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They're fare machines, I'm not sure what you expected. Here are some from London and Paris: In terms of functionality they look pretty good. The side buttons are better than touch screens IMO and everything is labeled clearly.

Is it being cut or is the scheduled service being changed to reflect what the actual service already is? If you add up the new frequencies they're damn close to the 28TPH Park St is seeing currently.

I was thinking more along the lines of a subway through the Mount Bowdoin area to Fields Corner but you're right that is an easy option. It just misses so much area I think it would probably come out worse in any comparison.

If you do that you must do something about crowding though. Probably wide, spanish solution platforms for easy crowd flow. Two stops definitely can work, I think the Newbury-Comm Ave block is wide enough for a Copley station, and Back Bay can just go under Back Bay. Plus one for Washington...

I mean, I'd think such a modification could be done by just raising the track and adjusting the height of the wires rather than actually modifying the concrete viaduct. The actual height adjustment we're talking about here is a little over 1 foot at its maximum. Assuming that can be done, that's...

Many towns in Western Mass are small enough to be walkable/bikable. This is by design, they were built as railway towns. See West Brookfield or Deerfield. They were built as railway towns, they can become railway towns again.

From the same document, the Union Sq platform would be on a section with a gradient of approximately 0.5% so that side is totally fine. But you're right that the Medford side is steeper than 1%. That being said, I would argue quite strongly that a viaduct needing modifications does not kill a...

You need a slightly curved platform but this part is not a problem. I don't see anything in the design standards which would prohibit this. As long as the grade doesn't exceed 1% it's fine. I can't tell if that's the case but it does not look particularly steep. The Lowell Line station is a...

There is definitely development around Lechmere. It's just that said development is already very well served by the GL and OL, and would seemingly require 1 mile of extra subway as opposed to .5 miles of elevated if you want to both hit Cambridge Crossing, and have a transfer to the GL at...

Honestly I think it should just join the Grand Junction.

Excellent point about Copley/Back Bay being a strong weekend/off peak destination in addition to commuter demand. However, I feel like there's a glaring flaw with this analysis, which is that it entirely excludes CR transfers. On an average weekday in Fall 2024, ~6,800 passengers per day...

Not surprising. My partner recently flew KLM from AMS to BOS and said that it was mostly empty.

Not that I'm aware of at least. The 1945 BERy map that includes the Braintree branch doesn't have a station at Neponset, although it does feature one at Atlantic.

One thing I haven't seen brought up yet is bunching, which can make two trips act like one. If you eliminate a trip that's almost always bunched from the schedule, that's not really cutting service. No that's not every case, or even most cases, but it definitely makes the comparison between...

Arriva does the same thing here in Groningen/Friesland on the unelectrified lines.

Big batteries in things aren't new. People leaving their EVs in their garages overnight don't come back to them with significantly less charge, trains aren't any different. It's not like the battery is running all night to keep the lights on, that's what the extra electrical supply is for.

At lower frequencies and longer distances, and especially if they can charge while en-route rather than at dedicated charging stations, BEMUs are more economical than straight EMUs and electrification, and they don't (usually) have significant performance downsides either. Once you get past...

The BEMU range figures published are usually way, way below what the batteries can technically do. The Class 777 operated by Merseyrail in the UK has a nominal range of 34 miles, but in a test it did 84.

I'm not sure either of these options are necessary though. The shortest common "normal operation" BEMU range I've seen is 50 miles, and ranges of 75 mi or more are hardly uncommon at this point. It really seems like that should be enough to do the Rockport-Beverly round trip entirely on battery...

I'd revise my estimate down to 225ft. Not nearly as bad as I thought but it doesn't really make the long detour for the Marginal Rd worth it. If it was a cross-platform transfer I think it would be arguable, but even then it's still a 5 minute detour for Oak Grove passengers. Is it though? I...