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Seems like some of the old Chinatown station entrances might be getting reopened

Here's an idea: Move everyone from Center Plaza into the JFK building, then just demolish Center Plaza so Pemberton Sq can suck less.

And again, somewhere around 1% of all VMT in MA are just from trips to/from Logan Airport in private vehicles.

Alright, so just modeling out what BEMU vs electrification costs would look like, and the formula I have right now for fast-charging at the terminals is [(Round trip time*TPH*BEMU cost delta)+(Total charging time*TPH*BEMU cost)]/Electrification cost+Charging station cost/Electrification Cost...

I do think BEMUs will have a future, such as on short branches like Foxboro or maybe even whole lines like Greenbush, Kingston, or the Newburyport line north of Beverly where the frequencies are probably never going to be that high, maybe every 30 minutes max in most circumstances. Battery costs...

Also, do animals particularly care about overhead lines? I feel like if anything the birds would be all for it.

Where the hell is that number pulled from? Firstly, 600 miles is not the length of the CR system, it's around 450. I have no idea how you get 600, that's way more than you could possibly have just in yards/depots. Maybe if you count each track as separate? That's more than a little disingenuous...

Arguably more like 10-15.

Yeah OL is doing fine right now. Obviously more cars would be nice but Red is by far the priority.

We are in Crazy Transit Pitches, so I'd consider changes to or exceptions from state law to be within scope. I'm not concerned about Malden Center. 0.9 miles is more like a 20 minute walk, so splitting that into two 10 minute walksheds seems more than reasonable. Wellington is more of a...

Just curious, in terms of automatic train protection, where does the MBTA fall compared to other mixed Dedicated ROW/street running light rail systems in the US, such as MUNI, DART, Cleveland RTA, Septa's Subway/Surface routes, Newark Light Rail, Buffalo Metro Rail, etc etc.

Damnit, 13 minutes faster than me! More on topic, the fact that ATP still isn't implemented is outrageous.

A while ago I posted about an idea to add a 3rd GLX branch to Stoneham. There's a clear ROW up to Roosevelt Circle along Fellsway West, so the question was largely about how much of the ROW through the Fells still exist. The answer as it turns out is most of it. West of 93, basically the whole...

But Milton gets to choose where they zone. If they don't want to increase density in East Milton because there's no transit nobody is forcing them to.

By either going up to Lake Street or not switching tracks until Washington St.

is it? Most of the land is built up now, except for maybe one block. The issue with Assembly is that you can't just add a second platform besides the existing one and extend the pedestrian overpasses. You would need to build a new elevated station a little bit south of the current station. I...

The services are all frequent, so that's not surprising. The metro towards Amsterdam Centraal runs every 3-5 minutes all day, and the Intercity service is every 10 minutes ish, although that depends more on where you're going.

Hopefully they can do a better job of figuring out how mixed use works than they've done with the adjacent area.

Another part of it is that if you connect two dead-end roads, they become a through-road and you'll get opposition from people who already live on the dead-ends. So if you're not planning a whole development at once on virgin land it's going to be a challenge to get that through a town meeting...

That's not a timed transfer, it's just a cross-platform transfer. There's only one metro and one NS platform in each direction, you can't do a timed transfer on that between the three metro lines with 12 TPH and five NS services with 10 TPH and even if you wanted to. You also need to tap out and...