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It would not be faster because the ROW north of Concord is windy and slow. In any event, the success of the direct Boston-Montreal train depends on piggybacking off of robust Amtrak service in the Boston-Springfield corridor in one half, and providing a second train to the Vermonter corridor...

There is a brutal slow order northbound between Stony Brook that is creating ~2.5 minute travel times where prior to August 2020 there were 50 second travel times between these stations. I played around with the TransitMatters dashboard and you can find a ton of segments where the trains used...

Maybe I'm late to the party on this one, but I was biking to Coolidge Corner on Friday and I passed through the reconstructed area of Route 9 / Washington St for the first time since the new separated bike lanes have opened. The light cycle at the intersection of Route 9 and Pearl St had a bike...

Virginia seals deal for $3.7 billion rail plan, including new Potomac River bridge

https://whdh.com/news/mbta-commuter-rail-adjustments-target-peak-service/

Amtrak Ohio proposals... http://allaboardohio.org/2021/01/29/amtrak-proposes-five-ohio-routes/

This doesn't seem that realistic to me. First of all, how much of these intersection efficiency gains would increase the capacity of the system, and how much would just push the bottleneck to the next intersection where there's, say, a pedestrian signal? How much of these capacity gains are...

I question the assumption that — even in an ideal AV-only world that probably won't exist — parking lanes could be converted to travel lanes. One thing that I notice AV boosters rarely contend with is curb space. In an AV world, cars need to stop at the curb to let people out or take people on...

Q: Can Self-Driving Cars Stop the Urban Mobility Meltdown? A: No.

Of course you are correct about the overall dynamics....but this Southsider would love RUR service to my job in Melrose!!!

Thanks for the update. I'm also quite excited by this. The total number of passenger-hours saved per day in the PM rush is going to be enormous. A couple of minor questions: 1) There are four stops between Firth/South and Tollgate Way. Getting that down to two seems unrealistic...

Wait, why is the new Broadway Bridge getting two traffic lanes in each direction? Broadway is not a two-lane street in that section.

How feasible would a robust road diet be here? I'd like to think it's workable in a post-GLX world.

I apologize if there's discussion of this buried somewhere in the thread, but given the size and scope of the Forest Hills hub, shouldn't there be some sort of direct bus connection to Kenmore or at least somewhere in the vicinity of the BU Bridge? If you want to access most of the Green Line...

Revisiting this post from my old bookmarks - do you happen to have the GLX/UR configuration dead-link maps somewhere else?

I don't know much about MD state politics, but in MA the identity or party of the governor matters much less than what Bob DeLeo wants, and being a transportation visionary is not a mantle he's seeking to claim. Perhaps you could say that the 2018 legislative elections contained a few warning...

No Orange Line trains have been seen since the yard derailment. I understand that they'd want to monitor and inspect the derailed train, but what about the other one? If the problem was truly the switch, then that shouldn't stop the second train from remaining in service, no?

This is extremely not a place I expected to see a gif of Jackson Yueill.

I don't fly all that often, but I've noticed something with the SL drop-off. The buses sit in each terminal for several minutes before departing. It wasn't typical dwell time problems with boarding/alighting, the bus was relatively empty and just sitting there. I suppose it was trying to...

One very easy quick fix for the Ruggles-to-Fenway link would be to stripe a contraflow lane for a short stretch of Leon St. Over the summer I found myself salmoning up Leon for 50 ft, cutting across Centennial Common, then riding up Forsyth St to the Fenway path system via what appears on...