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There will be track work on the Lechmere Viaduct on July 13 - 14, but somehow it requires the whole GLX to be shuttered instead of turning trains at East Somerville?

The SDP only requires 3 hour headways between 8:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays, with the first train from each branch arriving at South Station before 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and departing South Station at 6:30 p.m. Saturday or later. There is no requirement for service OR service frequency...

The topic of discussion revolves around a planned 2 week shutdown of the entire Medford Branch in November 2024. The entire GLX from Medford/Tufts, Union, all the way to Park Street is slated to be shuttered for two entire weeks later in the fall to fix 2 slow zones between North Station and...

Quoting from the article only mentions a morning, afternoon, and evening train as a rudimentary level of weekend service for Fall River and New Bedford. 3 trains for the whole service day on weekends. Using the existing Middleborough line's schedule gives 5 trains for the whole day for each of...

I assume it's due to the North Station crossover being too close to the North Station - Haymarket slow zone, and so they would need access to the North Station crossover in order to access the right of way to the speed restricted track? Main issue is probably cutting power off from the overhead...

South Coast Rail will have weekend service, since trains already service Middleborough to begin with on weekends (I guess weekend service is just simply extending the Middleborogh line further south?)...

There are no slow zones between North Station and Lechmere right now. As the aforementioned commentor said, North Station - Govy are where the slow zones still exist.

In other news, the MBTA has quietly updated the track improvement restoration program to include a brand new, upcoming, full 2 week shutdown of the entire GLX all the way to Medford/Tufts, with the diversion extended all the way to Park Street, in November 2024. This diversion was expanded from...

Bus lanes on this portion of Maffa Way was REMOVED in favor of a second lane for cars during construction, meaning bus headways have been sent to die in Sullivan Square traffic for the next 2 years. :eek: Can't they just stuff all the cars into merging into a single lane, and keep the bus...

Is there literally no update on when buses can once again use Congress St? There's no bus lanes on Surface Rd. or North St., so as such the traffic congestion there is horrendously terrible. If it's not reopening anytime soon, they should just send the buses down Hanover to Congress and loop...

There is a solution to prevent tragedies like these from happening again: Platform Screen Doors A no brainer. Other cities around the world have these. When will Boston get on board? Less people falling onto tracks. Less items and debris falling onto tracks. Fewer service disruptions. Maybe...

Apparently the shuttle buses for the upcoming diversion will be allocating 55 minutes to get from Wellington to North Station.

Bus lane expansions in Somerville and Brookline. Hopefully they are not as useless (in terms of being utterly non-functional as actual bus lanes) as the pseudo-bus lanes on North Washington St. near Haymarket, or those in Allston-Brighton...

July service changes will impact the Red Line, Haverhill, and Needham Lines https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-06-18/july-service-changes-mbta-continues-repair-work-improve-reliability-across-the

A look into the traffic data for the North Washington Street Bridge even though TransitMatters doesn't support the bus routes that go over the bridge. Is the bridge traffic actually worse than ever? (Yes, I did try to rummage through dozens of gigabytes of data, filter out the N. Washington St...

5 weeks later, another update on the bus operator shortage at the T. Hundreds of bus operator vacancies remain as of Memorial Day weekend. As far as I'm aware, the values published in the T's powerpoint slides includes all inactive and training positions, so it only counts vacancies that are...

The MBTA Board of directors has signed off in the FY2025 budget in a board meeting earlier today, draining the entire rainy day fund of it's $307 million completely, and leaving the T with shortfalls of $700 million - $1 billion at the state level, beginning July 1st, 2025...

I wasn't necessarily saying that it all has to be done with a single line. Watertown is probably best served with a line separate of that than to Allston Brighton, and Waltham can be served by either the Watertown Line or the Allston/Brighton Line. (If I said otherwise my bad) 4 - 5 bus routes...

In terms that RER does not solve the underlying issues with anemic crosstown and last mile shares from Allston-Brighton all the way to Waltham Terminal. Only with rapid transit extensions hitting all three bus terminals, will it fix the bus terminals and redistribute bus headways across the...

And it's going to be the same issue and problem with the unfunded BNRD's T7 route. The T7 in the unfunded bus network redesign (BNRD) is slated to: 1. Provide last mile connections from Sullivan to Haymarket busways connecting with GLX, Blue, Orange, and Red Libes, 2. Provide a crucial...