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Very bad lighting, but we have a frame for the core being assembled

Core going up

We have dirt piles

This is a fun discussion - in terms of facilities and amenities, the pre-boom (say 2008) ranking of major stations was BOS > BBY > BON. Right now I'd argue it's BON > BOS > BBY, but with both Back Bay and South Station with planned air-rights overhauls, I'd be interested to hear peoples...

The sidewalk is open in front of this. Unfortunately they are reopening the slip lane on the western side of the site, despite it being closed for two years with minimal adverse impacts.

I've tried to edit the post to make these things more clear, some of the RFI language is acronym soup. For (4), I believe this is what is happening, except the regulation here is more recent and allows alternative compliance for lower speed equipment.

The MBTA has posted an RFI (RFI # 8-20) for EMU procurement and technical spec development, available here. Some important parts: Formally states a goal of 15/20 min headways in urban areas. Says that EMU service will start on Eastern to Lynn, Fairmount and Providence Says that platform raising...

BPDA approved

BPDA approved

Once the 11/12 tracks are reactivated (currently in RFP, already demarcated from the parking lot) the NS concourse won’t have realistic expansion options. Which is fine, because in a world where NS needs more than 12 platforms worth of capacity, the best option will likely be NSRL

Jass’s post was in the context of construction disruption. 895 spaces primarily used for residential will add some trips, but this generically applies to any project - the ratio here isn’t unusually high even (sadly) for downtown

The parking garage is on top of the bus terminal, it does literally 0 marginal harm to anyone in the form of disruption. There’s a whole website with videos explaining this! In this thread!

And the MGH Spaulding parking lot adjacent to the CR tracks. Many more acres of potential urbanity here, with great transit access

...yes, if the train is designed to support low level platforms, it supports low level platforms. What the heck are we even doing here? And I suspect people would be more willing to give the only board at high levels concept additional analysis if you hadn’t condescendingly attempted to brush...

This is reaching. Those lifts take ~20s per user. They "work" because able-bodied passengers skip them and step up using other sets of traps. But unless 76ers players take the Keystone service, every single passenger will take on the order of 20s to board. 10 minute dwell times per station...

LOL, ramp is obviously non-ADA compliant due to slope [also note the tarmac on which to maneuver the ramp. If you can pave the platform to that level of precision to avoid cross slope issues, you can just put in high platforms, which is the long term solution anyway]. If this problem was as...

The off the shelf EMU order is in the RFP stage, while the Acela II order is in pre-production, so the total gap for potential service is... 2/3 years. Obviously you can invoke delays here, but it's symmetric - the Acela II could get delayed making this entirely pointless. Either way, there are...

See above for why stairs are an even less plausible idea, but... what is the actual goal here? If it's "run more Keystone service," the currently in RFP Amfleet 3 order will provide exactly that, with longer, cheaper to operate trains (this is critical since service will run through the tph...