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Given the lunacy of housing prices in this town, I'm not sure that number would be enough :ROFLMAO:

That Urban Rail section... Is there even anything FRA compliant that looks like that? The T's probably not gonna go for time-separation (and CSX probably won't either, though they don't actually use that branch anymore). Of course, it should be studied, it's not like there have ever been any...

Cheaper than tunneling from (at least) Mattapan to the Fairmount ROW?

Melrose, 100% on board with anything? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: I think there'd be a decent base of support, and a virulent, vocal opposition. (Though we get conniption fits here when they install a stop sign, so...) I'd be curious to see, but I definitely don't agree that we're necessarily...

They stick around because they've been there forever and are reasonably well-used, meaning that any time they're proposed to be reduced (and the T did suggest closing Cedar Park in the pandemic closures, though F-Line for one thought that was more about a dispute over the fact that city gets the...

Staffing, possibly? I also don't know how much capacity the line to Gillette has in terms of adding to the schedule, but it's not as though they have the equipment (on weekdays) or employees (on weekends) to add a bunch of trains.

I may have missed it, but is the path still technically under the MBTA's control at the moment? (I thought that they hadn't finalized all of the transfer stuff, part of why it was still closed)

I mean, the broadest point is that the T's failing where things like the MWRA and Massport aren't because they have money and the T doesn't. If the legislature just used enough of its tax revenue that the T wasn't perpetually starved of funds we wouldn't be in this position, in the same way that...

I'm shocked, shocked... Seriously, this is absolutely the most MBTA thing: a pilot program that ended, one has to wonder whether they even really remembered these things were there, extremely likely that if anyone knew, or even if anyone saw these things, they were always "somebody else's...

And that's what I get for not doing enough research 🙃 It's interesting (and about time) to have a carrier like JetBlue challenging the legacies on those routes.

I'd be interested to see if they add Paris. While there's technically two carriers on that route, Delta and Air France, in effect there's really only one given that both of them are part of the Delta-Air France-KLM-Virgin Atlantic joint venture, so they're economically operating as one unit...

Since when? OL was re-routed (though with the same southern endpoint) in '87, the northern endpoint changed (and was extended) in the 70s. Blue's route has been static since the 50s, quite different from Orange.

Not a comment on the merits, but my initial reaction was "yeah, what this project needs is another cost increase..."

It's something like a bit over 600 feet between Bowdoin's entrance and the emergency exit from the Blue Line level at Government Center. IIRC, the plan was originally to make that an official headhouse during the GC renovation before being scrapped on cost grounds (it would need to be made...

Not really. "Exists somewhere in the world" is not meaningfully relevant to "exists in the US". Multiple US transit agencies (including the MBTA repeatedly) have encountered severe difficulties in introducing new technologies in rail vehicles when attempting to import overseas designs (or use...

I doubt it's particularly unique. Chicago's CTA starts service quite early, even on weekends, as does MARTA in Atlanta and BART in San Francisco (at least on Saturdays, and at least on some lines). Metrorail in Washington has always had an element of being a hybrid commuter rail/rapid transit...

I've never understood why the cards expire like that, and why apparently the only place than can help is the CharlieCard store at DTX. I feel like that might be more to do with technical issues with the original AFC system than an MBTA decision, but I don't know, and it's extremely stupid either...

I think part of the issue is in presenting things as if oversight and internal culture are independent of each other. I would agree to an extent with JeffDowntown that you can't really force quality through external oversight. I think that's overstating things a bit, because competent quality...

I mean, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they didn't investigate this one, but they don't tend to be dismissive of safety concerns in their reports (they tend to be politely if noticeably annoyed when the actual regulatory agencies ignore their recommendations). I fully agree that the...

No clue what in that quote you're responding to.