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I get the satirical point, though I am legitimately curious as to whether this one would be big enough to draw the NTSB's interest. (Seeing as how it sounds like the tanker hit a car that had a blowout or something, it seems like more "freak accident" than anything else.)

Am I misremembering, or is part of the problem with AFC 2.0's snail-pace rollout Cubic having its hands full with OMNY?

I don't know if FTA standards are necessarily more stringent, so much as the FRA's least-stringent track classification has a 10 mph max speed restriction but also forbids passenger trains of any kind (for a while I think the Grand Junction fell into that dubious category at least in parts...

Keolis' ham-handed faregate installation is part of that. At least they patched the glitch where you could re-use the same (single ride) ticket over and over...after they put the gates in service (seems like a pretty obvious problem that should have been anticipated pre-rollout). I suppose too...

I don't know the answer to this, though it's worth noting that the CR is under a different regulatory regime than the RT system (FRA versus FTA).

But, again, that's not baked into the state constitution. There's like eighty million Democrats in the state house, if they (well, a majority of them, at any rate) decided that they didn't like living under the Speaker's petty dictatorship, they can change the rules. You're not wrong about the...

I'd add "tell your rep to fix the House's warped power structure", it's not as though there's any legal reason the House Speaker is so absurdly powerful.

To be fair, the map is further inaccurate for the other color lines. It'd be fine if it said "Transit", but, "Rapid" is a leap too far. Tourists might accidentally get the impression that transit could get them to their destinations quickly. 🙃

I'd consider that a good thing, or, at least, better than the reverse. The T ultimately answers to the state, and even if the T was highly interested, if the legislature (cough*the Speaker*cough) wasn't on board, it'd do no good. Obviously if the legislature were to mandate an electrification...

Now that's a question for the state legislature (whose madness, unfortunately, has long proven particularly incurable).

Pedestrian connection, looks like.

Might have more thoughts later, but there's something bizarrely jarring about the squared-off ends of the lines and the curved turns on some of the lines. Also, it'd probably good to have a box or shading or something to indicate the segment that's geographically-accurate and the parts that aren't.

If by "ran fine" you mean that they had little to no redundancy to handle any of the myriad problems that crop up on transit systems. That things didn't melt down so frequently (and recovered more quickly) when there were more, and more reliable, vehicles in operation doesn't mean that they...

Definitely. Chicago has (or had, at least) a fondness for the HRT-in-median approach, which added notably-longer walks through lower-density areas than their older elevated lines (which were usually more convenient...at least when they weren't as bogged-down in track work as the T...)

What even is this? (And does it have anything to do with the stated desire for Commuter Rail storage at Widett?)

Less than useless, pretty much. Amtrak has no interest in sending the Acela any further north than Boston. (I'll concede that they might, in an NSRL universe, consider an Anderson RTC station for extra northern catchment if they had a Woburn layover yard, but even then that'd more likely be the...

Roberts is ostensibly the name of the nearby neighborhood, but apart from real estate websites I don't think it's used much. (That was my regular commuting stop for a while, and, uh, I never knew - or cared - what it was referencing.) Eh, I like it as it is. It's simple and straightforward...

The #3 Red Line (01800 series) cars had a weird handful of those. I recall hearing "MIT Cambridge Center" (or something like that) at Kendall, a grafted-on "Mass Eye air Ear Infirmary" at Charles/MGH, and "Bayside Exposition Center" at JFK/UMass. I agree that it could be useful to have the...

Yeah, from the looks of things the problems, either with the infrastructure, the paperwork, or both, necessitated first the global speed restrictions while they figured out which sections needed what level of restrictions, and now we're dealing with those ongoing restrictions: only the global...

No, the last of the whole-line speed restrictions (Green's) implemented earlier this month are ending. The numerous slow zones...are still with us 😞