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The Weaver's Cove NIMBY's are battle-tested, as the current layover site is adjacent to what was once the proposed site of a liquid natural gas ship unloading terminal. The LNG proposal thrashed around for most of the 2000's, before being formally abandoned in the face of unrelenting opposition...

There's no physical way to use the historic site for a stop that hits both the B&A and Central Corridor alignments from one access point. The switches to NECR's busy Palmer freight yard are literally 300 ft. south of the B&A diamond not allowing much of a platform, you can't physically have...

DCR and/or the towns don't own it yet. It's still CSX property with the towns paying a nominal monthly rent, so they weren't given much choice in surfaces as crushed stone was all that the landlord would allow. To do anything else would require first resolving the ownership situation.

They were involved in a fairly severe derailment on the Wellington yard switches in 2021 shortly before the big line-wide shutdown for track repair. The damaged pair pulverized a signal box as they left the tracks, so there was some amount of carbody damage. They're under warranty, so CRRC...

Sounds like a downed wire.

Additional detail. . . Coach power (Head-end Power, or HEP) in the U.S. uses three-phase 480V AC power, fed between cars by a specific nationalized cabling standard such that any train can cross-pollinate their layover usage across the continent (see: Amtrak) and also cross-pollinate basic...

No. There's a pronounced ridership bump-out around Mt. Vernon St. at the midpoint between Center and Heights that would be left un-served by the Red Line, since there isn't enough street grid affinity to fashion an extra Red intermediate stop somewhere around there. That bump-out + the...

If it's just a +1 the Needham ROW is tri-track width from Forest Hills to Rozzie, so the Needham Line would be singled with OLX taking the other two berths. You'd probably need to install a passing siding on Commuter Rail between some of the other stops to offset the loss of the double-track...

Not necessarily. We also don't know if the BEMU's that the T is evaluating can even take HEP power from the plug-ins at Newburyport and Rockport to keep the lights and HVAC on in the cars to spare the batteries. It would be nice if they did, because as a side effect a diesel locomotive would...

That's because the layover yards at Rockport and Newburyport will not have battery charging stations, only the existing HEP plug-in power for the lights and HVAC which isn't nearly adequate for traction battery charging. That's different from the other proposed BEMU lines, which will have outer...

Hamilton-Wenham and Manchester, though Somerville-Chelsea would be un-wired. Just finish the damn job if we're proposing to do that much. The whole Eastern Route is cleared for Plate E (15'9") freights, with actual clearance of the Salem Tunnel somewhat more than that. It will pose no issues.

4-car Type 7/8/9's. In the earliest planning that was still a far-future provisioning target to keep as a rainy-day hold, with Lechmere needing it built up-front because of that station's structural properties. 3-car Type 10's overshoot that figure enough to make it infeasible, but as noted...

You definitely wouldn't be getting petulant scenes like this if he had to sit through a primary once every blue moon:

Given that it's along I-95 through challenging geography (lots of hills and trap-rock cliffs that make even simpler projects like add-a-laneing 95 to a consistent six lanes multi-billion dollar propositions) and a lot of development that's grown up in the last 70 years around 95, not very...

That's been there for at least a decade, if not more. Most of it is off T property and on an absentee abutter's land, so no one has bothered them all this time.

The occupant of this gerrymandered abomination of a district probably doesn't care much about Quincy overall, and certainly not much about real transportation issues near and dear to the city as a whole.

Most of the rest of it is solid, straightforward, and recommended from many sides. I don't think the bypasses are practically going to happen with the opposition in very built-up parts of Connecticut and think they're hilariously underestimating the costs in those same built-up parts, but those...

There's less trash and debris along the tracks right after construction finished than in all the years beforehand under state ownership. But they care about this now?

Requires all-new rolling stock too to replace the all-new rolling stock they just ordered and which hasn't entered service yet. The Aveila power cars are rated for a maximum of 9 cars, only 1 more than the sets they ordered. So they could theoretically buy a supplemental order of carriages and...

Guardrail and cycled maintenance are not major considerations for a ruling curve radius. Guardrail is not expensive or hard to handle on maintenance, and any curve that gets enough daily reps will wear out much faster than tangent track so deferred maintenance is never an option. Pretty much...