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It’s not reflected at all in the travel times yet today but the T’s slow zone dashboard says the westbound Lechmere viaduct speed restriction has been removed!

There seems to have been some big improvement after 6ish today? Same in the other direction but a bit less drastic of a drop - guess we’ll just have to see what tomorrow looks like.

The Red Line now has the smallest percentage of track under a speed restriction of any line: Currently at 36 minutes of slow zones, it’s lowest since mid-February and less than half of its peak of 82 minutes of slow zones reached on 9/9. Still a long ways to go but the progress has been steady...

Do the platforms need to be raised for the Type 10s to operate? I was under the impression that they need to be raised to get the full level boarding accessibility benefit but is there anything stopping the Type 10s from running on a line before all platforms get raised? I would think raising...

Southbound slow zones are gone today!

That makes sense - they wrapped up this latest round of Braintree branch work two weeks ago and last couple weekend closures have been more about prep work for the Ashmont surge. I’m curious to see how much of the current Ashmont slow zones actually end up being fixed during the surge - there’s...

So as of now the line has: Worcester to Springfield track improvements Ongoing design for the Newton station rebuilds Ongoing design for the Worcester Third Track project Worcester second platform construction West Station (whenever that happens) Initial design for Springfield station trackwork...

In related news, the Brunswick-Rockland service looks like it’s starting up soon! https://www.coastlinerexcursions.com/excursions.html The wording of it seems like one round trip a day though, starting in Rockland which makes it not very useful for people coming from points south - the front...

They‘re here: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2023-07/July%20AF%20and%20Board%20Meeting_FY24-28%20CIP_Draft_07122023%207.12%204PM.pdf

Some slides on the final CIP as presented today, more funding for Red-Blue and some early action projects on Regional Rail, including medium-term (?) plans for increased service on the inner parts of the lines

They’re doing a non-stop closure of the green line under Haymarket (with the orange line bypassing the station) from June 12th through the 25th and I’m really hoping they would only do such a substantial closure if that would be enough to demo the rest of the garage. Not holding my breath though.

In general, the idea is that the road has multiple speed humps on it, designed (for example) for the humps to be crossed over at 15mph and spaced so that cars can only accelerate to around 25 mph before having to slow down for the next one (don’t remember exact numbers but I think it’s around...

Something worth noting: one month ago on 3/28, the slow zones on the MBTA hit an all time high of 28% of rapid transit track. As of today, 5% of that has been eliminated for 23% of track under slow zones. It'll be interesting to see with the huge increase in work this month (especially on the...

20230224_speed-restrictions_Jan2023.pdf (mbta.com) Official monthly slow zone updates from the MBTA now happening, the first was released today.

From earlier today

I‘m guessing the lack of demo recently is because they need to close the Haymarket tunnels to finish the remaining portion and the last thing the T wants to do is shut down any part of the orange line anytime soon, so it’s probably in limbo for the moment - just speculation though.

A friend said they saw an old orange line train pass through Jackson Square this morning- doors didn’t open and the lights were off. Maybe testing for return to service for better frequencies soon?

https://media.amtrak.com/2022/11/fy22-ridership/ Amtrak showing very strong ridership growth from last year, up to 85% of pre-covid levels

Great news for the orange line- only slow zone left is a small recently-added one northbound from North Station to Community College that hopefully will resolve soon. The Red Line on the other hand… oof

Quick tour of some new construction: Didn‘t realize until looking it up that these two on Terrace St are meant to affordable artist’s condos- pretty cool. No idea if they’re open yet though This one also on Terrace is luxury condos- 2 bed 2 bath on sale for almost a million dollars. Also has...