Search results

When Cambridge Seven developed the color coding identity for the MBTA in the mid-1960s, the original plan was for all equipment on all modes to be painted in a standard gray and white scheme with yellow doors. Prior to the Cambridge Seven plan, surface line equipment (bus, streetcar, and...

Government Center was actually modernized in 1968, when most of the Green Line level was still only 5 years old. If you find any photos of the Green Line level of Government Center in 1963-67, you might mistakenly have thought it was built in the 1940s (incandescent lights, hand painted...

Re: MBTA Survey - Pick the New RL, OL, & GL Livery That is the CAF Type 9 design

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos They did push the $100 million placeholder from FY15 to FY16, as the review of the two proposals and the dealings with Pan Am have taken over a year. However, they also have not yet placed the full value of the contract in the CIP, only one year's...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Correct, you failed to mention freight railroads that are also a big part of the picture, glad to see you now note that.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Little old non-public operators CSX and Norfolk Southern, which both host a lot of Amtrak service as well as commuter service in DC, also project 2020 as their completion date. The 2020 completion date for the MBTA is for full implementation including...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Maybe the Control Board is being lied to. Maybe the MBTA didn't really hire LTK to design a detailed PTC plan. Maybe they didn't really issue a request for proposals for a soup to nuts system integrator contract in early 2014. Maybe they didn't really...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos MBTA will not be the first to use Wayside Interface Units with ACSES. Long Islnd Railroad still has wayside signals on parts of the Central, Far Rockaway, Long Branch, Montauk, and Oyster Bay branches. When the MBTA released its request for proposals...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos MBTA is moving forward with the mandated PTC installation on commuter rail. Control Board was briefed at October 16, 2015 meeting : http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/PTCBriefing101615.pdf Looks like they will be awarding an...

CNG can run in roadway tunnels (Massport uses their CNG buses on the their Back Bay shuttle route through the Ted Williams). They can't or at least shouldn't be used any place gas can pool with poor ventilation especially if near an ignition source like a spark from a 600V DC trackless trolley...

This is New Flyer's second order from the MBTA this year, earlier they got the big contract for 325 40-foot buses (175 CNG and 150 hybrid). The CNG tank issue dictates that the 2003/2004 NABI 40-foot buses and the 44 Neoplan 60-foot artic buses have to go. The cost to replace tanks is $$...

Replacing the 1001-1044 Neoplan buses from 2003. CNG tanks at that time were only certified for 15 years of use, so the tanks would have to be replaced on those buses for them to run beyond 2017. Although technically it is a one for one replacement (44 buses to replace 44) in practice it will be...

The beer warehouse was pretty much the only location on the original line were a Kingston station with a large parking lot and highway access could have been built. It required building a new spur on a new right of way to get access to the location where Kingston station was eventually located.

The warehouse was the original planned location for the Kingston station and parking lot. But the beer warehouse didn't want to sell and the politically connected sand pit did, thus the split line. The Plymouth station branch was a compromise to maintain some service to Plymouth. Its been...

They didn't start running trains that served both Plymouth and Kingston until 2007 around when Greenbush opened and gradually through 2009/2010 converted all Plymouth branch service to the combined set up. Whether a train serves Kingston or Plymouth first is dependent on what direction has the...

The Boston region MPO did a small three-part study of the potential for limited-stop bus service along existing routes this summer: http://bosmpo.ctps.org/data/calendar/pdfs/2015/MPO_0709_LimitedStop_Phase1.pdf http://bosmpo.ctps.org/data/calendar/pdfs/2015/MPO_0709_LimitedStop_Phase2.pdf...

The streetcar operators in Chicago and Manhattan competed with the rapid transit operators, while the rapid transit operator in Boston (BERy) owned the streetcar network. The bus networks still reflect that long histoy.

In 2000 they were incorrectly reporting commuter rail as direct operated, while in 2012 it is correctly reported as purchased transportation.

The last printed MBTA system map shows the under-construction Silver Line Gateway on the rapid transit only backside map and identifies it as SL3

The doors will be 64 inches wide, 32 inches per leaf. that width allows a wheelchair to pass through one leaf, even if the opposite leaf is closed. The Red Line cars will have more doors than the cars they are replacing: the #1 and #2 01500/01600/01700 cars; those cars only have three doors per...