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Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 I love the journalistic hype they're trying to create around a 24-train order, considering it's only 10 percent of the entire Green Line fleet. Those Type 7s and 8s aren't going to be leaving for quite awhile based on the 2017 date for the first Type 9s.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos The thing is... I really don't think it was riders raising all of the fuss about fare evasion. When you have a budget shortfall, it's always easiest to point the finger at an sitting target (fare evasion) than something that is a much more systemic...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 That's like saying Boeing is an Illinoisan company, not an American one. A person can be ethnically and culturally Basque, but that doesn't take away from his Spanish nationality. For a company whose headquarters are located in the Basque Contry but...

Ridership increases for both the Red and Orange are pretty amazing - basically leaving the two neck and neck when compared on a passengers-per-mile (Red=13K, Orange=18K) and passengers-per-trip (Red=623, Orange=627). Not sure what the complete saturation point is, but it appears we're scooting...

What kind of maintenance flexibility is derived from married pairs on Red/Orange? Neither line has plans for any sort of platform extensions, nor do they use variable train configurations in revenue service. A long list of systems utilize fully articulated trains to much success, meaning the...

Curiously, the MBTA says there are no ridership forecasts/goals for the pilot? :confused:

That looks great, davem. Kind of reminds me of the KickMaps of NYC and London. My only two comments: 1. Perhaps it would be best to draw combined lines like 1/2/3 and 6/7 as distinct lines since the routes separate and join at different points? Right now you can't tell whether the 1/2/3...

It's so asinine. The Washington Street corridor from Forest Hills to Dedham Mall should absolutely be part of the program. The fact that 2-5+ different routes cover the corridor doesn't make it less important than the so-called "key bus routes". It's such a flawed system. So many corridors...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Trolley driver in crash has decades of motor vehicle violations The shock. The awe. I am sure speed was more than a contributing factor. Let's be honest - it was likely the reason for the derailment. I can recall more than a few times feeling...

^ That's obviously not the point of selling naming rights... the only thing that it does is guarantee the MBTA a fixed level of revenue over the life of the contract. Something that isn't subject to the seasonality of ad demand in the transit out of home arena.

Nomenclature for the stations or lines wouldn't likely change in practice. The way it operates in Madrid is that Vodafone is really just paying for permanent out of home media impressions with advertising on all signage, maps, etc. Nobody actually says "Vodafone Sol" or "Vodafone Line 2" when...

Just annex the land wherever the stadium would be. :)

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild Why wouldn't they just temporarily resign the platforms so that D and B are on the inner track and E and C on the outer? Granted they'll always be making adjustments, but might be better from a crowd-control standpoint to be as consistent as possible through the closure.

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild It was certainly public, but "carefully thought out" remains to be seen. Let's wait and see if their modeling is actually correct and somehow all of the movements that originate/terminate/transfer at Government Center can be easily absorbed by Park/State/DTX. For...

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild Can't wait to deal with the massive influx of passengers on the already-crowded DTX-State hop. :D

Of their top ten destinations served, though, only LAS has more than 10 flights per gate per day. The average is around 8. What Kelly is quoted as having said is entirely true - they could even go as high as 12 flights per gate per day, if they pushed their scheduling to the max. My guess is...

If this first initial push outside the Wright Amendment boundaries proves successful, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Southwest axe a few frequencies on routes like DAL-Wichita/Tulsa/Midland/El Paso/Albuquerque/Little Rock in favor of a few nonstops to Boston/San...

Charlesgate E and W should more than be able to carry the traffic volumes on the Bowker provided that Boston actually installs smart traffic lights instead of the outdated mechanical ones we have everywhere. No need for even an even more convoluted mess of ramps and roads.

The part about the Big Dig debt is certainly true since that is probably the single biggest obstacle it has from a budget perspective. You just can't carry that kind of a debt load with stagnant revenues and ever-increasing expenses with zero increase in labor productivity. Labor costs are...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I'm not quite sure I understand the value of such a long contract for the commuter rail - why isn't it something that is reviewed every four years or so?