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I think it's a higher standard, but maybe it should be. That might depend on, practically speaking, whether southern/western-originating riders would be significantly better-off time-wise taking that transfer versus transferring downtown. (Northern end riders would be way better off going Orange...

Might be Illustrator having trouble rasterizing the lower-case "r"s on export. The angled terminals of the lower-case R in Arial don't play very nice with adjacent letters, especially at small sizes, and I think having to rasterize that text is making the problem worse. My commute used to run...

Probably not worth the effort. There's already Logan Express service to Danvers and Woburn (the latter to the CR stop at Anderson RTC) and those run a much more convenient schedule than the Commuter Rail. Part of the point of the Back Bay service (and this would be true to some extent of Kendall...

The CRRC cars are a particularly bad example for all the reasons @HenryAlan and others have mentioned. The Patrick administration's insistence on them being assembled in Massachusetts (i.e. Springfield) immediately made the project less attractive to all of the potential bidders who had...

I agree it's probably something to do with the font, though if that doesn't fix it I've sometimes managed to fix Illustrator font-rendering issues with the "create outlines" function to convert the text to objects, I think Illustrator has less trouble rendering those consistently.

North Station's platforms are longer, but Government Center's absolutely can fit two two-car trains, they used to do it all the time. (I presume that went away after one of the Green Line's collisions.) Even when they had two trains stop simultaneously, it only helped when a Lechmere-bound train...

I like the double-line effect giving, effectively, greater presence to the bus lines, and thus more emphasis than the decidedly secondary treatment they get from the official map, and I get the intention of having them get put on a similar plane. That said, because of that plus the colors, I...

Obviously a ton of work's gone into this, so I'm a touch hesitant to immediately dump a bucket of cold water, but I'm getting major NYC Subway map vibes, and not in a good way. The double-thickness bus routes concept is, I think, quite a good way of visually indicating something that's more...

The whole point of the leadership and the committee system is to have the ability to coordinate things so that legislating isn't a constant ad hoc process. There's 40 members of the Senate, 160 in the House, it's not exactly easy to get them to agree on all that much of anything most of the...

Yeah, we will see how that goes. Part of the problem is that they had to cut the raised platform back because of how far the fronts of the cars stick out on that sharp curve. and there's still going to be at least some of that on the T10s, so I'm not completely confident.

Probably not. I have a sneaking suspicion the problem is the gap between the platform and the doors, which is enormous because of how sharp the curve on the loop is. (When they raised the platform in the renovation, they subsequently had to cut the raised platform back near the cinderblock wall...

That'd get kind of problematic when the end-to-end segments change, which happens every now and then, and add confusion with run-as-directeds and other irregular operations. The GL is basically, if incompletely, designated like a NYC subway line, where the color is in reference to the main...

The controller talking to the Alaska flight clearly anticipated getting AS389 out ahead of the United landing. That "no delay on the roll" language is common when they're trying to move them in tight timeframes (and it sounded like he said it again to Alaska). Still could be the case that they...

I don't think a governor can do that unilaterally. And it's harder to see the legislature having an appetite for wholesale privatization.

Trump Shuttle was the former Eastern shuttle, probably why that was in Terminal A, and I think it took a while until the ex-Trump Shuttle operation was merged into US Airways proper. Delta's shuttle I believe was originally Pan Am's competitor to Eastern's.

Delta was in C until the current Terminal A opened circa 2005. Continental moved to C from the original A (and moved back to A eventually prior to the United merger). The original A was relatively small in terms of gates, so it wasn't as big a loss (at a time when traffic was lower than it...

Huh, I guess that means there actually will be a Type 6 other than the mockup at Seashore, even if it's not actually a Green Line one... (The T's vehicle nomenclature continues to get weirder.)

There's so little space in there between A11 and B1 anyway that it's probably effectively impossible to shove another gate in there that doesn't block at least one of those two.

Makes perfect sense. If you're someone who can afford that price jump, you're someone Melrose would welcome 🙃 In all seriousness, though, while it is absolutely ridiculous how much the fare jumps from zone 1A to 1 (particularly since you can see Oak Grove from Wyoming. Actually, you can see...

It makes sense in a twisted way that screams "Massport didn't want to re-number a million gates". The B-numbered gates are just sequential, and crossing from B into C it goes C23, C24, C25, with the higher numbers out on the pier. Terminal C's numbering overall is very nonsensical, possibly...