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The Fens I could go with. We already have a Back Bay. BHCC's paid the T for ads before, right? (Or am I misremembering which of the eighty thousand ads for colleges I've seen?) Sell them a naming rights deal, call it Bunker Hill Community College station. (Otherwise, yes, absolutely keep the...

It is kind of a neat trick to manage to make both a bridge and a flood barrier that ugly at the same time. I see the City Hall-school of architecture isn't quite dead yet...

Looking at the original photo, it almost looks as though that map is itself a sticker. Could they really have put a sticker on top of a sticker??? Yup, that's the official design. Very poor design liable to cause confusion, and it's not like they didn't know how to separate branches on a line...

I may be alone in this, but I kind of like Fenway having that name. The confusion about proximity to the ballpark isn't good, exactly, but I've known it to have at least a little benefit in terms of diverting some traffic from Kenmore after games (and, uh, post-game Kenmore doesn't need more...

Until its renovation within the past few years, there was at least one sign at Oak Grove indicating that Chinatown would become accessible "later in 1990/91". They seem to have a particularly bad habit of leaving maps and signs untouched in stations that haven't been renovated. Hynes doesn't...

Like, I can sort of get why it might take a bit to replace things like that Green Line map if it's not a sticker (it almost looks as though there was a sticker over it that got removed/vandalized, but it's a little hard to tell), especially if they don't want to constantly use stickers to update...

Yup. Pretty sure most if not all of their fleet is ex-Norwegian Dreamliners. So, literally the same planes flying the same routes in some cases. Only they painted them blue this time instead of red.

It's a pity we already have the Orange Line, otherwise we could keep the Central Subway routes as Green, and bring back traction orange for the streetcar ones running to Congress. I'd like to see an orange and cream Type 10 (mmm...creamsicles...)

I suppose it's possible, but ideology is a powerful drug in and of itself.

Maintenance? We did that 20 years ago! Wait...what do you mean we need to do it regularly? 🙃 EDIT: I don't know specifically what's up on that stretch of Red, but given how much they've let their infrastructure rot, I wouldn't be surprised if it needs work.

I didn't say they shouldn't complain, or that it wasn't a horrible look. You implied the carrier was substandard without evidence (unless "substandard" is defined as "never lost a load for any reason ever"). You ascribed the situation to the MBTA (which is untrue unless you ascribe actions of...

I've seen some of those intersections badly gridlocked, albeit pre-pandemic. I'll maintain some skepticism that signal prioritization would be sufficient for dealing with some of those crossings. Of course, the existing Green Line has connections to Red and Blue, and in Blue's case, it's a...

Wow. That's some jumping to conclusions... According to the previously-posted link, the carrier was hired by CRRC (which makes sense, given the T takes delivery at Wellington), and, by my read, contains zero evidence to support the assertion that the carrier was substandard (to be clear, they...

I don't know how deep the Transitway is at the South Station platforms, but the incline's going to chew up probably several hundred feet on the surface, though I'd imagine there's probably enough running room for an incline from the surface at Congress down to the platform level. But if you run...

Yup. BBC News link from 2014 about that fairly epic dang-it.

I don't particularly care, in the abstract, whether we sacrifice road capacity for transit, but those roads - and particularly those intersections - are a minefield. I don't know how manageable schedule-keeping would be on this thing (especially at peak road traffic times), which isn't...

Hard to tell if there's enough room to shiv tracks in there at all (particularly on the outbound side where the existing GL is about at its closest to the Leverett onramps). Given that we'd be talking about a junction on or adjacent to one of the steepest inclines on the GL, I think it'd be...

Gonna have to disagree with you there. That spot's where the Logan Express buses pick up from Terminal C, and that roof is definitely beneficial to people waiting (especially the ones with dogs).

The chapel itself is pre-security. I'm not sure how much more of that area is accessible. (I'm blanking on whether there was ever an indoor pre-security connector between B and C there on the second level.)

As far as I can tell, the old tower barely overlapped with the adjacent parts of the terminal. It was mostly over the access roads. That chunk of Terminal C adjacent to where that tower was does not appear to have been significantly altered externally (though there's a new facade where the...