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It feels like there should be better consensus on the order of projects in the advocacy community or even what projects. We don't even have consensus at to whether the grand junction in Cambridge should be urban ring or radial. Here are the projects (as I see them), and I'm going to rank them in...

Am I reading this wrong? I live in the Ball Square area and all of the speed bumps on Powderhouse Blvd and Morrison Ave have been wonderful for slowing cars down and even causing cars to go onto the main thoroughfares instead of incessant cutting through residential streets at top speeds. That...

Yeah, I was thinking of something akin to Back Bay with the underpass and I certainly don't think the express track should be lost, especially at the station where trains come on and off the line. I guess my follow up is, should this ever be revisited when the bridge needs replacing? Is it...

Is it worth it (or even possible) to rebuild Wellington platform north of itself? Given that the entrance is at the northern part of the station only (except for MBTA personnel), would it make sense to have that at the Southern entrance to the station and simply rebuild the platform connecting...

Do you have an updated fantasy map with this? Your Aqua line concept is not on your original fantasy map. On the other hand, I'm torn on this because I want Kendall to have more links via a true line but also that ROW through Cambridge is probably best for the ring so, should the Everett Line...

The implication here is that the map will never be cleared of this unless every station is ADA compliant? I see you asking about this on reddit, did you ever get a confirmation beyond that reply for the map contest submissions that isn't waiverable? I wonder if a regulation change would be...

Can I just say: Are we at a point where the non-accessibility should be labelled instead of the accessible? All that's left on the map is Boylston, Valley Road, Belmont, and Waverley. What is the point of flagging every station because 4 will not be. Even with the current map you'd just be...

This is incredible and, for my money, is the best version of the rapid transit and bus lines map that has ever existed. I liked the parks version too, but this is undeniably cleaner. My singular tiny nitpick: Revert the 96 south of Davis back to the Christmas version where it is closer to the...

Disabled Red line Train on the Alewife Crossovers. Northbound traffic is halted until the train is cleared. Did have a southbound train go out after the problem started though Edit: Tentative fix. Slow moving from Davis to Alewife instead of being stopped at the station.

My larger point was that the dance doesn't have a functional way to work once Red/Blue is implemented because the solution becomes to ignore the connection. That's why I said it was futile.

The Crimson is not the place to get this information; The Boston Globe is. The difference is that many urbanists, like yourself and including Mayor Wu, don't have any experience understanding the actual needs of rail transit. When they made this plan, that was also true of the MBTA. Phil Eng...

What is the issue here? It's currently a rail yard. Before it was a rail yard, it was a wetland. It has no historical precedent as being anything other than those two things. They are asking to keep some of it a rail yard, significantly less mind you, because it makes intercity rail functional...

The last statement isn't correct. Westbound Blue Line Riders may wish to go north or south given that the direct connection would be faster than making the transfer to a transfer. Hence why the whole thing is fraught. A simpler solution might be to have a scheduled departure time for all last...

It's not as clean, though, at 45 degrees as the 90 degrees. Harry Beck got around this with thinner lines compares to junction stations but ours are the same width (approximately) and by having only 2 on the original map out of all the junctions.

Then let's get bigger than that. Monica Tibbits-Nutt, the current Secretary of Transportation has time and time again argued for these principles from center running bus lanes, separated bike infrastructure, road narrowing, daylighting, tight turn radii, angle of approach, bus and train...

Not really. It sucks, but what they are really doing is trying to achieve it through the political means they have available to them. Better to have something, than nothing. It's like the piecemeal implementation of bike lanes. The people in charge of that plan absolutely know what is truly...

Good. We should be provisioning for intense use of the station and right of way. The Globe article goes into more detail about the politics of this decision and it appears to come from Eng and Amtrak. Wu and allies want such a layover to be in Widett where the MBTA recently acquired land, but...

The reality is that any Chelsea service should be on Broadway pretty much all the way to 60. It should not be on Route 1, Everett should get its own Transit up Broadway/99, but Chelsea is built around Broadway and that's where the subway should be. The only exception I see is that it might take...

Its supposed to be twice the passenger capacity of single type 7 or 8 in one and a half times the space. The original plan was to have the driver be sealed off and not collecting fares so a single operator could do it in theory if the front cab can control the doors for both vehicles although...

@KCasiglio and I were having a back and forth about Hartford Commuter Rail/Regional Rail to Norwich (and New London?) via Willimantic. @F-Line to Dudley has discussed it here and here with the North Manchester RoW being reactivated till the junction with the Vermont Central RoW down to New...