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Also note the train-sized full window in the back - no better way to see the assets you own/you're buying than to simply look out the window! I bet 99% of this forum does exactly that any chance they get to ride intercity rail...

(apologies in advance for bringing parochial NYC politics into a Boston forum...) This was a terrible idea at the time, it was received terribly, it remains a joke and a stain on Bloomberg's term, and it somehow made the preternaturally corrupt Sheldon Silver (the NYS assembly head at the time)...

If you think a CBD stadium is a good idea, I'd encourage you to take like 20 minutes and load up Google Maps and explore the stadiums of major European and Asian cities. There's a definite pattern: the stadium is on a major subway line, or an inner-city regional rail branch line, but always at...

Random question - anyone here know what's going on with the now-empty lots across the street from Union Station? They were still-standing public housing last time I was in town, and I know I've read articles about the buildings' lack of safety (fire hazard? lead paint? asbestos?) so I know there...

One place in which assigned seating could work is, I've been on some trains in some far-out region (think Concord-to-Portland in terms of size/distance) where a section of seats on a 2-car train will be assigned seating based on a ticket you've purchased on the train platform. But these aren't...

Writing from the Tokyo area, I think I can provide a bit of an example of what those "premium" seats look like, because every major line in the area offers generally 2 cars worth of them (out of 10~15). They're called the "green car" - they're not bad! You pay an extra 500~800JPY for the seat by...

Finding a local artist or even local schoolkids to make murals along the retaining walls would be the best approach, because 1. it gives local buy-in to the neighborhood ("we made these walls, and so we'll put value on them" kind of thing) 2. an already-painted surface is less likely to be...

Finding a local artist or even local schoolkids to make murals along the retaining walls would be the best approach, because 1. it gives local buy-in to the neighborhood ("we made these walls, and so we'll put value on them" kind of thing) 2. an already-painted surface is less likely to be...

I don't know if the MBTA considered this point, but concrete viaducts are, in general, far quieter compared to steel-based ones because they rattle much less as the train rolls by.

This idea could work if the service is designed exclusively as a feeder service for the connecting trains at New London and Worcester, where maybe the line is not operationally profitable on its own but functions as a loss leader to enhance the margins on the connecting services. The big issue...

I figured as much. Basically, every parking meter would require a very high power feed installed, with the requisite electric capacity brought online. So unless the batteries can recharge in record time, or the city invests in a huge new recharging infrastructure, on-street parking becomes much...

As someone who is largely ignorant on this specific subject, is it possible for parking meters to be replaced by or expanded with charging stations? Say, you park your car at a station and the meter charges your account based on the time & charge you put into your vehicle? The solutions, to me...

It's also not going to happen when there's still so much available space on the peninsula itself, especially around Center Street and along the Bayside Trail. Turning I-295 into a boulevard with F-Line's elevated rail proposal is a useful way to make areas along that strip more viable to...

F-Line's picture shows up broken in the thread for me, but clicking the broken image tag successfully opens the photo in a separate window. Refreshing this page afterward did not load the image in the thread.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, it seems it would have been a better idea to do phase 2 before phase 1? Yeah, they don't serve the actual south coast until the very end of the project, but at least they build the hardest part first and don't overwhelm the single-tracked segment shared with...

Isn't there a fair amount of freight interference on the North side to the point that electrification can't actually cover most of it? I'm thinking of the Haverhill line in particular. So that "a few diesels" is probably a lot more diesels!

To speak slightly tangentially based on this point, a key aspect of making this work is rigorous adherence to a standardized schedule with clear local/express/super-express(?) differentiation, and open-source (or easily accessible) published schedule data. I'm more familiar with Tokyo-area rail...

Seems to me that the greater threat to transit rebounding is less the concerns over COVID-19 and more that all the state and local govt budgets are already starting to shit the bed... How do you keep people on the trains if you can't afford to keep the trains running?

Having spent so many years as a kid stuck in traffic between Providence and the Cape, I'd love to see part of the I-195 ROW converted into rails in Fall River, and between New Bedford & Wareham. Then eminent domain the properties in Ocean Grove, and convert the bike trail into rail-with-trail...

Given the multiple junctions and yards in very close proximity, is there a possible grade crossing elimination scheme for Framingham that isn't a total cost blow-out? I'm sitting here picturing brick and stone viaducts like along Park ave in NYC, or similar embankments in cities abroad, but the...