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I know this is highly unlikely, but: What if we use this opportunity to build an egress north of Alewife? This kills several birds in one stone: It serves as an access tunnel for hi-rail vehicles, as described in the meeting description above. If you build a crossover north of Alewife as part...

Unfortunately, this has resulted in a whole mess over flights from China mainland to the US (and to western countries as a whole): Because US airlines can't operate through Russian airspace, they generally find less desire to operate more US-China flights. Because of this, US DOT is limiting...

The difference seems to be primarily for the "crossing X zones" scenario, particularly trips that do not enter downtown Boston. So a trip from Zone 4 to Zone 2 costs less than Zone 4 to Zone 1. Because of this, I think @F-Line to Dudley's interpretation of Lynn being unfairly treated is...

SL3 will likely still have a good reason to exist, and this is actually something that had been discussed a few times before. There are plenty of people from Chelsea and BL using SL3 to go directly to Seaport, where it remains the most attractive option by far compared to BL-RL-SL2. Then there...

Of course, that should be coupled with the real elephant in the room: Lower the fares on the Needham Line so that it doesn't take $6.50 to go to Roslindale with it.

BNRD does have a 15-min corridor for Quincy, in the form of shared service between the 220 and the 222. Assuming late night service only covers Frequent Bus Routes -- which is most likely what will happen anyway -- that's the only possible logistical problem. But a single corridor should still...

Every transit project pushes other projects further back. By this argument, we should build nothing. The inability to keep construction costs low is also irrelevant to the discussion for the same reasons. An expansion done at $1 billion per mile is better than no expansions at all, especially...

Gotcha, yeah I misremembered pretty badly lol. The equity concerns may have been for getting rid of the distance-based fare and replacing it with flat fare?

Agreed: As long as you're willing to do the active physical activities yourself, time savings with cycling typically outweighs transit for short trips, even with frequent transit service. This is especially true in an American context (even in urban environments like Boston) because: Due to...

I am apparently late to the discussion about distance-based fares, and I didn't read through everything in detail. (I know that sounds ironic, but my IRL schedule has been very hectic lately.) But I do want to share my experiences from Singapore when I lived there. Singapore uses an entirely...

Off-topic, but here are photos of legit "bike traffic jams" that I took in China: (Unfortunately, cars are still given priority at intersections like this. And unfortunately, most streets in China are much wider than this. It's a much more car-centric country than you may have expected.)

Considering that we've been running weekend service on bus routes that typically come from weekday-only garages (e.g. Fellsway, North Cambridge before 2022) with no problem, it should be very doable to assign 1-2 garages to run late night routes, even though with more dead mileage.

While that's true, the impression that people will get from a standalone Huntington subway project (without Bay Village) is not as clear-cut as you may think. I can easily think of several concerns: "We have so many transit deserts without any service. Why are we replacing a corridor that...

Fully agreed. The only way I think a D-E surface connector makes sense for regular service is if we want to convert Needham to LRT in the short-to-mid term, but under the following circumstances: It's decided that Needham trains should (and can) be additions to existing service, not replacing...

Maybe because the walk is deemed sufficiently long that it wasn't counted as a transfer? Somewhat similar to 110 at Revere Beach. My first guess is to make the 66 look nice (straight line from Harvard Ave), but I haven't compared it with the original official map yet.

The elephant in the room is timeline for opportunity of improvements. Washington St and Warren St* have not been proposed for a road redesign and will probably not be anytime soon, whereas the City of Boston is already leading the Columbia Road Transportation Action Plan with or without bus...

The publicity with Columbia Rd center-running bus lanes has certainly not felt quite right. Granted, I haven't checked much first-hand information recently outside of this forum, but the most recent update I could recall was that they weren't even including bus lanes at all in the Columbia Rd...

I do think there should be a bus hub with layover facilities at Everett. The area actually has a good number of bus connections, but some of them don't even connect precisely because of the layout of the huge intersection (most notably 99 and 109). Not to mention if you bring in another mode of...

If I had to guess, it might involve the switch at Kendall that they've been using for shutdowns, since trains often terminate at the station.

Worth noting that IIRC, WMATA is also facing funding concerns for the upcoming fiscal year, even more so than MBTA due to 3 "states" being involved.