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Shoot, I think I knew that but forgot. I edited my post. Thanks for the reminder.

Yeah, this seems right. The Elizabeth Line is a good-but-not-perfect comparison. Here's a couple related articles, if anyone is interested. They describe two types of these cross-city regional rail tunnels. There are long ones with lots of new stations (like Elizabeth or RER Line A), which are...

Holy crap. So our guy in congress is showing up to committee meetings, drastically exaggerating the costs of NSRL and underselling the benefits? Then gets frustrated we can't win federal money for some reason? wtf?

And really, we'll know a lot more sooner than that. The RFPs will give a lot of info to make sure they're aiming for reasonable specs. By next year we'll know if they're picking a reputable manufacturer, and see designs for other infrastructure. There are sanity checks along the way. Keolis's...

I totally agree, a lot of this kind of planning isn't intuitive or obvious to people. None of this was obvious to me until I started diving into it in the past several years. And we should absolutely have these conversations with empathy. For this article, though, I don't extend a lot of this...

This is probably outside your scope, but on these line diagrams I wish there was some indication which regional rail lines a stop connects with, rather than just using the purple rectangle for all of them. I can see it would be tough to squeeze all the names in at South Station or even Quincy...

So how did the city council vote end up affecting this? They voted for an 18 month freeze on this project. This plan looks like they're getting everything ready so they can start building the minute the freeze is over. Is that right? Did anything else change?

Jumping back to this one, I really like the idea. Do we have any recent, comparable infills to guess how much a new station here would cost?

You can get a cool view of the tower from the skylight in the bus terminal. Again, does anyone know the status of the bus terminal expansion? It was supposed to be partially open by now. I recently went through Port Authority in NY and it was even more run down than I remembered. Major cities...

Actually, good point, because I think was reading that wrong. My bad. That 36% in "Downtown Portland" is just one neighborhood on the peninsula, basically the Old Port and waterfront. Here's a better link comparing all the neighborhoods on the peninsula. I haven't figured out a total percent...

I guess I'll bring this up again: The Silver Line extension is a good start, but nowhere near sufficient for moving game-day-sized crowds. The stadium will have 25,000 people leaving at the same time. Really generously, the Silver Line can move 2,000 riders per hour at current normal peak...

For all of Portland, it's about 16% of households that are car-free. That's high for US cities. https://urbanstats.org/article.html?longname=Portland%2C+Maine%2C+USA&s=oWCb4QdiQax1 For Downtown Portland, which is basically just the peninsula, it's 36% car-free...

Is that good? Dressing up like the Lorax seems.... dumb and childish and missing the point of a straightforward kids book. I doubt that actually persuades anyone. Your number is way off. I confess, I don't know exactly what point you're trying to make, but if racial/ethnic statistics are...

That article gives a reasonable explanation of the exploding costs (and the Transit Costs Project he links to is fantastic resource) but I think he's missing a lot of subtlety in station planning. He's painting a lot of those amenities as completely frivolous, but they're not. They actually...

Maybe someone here has the answer for you, but I always like to recommend directly asking a librarian at BPL. https://www.bpl.org/ask-a-librarian/ Call, email, visit in person, or fill out a web form. Even if what you're looking for isn't in their catalog, they can track these things down for...

I was just wondering about this on the Fairmount Line. I don't ride that often, but you're supposed to be able to use a CharlieCard and I've never once seen one of those validation machines working. I rode the other day and told the conductor the validation machine was broken. He said "Yeah,"...

Yeah, this was surprisingly sloppy for a report like this. For the transit planners out there, how should they have gone about predicting ridership? Really practically, is there some kind of standardized software? Or a lot of formulas that have to be cobbled together for each unique project?

Thanks for that, but I don't really know what that 1:53 would mean if we were to reopen the line today. (And I'm not saying we should. We should run more buses.) Like, since we discussed this in another thread, how would acceleration on a 1930s steam locomotive compare to any train today? I...

I think of trips like this on the odd chance someone mentions reviving the train to Provincetown. That train would be slow and unbearable if you took it all the way from Boston, but it could be nice and useful for these kinds of shorter trips once you actually get to the Cape. You could take the...

I've lost whatever point you're getting at in this thread. But the $50 million for White Stadium has nothing to do with redevelopment potential or building a new "Entertainment Zone." Boston is fixing up part of a city owned park, that is and will be open to the public. This is mainly to...