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Replying to this here: It really is not silly. Running the 22 to Ruggles provides direct transfers to key crosstown routes including the 47, the 8, and the aforementioned 66. Needing to transfer to the Orange Line to go 2 stops and then transfer again would suck. Rerouting via Heath St (as you...

Right. I think one of the trickier things about crayoning this quadrant is that a pretty natural corridor is SL1 + SL3... which works well as a corridor precisely because it flows naturally and doesn't have super clear demaraction points. Like, yeah, SL1 is a useful path for service; and yeah...

I don't know if I disagree with Alon about this principle in general, but I think I disagree with regard to Boston. The thing about airports is that your mode of transit -- car, rideshare, bus, train, peoplemover -- needs to bring you to your terminal, not just the airport campus. The front...

Ah, yeah, Outline Path is not something I've tried yet, so thank you for that! In that case, consider my map a political statement in favor of calling it SL4. (Between this, SL3 disappearing and then reappearing years later [City Point, Chelsea], and of course the age-old "Why is there no A...

Whoa! Thank you for taking such a detailed look! I appreciate it, and am glad it was interesting. I'll respond to some specific points below. I do want to be upfront that, you know, I do this for fun, and so some of the nitpicks you've rightly pointed out aren't ones that I'm going to spend...

I finished the revisions on my diagram and posted it on my blog. Hi-res at link, low-res screenshot here:

I really like your thought process here! (And I'm glad the blog post was interesting!) Design Center has been a thorn in my crayon maps for a while now. It has a legitimate need and demand for transit, but the space is constrained, and it really isn't "on the way" to anything else. F-Line's...

A Green Line extension from Union Square along the Minuteman ROW has sometimes seemed more fit-for-purpose for Arlington to me -- better match for the Newton-like density (though see below), and better able to interface with the surface environment with grade crossings. But, I think last time...

I really have no idea. Based on ridership predictions, I would guess that it would be a Fall River train that gets dropped, rather than a New Bedford one.

Holy shit, they actually decided to do this! From https://www.mbta.com/news/2024-09-18/mbta-general-manager-shares-south-coast-rail-updates-taunton: My full analysis here: https://archboston.com/community/threads/fall-river-new-bedford-commuter-rail-south-coast-rail.1553/post-414879

Caltrain's electrified service is now in operation. Among other things, it looks like this will reduce travel time by 5 minutes on the express service and by 25 minutes (!) on local service. Setting aside the "inside baseball" around how the thing came to fruition, hopefully from a PR...

I googled "eastern route chelsea beach branch" (because I was intrigued by a comment in the BRB&L's Wikipedia article) and yep, this thread was the very first thing that popped up, and yup, it had exactly what I was looking for. (Tangentially, from what I can tell from reading Wikipedia...

This is the big one. I have a series of maps I've been working on (slowly) showing what places are 1SR, 2SR etc from a particular job destination. Red-Blue means that all of the North Shore gets the same level of access to Kendall + Harvard as everywhere else in the region -- for example...

Perhaps I'm overly cynical about the world, but I see Eng's remarks as a (very reasonable) bit of political strategy here. Think about it -- there are 4 possible scenarios: Eng supports BEMUs while maintaining a long-term preference for catenary; the BEMUs magically appear by 2028, and, woohoo...

@F-Line to Dudley can comment further, but I believe that freight service into the Fore River port remains very active. Just to go briefly waaaay down the rabbit hole here, let's say you could triple track from Fore River to Braintree, and leaving the Middleboro Line as mainline for freight...

There are two oddities that sorta fit this bill. First, the NJT River Line uses diesel light rail vehicles (which do street-running in Trenton -- which is why they need to be "light" rail) on mainline track that it uses on an unusual "timeshare" basis, where freight is only allowed to run at...

Looking into an alternate history past rather than a hyopthetical future, you might find this piece that I wrote earlier this year interesting: The Boston Metropolitan Railway: an imaginary version of the MBTA. Yes, I think this would be the problem, and part of it comes back to this: The...

Yes. But. It should be very doable for the following bus driver to be notified, "Hey, we just short-turned a bus at Newton Corner, please board all doors and don't collect fares at that stop." Like @The EGE said, it sounds like dispatchers don't have the bandwidth to do that, but I do wonder if...

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