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At least this weekend, they were using the crossover between East Somerville and Lechmere to turn trains, no single track operation. The southbound train would pull in to East Somerville, let everyone off, continue past the crossover to stop, then cross to the northbound track on the way back...

I honestly think people would prefer the entire branch be closed rather than having to take green line to a shuttle bus to the orange line to get to work downtown - not that they don’t have other reasons to close the whole branch but that could be a main reason? People can stomach a forced...

I think that number is the number of net new developable units in specific zones of the city as calculated by this slide times 0.25% (as it says on slide 10), which yeah seems to be a very narrow estimate of how much is getting built since there’s definitely over 120 net new units currently...

Where did you get the line-by-line breakdown from?

Agreed, especially since it’s one of the very few times that the residents are basically screaming at Somerville to push the development forward - they’re being very YIMBY for once and seeing no results from that yet is a letdown.

I think most of all, people go on the Southwest Corridor to be on a path, not on a sidewalk, so if the walking “path” is indistinguishable from a sidewalk, people will always choose the bike path. When I walk it, I will always stay on the walking path when the facilities are equivalent but when...

Service has resumed on the green line! Unfortunate they couldn’t get it running for start of service today but glad it didn’t take another full day.

It’s shocking if true that the blue line represents only 10% of ridership at govt center and state, I know it’s the least used line but still that seems super low.

Agreed 100%, before they occasionally had someone staffed at one of the Gilman entrances (and maybe at other stations, not sure) asking people to pay which definitely increased the percentage of people validating, but now they can’t do that anymore since there are now two separate and...

Awesome new framing of the Pru, super cool space and it’ll be even better once the food options open!

This corner of the community path is really becoming a nice little residential square with 3 projects completed semi-recently and 2 more under active construction - so fun to see bike-path-oriented development!

I like this idea - anecdotally at least headways always seemed better and more consistent when they were turning trains at North during shutdowns than they are currently during normal service. I’d also add that the current GLX service is quite solid in my opinion (except for all the baked in...

They just announced the massive 24 day closure of the Braintree branch in September: Link The really interesting thing in the announcement is a stated longer-term goal of raising red line MAS above 40mph which is very intriguing. Does anyone know when the last time the red line ran above 40 (if...

Stockholm- maybe the only metro in the world where you can do a legitimate art tour in the metro (deep stations too)!

I think there’s still some work to be done on the Lechmere viaduct (despite the slow zone on the bridge being lifted, maybe 25mph can be raised? Not sure but I think the tie issue on the old bascule span was never fully rectified) and I remember during a prior shutdown they had tried to turn...

They won’t be at the Type 10 spec until all Type 7s and 8s are gone from the system - since their doors open out they don’t allow level-boarding height platforms, the interim condition is 8” platforms like the rest of the current accessible green line stations (so bridge plates from the train...

Got to try out the new Bluebikes e-bikes today and wow - they are excellent! The pedal assist feels natural and it feels like you’re riding a luxury product which was shocking to me. Not sure how often I’ll feel like paying for the premium, even with a membership it’s not exactly a cheap ride...

The Alewife area is so frustrating to me because it has plenty of housing and office space being built, is near a rapid transit station, is maybe the biggest hub for bike trails in the whole state, has multiple grocery stores right there, and has plenty of easy access to nature, but then there’s...

I don’t think the GLX specs could even apply to the viaduct since the viaduct was a separate project entirely - my guess is that 25mph was always the design speed for the viaduct and the GLX specs were never intended to apply to it even though they imply otherwise. Speaking of those specs...

Yes, sorry I meant westbound from the perspective of the bridge/GLX, which is eastbound by the T’s definition in the tracker (and they should probably stop using east/westbound altogether since the GLX breaks that terminology with Medford/Tufts being west of Heath St). The important thing is...