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Not my photo (actually taken by MassDEP in 2008) but here's one that baffled me for a bit.

Valley Road being eliminated would end a nearly-century-old oddity: the station is not and has never been at Valley Road. Valley Road is 450 feet to the west, while Rock View Road is half that distance. It's not a result of names being changed - the road names were in place decades before the...

Also interesting to note: after being reintroduced in December 2024, 57A service is again being cut in favor of better frequency on the full 57. They're claiming frequency increases from "every 15-20" to "every 10" on the 77 at peak hours as well. However, the 77 currently seems to run as...

https://www.mbta.com/news/2025-03-27/mbta-announces-spring-schedules-increases-subway-and-bus-service-frequency

They would have had to drive up this ramp, despite a gate, yellow crossbars, and no indication it is open to the public. Then they would have had to drive about 200 feet along what is clearly a platform to get to that point. That's an extra level of cluelessness compared to, say, the people who...

My bet is that the following will be complete by 2035: Red-Blue Connector, Battleship Cove, Buzzards Bay, South Salem, Fairmount electric service, SL3, Blue Hill Avenue, BNRD completion. Those that I wouldn't be surprised about: GLX to Route 16, Edgemont infill, GLX to Needham, Nashua...

With South Coast Rail open and nothing else under construction*, the question becomes: what's the next transit expansion for the region? This is my list of plausible candidates - i.e, those projects that are sufficiently in the public consciousness that them being under construction within a...

Cedar Grove is a definite keep to me. It's the best transit access to Cedar Grove cemetery and Dorchester Park (especially if Butler is closed), and 1800 feet is a reasonable light rail stop spacing. Given the difficulty of providing an accessible path from the outbound Ashmont platform to...

The MBTA now has a project page for the Longwood Medical Area Bus Circulation Study: https://www.mbta.com/projects/longwood-medical-area-bus-circulation-study Bus Network Redesign calls for substantially more service to the LMA, but punted on actual routings within the LMA, so this study is to...

This is what the MBTA page for Middleborough/Lakeville station (to be renamed Lakeville station tomorrow) currently looks like. Shuttle trains to Bridgewater were considered around 2017 when SCR was being reevaluated, but not deemed practical. Yet somehow they got coded into the website!

Lexington also isn't *that* transit accessible - the only service is the 62 and 76. They have 20-25 minutes combined at peak, but hourly off-peak and no Sunday service. It's a depends-on-traffic 20-minute ride to Alewife; even if you increase frequency and service span, Lexington is (barring a...

I don't see anything that says the station reconstructions have been eliminated, just that this specific advertisement is for the power upgrades and the Mattapan carhouse. The power upgrades also include work in Codman Yard - i.e, for the expanded Red Line fleet - and I imagine that drives the...

One part - the blog post notes that Lowell and Haverhill both had limited midday service due to construction, which is likely why the inside-128 stations were some of the only ones that didn't have better-than-average recovery. However, all four northside lines have less-than-impressive recovery:

A correction: it is physically possible - here's a (rare) example at New York Penn: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Crossover_in_Penn_Station_NY_between_Tracks_9_and_8.jpg But you have to move the platform edge back, and thus deal with a larger gap, to make it work. Maybe...

It's a streetcar map of Massachusetts that I've cobbled together; it's about 90% complete. I do plan to publicly release it once I've completed it and cleaned it up.

You physically cannot have a switch next to a high-level platform. Any train making the diverging move (using the orange track) will hit the platform. The track layout simply doesn't make any sense. Why would you want inbound local trains to cross over the outbound main track to reach the...

I severely doubt that Comm Ave west of BC will ever be suitable for anything more than a local bus route. It made sense in the streetcar era to access Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, and Norumbega Park - poaching ridership from the railroads - but there was never anything more than...

I wonder when that policy previously changed to disallow the short trip. I recall taking the westbound LSL to Worcester in 2013 - at a fare comparable to commuter rail, rather than the 27-42 the article says it'll now cost.