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Distressing news: there is now a funded effort to abandon the freight line in Falmouth in favor of a rail-trail: YouTuber South Coast Rail Videos has a good summary here about how this abandonment would increase truck trips to and from the Cape and squander a grant that the railroad's customer...

Perhaps deserve was the wrong word to use. What I mean is that if a place has been pushing for transit for ages and the state and feds get together the capital for a major project, it feeds a narrative of distrust and permanent disinvestment in a place to pass it over yet again in favor of...

Do you have a sense of which cities and towns: 1. Have always wanted rail transit, but never gotten it, or never gotten it of the scale and mode they deserve, 2. Used to be NIMBY about transit, but have changed and are more open now, 3. Were and still are mostly NIMBY? I get the sense that...

Like Riverside, I'm sympathetic. But if it is important to count the externality of disruption during construction, you also need to count the externality of station access time. As New Yorkers are quickly seeing with East Side Access, deep bore stations are genuinely far less convenient to...

Hi folks, I am trying to find out more about the history of previous attempts to improve transit to Lynn, especially via a Blue Line extension. I was reading through the Draft North Shore Transit Improvements Project-Major Investment Study from 2004 (which took some digging to find!) and came...

Hi folks, I was looking at aerials of the Eastern Route through Lynn. Does anybody know how the T uses the small rail yard located just north of the GE plant? Here is a photo of the site I'm talking about. It looks like at one point it may have been half of a wye to the Saugus branch, but the...