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Catching up with this, speaking as a parent whose kid just spent a while at Boston Children's Hospital (he's fine now), you cannot ban private vehicles from Longwood Ave. Most of the time he was there I did take the T back and forth (and was very grateful to live a single T ride away from one of...

Quoting with permission a friend's Facebook post about her 4-year-old:

Yep. That was included in the redesign of Charles/MGH as a place to tie in the Blue Line connection.

I have a bad habit of watching cab-view videos from places like Switzerland, and a thing that's really struck me is that every station, even in tiny little burgs out in the middle of nowhere on a little single-track (but still electrified) line, has a siding for the platform. (It's also really...

Build the NSRL and you don't need to expand South Station. Through-running stations have massively higher throughput than terminal stations.

Interestingly, only the CT River Bridge, Walk Bridge and Frederick Douglass Tunnel awards are for actual construction, the rest are for final planning and design. The Devon Bridge project is awarded $245,920,000 for that purpose, with an IOU for $2,213,280,000 for construction in a future grant...

What's childish and immature about expecting to be paid for their work?

Me too. The Type 9s are hideous.

Does anyone even make open gangway EMUs? If not, I can't imagine a custom job like that would cost less than building full-length platforms. I can see the utility of a Union Square station (for one thing, it serves the same need as extending the GLX to Porter and is way cheaper), but where the...

It's going to be kind of tricky to build the new bridge while leaving the old one in service. On the Boston side it should be fairly straightforward to tie the approach from the tunnel into the new bridge, maybe with a temporary section like they did with the I-93 Decks, but I can't see how...

For a project of this magnitude I'd expect nothing less.

I ride with my kids each morning from Ball Sq to Gilman Sq, and there's a huge number of high schoolers (like my older kid) who use the line to get to school. This morning a train arrived and we got on, only to have the driver announce that they were running express to East Somerville, so we got...

Pet peeve: I can see where some people might not know how to take a screenshot, particularly during a live presentation where they don't have time to look it up, but professional journalists have NO excuse for taking a fucking picture of the monitor.

Reactivating rail to Provincetown makes absolutely no sense. It's still going to take several hours to get there from Boston, while the fast ferry can do it in an hour and a half. And there will be basically zero demand for nine months of the year.

I bike commuted on Beacon and Hampshire for several years. Pretty sure it's the busiest on-road bike route in the state. Those lanes will be a huge improvement, but I'm sure everyone who lives there will howl about the loss of parking, and not without some justification.

Off topic, but did Sound Bites change ownership? Last I knew it was still run by the famously irascible Yasser Mirza, of Ball Square Breakfast Wars fame.

In the interest of gratuitous pedantry, it's "Gare Centrale" or "Central Station".

At an semi-educated guess, I'd say that because of the existing height restrictions on the channel, there was no need for the unlimited vertical clearance of a bascule bridge, and a vertical lift bridge probably can be raised and lowered faster and might be cheaper to build.

MassDOT just announced the Massachusetts Priority Trails Network (map), which covers mostly familiar ground for rail trail nerds like me, but includes some genuine surprises. In particular, the highlighted "priority trails" include a) a connection between the northern and southern segments of...

I wonder if it would work better to have trains deadhead back to the North Station storage yard after dropping off, wait there as necessary, and then go back into NS on the outbound track to pick up passengers.