past Harvard. The 30 minute wait either happened at 1:20pm or 3pm If it's eastbound/northbound, then it could happen anytime during rush hour. There's even a 45 minute wait at...

I'd be very interested in a forum that has a more worldwide scope (also covering Canada/England/Australia/NZ, or cover worldwide transit news in the EU/Asia/Africa/Latin America/etc.) than just the US. Avoiding the cesspool that is reddit, twitter, and discord would be great.

Ooh, thanks for finding a source for weighted population densities. This is very useful. Even going by weighted population density, Boston within the MBTA service district still has a higher percentage of communties with population densities below 1,900 people per square kilometer, outpacing...

Yea, but those densities hardly justify transit with the population base that spread out. Those population densities are only 1,000-1,150 people per square kilometer. The average urban density of urban Toronto is 3,050 people per square kilometer (Toronto is notable for its suburban buses). In...

Based on the numbers provided from that URL you provided above. The MBTA needs to fill somewhere between 188 and 329 vacancies in the next 3 months, accounting for separations. So does the MBTA plan on hitting the full 1,750/1,867 headcount by December 15th, 2024? @StreetsblogMASS The MBTA's...

The Fall 2024 schedule started on August 25th, 2024. The 86 is scheduled for 30 minute headways weekdays and Saturdays, and 40 on Sundays and evenings. /begin rhectorical rant It is getting more and more worrying and concerning the MBTA is STILL, STILL, plowing "full steam ahead" for...

Yea, MSAs and CSAs are significantly less helpful than just "urbanized areas". I opted to fetch populations for here from the United States, which pulls areas from this map here used by the Census Bureau. This is where the 4.38 million figure comes from, and is only marginally better than the...

The 1.6 mllion figure mentioned matches pretty closely with the 1.68 million figure I obtained for the area roughly corresponding with all of Boston's streetcar suburbs, where I included Salem, Beverly, and Peabody, but excluded the bulk of low density southern Newton/Brookline, and Saugus...

Is it just me that finds it extremely unhelpful that the US Census Bureau lumps Lowell, Lawrance, Framingham, and Brockton with Boston (and Fall River somehow gets merged with Providence... SMH)? Yet the Census Bureau was also kind enough to split the entire Bay Area, Houston, Dallas...

I finally got around to poking into the pre-COVID MBTA GTFS file from right before the lockdowns hit, pulling out the last pre-COVID, pre-crisis, pre-FTA schedules; the MBTA ran before COVID and the FTA SMI happened. The MBTA has not run a non-crisis, full service schedule, for 4.5 years now...

They wouldn't be extended to Community College I would think. The 80, 87, and 88 would all be extended to Sullivan via Washington St. The 69 would probably be leftover and get extended to Haymarket as the sole route to East Cambridge from downtown (Merrimack St. is plenty wide enough luckily)...