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It's 8+ months out from Election Day, that's why. "Undecided" is a large percentage of people simply not paying any attention to anything political yet, and aren't going to register a preference (regardless of who they're ultimately inclined to vote for) until they've paid some attention...

28% undecided. He would need to run the table almost completely on turning out those votes to make up the deficit, and that's a very tall order with the way his campaign's signature issues are polling in that same snapshot and the general lack of serious self-inflicted gaffes from the...

BTW...this is more like the minimum track layout for operating Regional Rail over Phase II. Triple track on the NEC Readville-Canton like is now planned, because doing this with double-track won't provide the source frequencies (it required skipping everything from Back Bay to Canton Jct. in...

No. The car drove around the gates flagrantly illegally just as the train was about to pass. Clear-cut, open-shut driver at fault...no guesswork and no lawsuit that will ever be heard in court. The media reports would be outright misleading if they did not lead with the car driver's illegal...

MN has had trifecta Democratic control the last 2 years, Dem-control House for the last 6 years, and Dem-control governorship for 14 years. Senate was Republican for about 6 years, but it was slim control. That's not very much like New Hampshire, where the wild mood swings put Legislative and...

Yeah. It's not a hot issue at all. People may have a general opinion on where they land, but there's not much intensity behind the picks. Which makes it all the more baffling why Kraft has made that arguably the 1-2 most central issues of his campaign. It's going to fail miserably to bring...

Except there's precedent there. The Greenbush Line had a very similar long swamp embankment in Scituate that was abandoned the same year (1960) as the Stoughton Line through Hock Swamp, and the Corps was absolutely fine with that one being re-used when the line was being restored from 2005-07...

No. It means inattentive operators are going to continue going 30 MPH over 10 MPH switches and derailing until 2031, while the T makes a confused face at the NTSB because "but we gave them a flashing light and buzzer when they were being bad!" I guarantee that we will have another oopsie or...

It's the operators, not the bus supply. The T has bought so many new buses that they had a legit glut going into the last batch of retirements. To the point where they now maintain a 28-bus "winter contingency" fleet of surplus straight-diesels on-standby at Southampton at all times, but...

It's hard to make a service a success when the frequencies (4 RT's total per weekday, only 1 RT outside of peak) suck as much as they do. You can't exactly right-size more flexible post-COVID work hours into a spread of that few slots. To make the lower-capacity/lower-comfort buses work better...

At MBTA track-mile scaling applied to the 1996-99 New Haven-Boston electrification, $30B is THIRTEEN times more. Are you really arguing that we have 13x construction inflation in 26 years for utterly generic railway electrical engineering? 3x, 5x...yeah, I could easily accept that. 7x at...

There sort of is. Railroads being federally regulated means a lot of the state and local permitting overhead for things done on the ROW are inapplicable. They don't really have to do outreach for things like restoring double-track to a double-track railbed, but of course it's bad politics not...

That's just the Phase I audio alert. It's no different from a car's collision avoidance sensors...if you ignore the blinking lights and loud buzzer, you're going to plow into the car in front of you all the same. It's not an adequate measure for preventing the kind of speeding and...

Yes. The 2-bay open-air shed at Mattapan isn't equipped to inspect and service articulated trolleys, so they need something a little bigger and preferably enclosed from the elements. They're probably looking at something more akin to the Lake St. facility at the end of the B Line. That budget...

After the sour Boston 2024 experience vis a vis the IOC, I would think allowing the city to be extorted by another international sports crime syndicate like FIFA would be anathema to voters here. But what do I know...I'm not one of Kraft's campaign advisors, amirite? 🤷‍♂️

The Glob is trying way too hard to make this an issue when it's just not got that high a temperature for a majority of city voters. Everybody's appealing to bunkered-in suburbanites with a fear of things urban, not the actual city electorate who live and work with stuff like bike lanes as a...

No. It seems to be a courtesy totally lost to the sands of time. I see lots of small shops that don't even shovel their sidewalks, and that's lost business.

Not a lot beyond the shells is actually Chinese-manufacture in any of those orders, so you have to go chasing down all the subcomponent manufacturers to see whose tariffs are actually in effect for how much. For the CTA cars, they had something like 2 dozen component manufacturers with close to...

Yeah, so? The CRRC contract has been amended a couple times already for new tariffs. This isn't a new "Omigod!" thing. The T has already been paying for tariff increases on this deal since it was signed 12 years ago, and they'll continue to do so because it's cheaper than nuking the contract...

Before the big renovation, the signage in the station suffixed it underneath as "Scollay Square". That's because that signage was leftover from one of the first Cambridge Seven design motif installations, back when the GC name was only about 5 years old.