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I imagine the exchange building is probably safe, pending the fiscal state of Lesley itself - the bonus height for retaining historic buildings would come in very handy. Lesley sold the lots across the street in November to Just A Start, the affordable housing folks behind the under...

Out of curiosity, is it know what is stopping Amtrak from taking advantage of the same signal improvements? A stopping service really shouldn't be beating Acelas or even Regionals.

I mean... The city of Cambridge is very actively working on that, at least from a planning and zoning side. It's a little funky - the left (West) side of white is Cambridge and the other side north of White St Pl is Somerville. At least on the Cambridge side, their final Mass Ave Planning study...

Well, based on a hunch I can tell you which architect it'll have been - Khalsa Design; It's not got a project page yet, but they put a pin on 14 White St Pl on their project map. https://kdiarch.com/projects/ They're doing a significant portion of the smaller developments around here, being...

Correct, but what I was trying to say is that it'll take a while, and we have no clue if that design includes LCD screens - the design doesn't exist yet, and the T is some distance away from actually installing anything; Design-bid-build just takes time.

No details right now, but I'd advise patience. It is currently described as "a project to complete 100% systemwide PS&E for MBTA’s PADIS (Public Address and Digital Info System) toward the replacement of all 500+ overhead orange dot-matrix LED screens in 96 stations, plus accompanying PA audio,"...

This particular line item was discussed in the general MBTA thread starting here: http://archboston.com/community/threads/general-mbta-topics-multi-modal-budget-massdot.971/post-498740 There's a bit of debate about what this actually is going to look like, so I'm waiting to see the RFP.

It absolutely connected to the Union freight, but I suspect this track might technically have belonged to the New Haven; it connected their freight yards / seaport freight terminals to the Union Freight RR.

I will point out that there is some substantial inconsistency in the numbers and dates being reported in the docs. The briefing slides and some Massport docs say $800M, 900k sq, complete in 2030 while the RFQ docs from the same procurement and announced CM contract say its $450M, 725k sqft and...

They're from one of the contracting documents posted to BidExpress, the pre-bid briefing. I believe the link is behind a login, but it's obstensibly public. https://www.bidexpress.com/solicitations/36871

So I have a friend who's a captain at one of the legacy carriers - it's less overflow, more contractually required. Their union contracts tend to specify that for an overnight exceeding a certain length (I seem to recall 14 hours), they were to be booked in a hotel in the CBD of the major city...

Also owned by a single tenant-owned group, RTH, including the Mission Park towers and townhomes after much community organizing. Those homes were previously owned by HMS as part of their expansion plans until voraciously opposed. While I appreciate their mission, I've also previously posted that...

A couple of new renders of the proposed terminal E garage, now the North Garage to go with The extant Central & West garages from the contracting documents. 10 stories, 4-5000 spaces, 900k sqft. Contracts envision a 2030 completion. Also new renders of permanent Danvers Logan Express...

Apparently, part of the reason they're rushing the BL flood doors is that flooding here has the potential to also knock out the Orange Line. Also, as part of this they're also decommissioning the OCS at Airport & extending the 3rd rail one stop to Wood Island, making that the new changeover point.

You're not wrong regarding the short gap in the discontinuous electrification plan being illogical, but I would point out that the 2022 Network Rail analysis of just the Providence/Stoughton Lines indicated that running on OCS would require an infill substation in Roxbury, let alone electrifying...

I mean, they're not proposing a new one - there's already an Orange (and Green) Line substation in the North Station basement. Unless I'm very mistaken, it's even fairly new - it was rebuilt as part of the 2004 superstation. This diagram predates that, but is likely still largely accurate -...

So here's the thing: as far as I can tell, they never actually published actual plans for getting from the Boylston Incline to the 1913 PO Square route, very possibly because this was the "simple" segment - in all likelihood, that segment of tunnel they were already planning on building - just...

I believe the 2nd Ave phase 1 stations were cut & cover rather than mined, meaning maximum interface with under street utilities. For our hypothetical tunnel, I'd actually probably say accept the disruption and launch our TBM by Boylston; if you're going to dig a pit, you might as well only do...

To be fair... Part of the housing crisis is because it's so hard to get rid of anything that's already there. It's more pressing in Metro Boston, but we need to be ok with replacing buildings - most aren't really worth saving. There are of course exceptions to that, but While these were nice...

And the Borealis is completely bustituted. My understanding is that the Amtrak Horizons never got anything along the lines of a midlife overhaul; but perhaps an opportunity for the T to earn some national goodwill? They won't be comfy, but I think we're probably the only major operator with a...