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I guess so but they are around the corner where the foldable seats are so it's not in the view of the driver in the same way and you still can't necessarily get around the first payer. It literally looks like they installed the second reader that was intended for the rear door in the wrong spot...

Have any other bus riders noticed that both payment terminals are at the front of the bus while there are none at the back door? If this is change is supposed to facilitate all door boarding and payment then they’ve really botched it. Every bus I’ve been on so far has this issue.

Semi-disagree here: They should either use the New England Pine Tree or they should keep the one on the proposed design. The "should be able to be drawn by a child" rule is kind of making flags into the equivalent of trendy website design that will become incredibly dated. For example, I think...

The lighting bezels, the light gray/silver trim on the window instead of the charcoal, that center panel on the front, and the lack of the white paint accents are what I see as detractors. Even the gray body is also lighter on the mockup.

I don't know that all of them need to be separated, but the E line should be (D too if routed alone the Hunting Ave subway). This all does beg the question: what lines should be green? The part that arguably most lives up to the emerald necklace designation is the D line from Fenway to Brookline...

So a couple of things: Lexington is one of the good faith operators in the MBTA zoning. They are rezoning East Lexington (down the street from AH), Lexington Center, and Hartwell ave. If the urbanism movement is gaining steam, we should be trying to tie expansion to places of reasonable...

Okay, thank you. I don't agree with that myself. Lexington will not always be that away and setting up another Mattapan High Speed Line seems like a bad call given the political pushback on it's changeover shows that half-measures can become entrenched. That's what we're talking about though...

I'm out of touch on this: Why would we use RR frequency on a rapid transit line? Why would we single track the red line north of Alewife/Arlington Center?

You could argue the antecedent on this that the built form of Lexington and Arlington were centered on the gravity that the rail line provided and now everything we've done since has been a band-aid to get around its absence. That's the original resource and it connected the two cities to...

First off, Welcome @ehamwey it's good to have you here! Second, I combined these two responses for a reason. I've been away from the forum for a while due to having two kids under four so I am a bit out of touch with the pulse here; I don't really understand why this forum (overall) doesn't want...

Sure, shockingly is the wrong word but it is hypocritical to decry personal use infrastructure for thee but not for me on main thoroughfares and right of ways even if the empire of degrees is different. I agree with F-Line in terms of the layout. There are way too many roads connecting to...

In having these types of conversation online, it is shockingly frequent to see bicyclists defending their "turf" over bus and/or rail expansion. I had someone heap scorn on the idea of the red line to Arlington heights because of potential loss of or narrowing of the minuteman even though its...

Red line derailment at Park Street. Shuttle Bus service from Harvard to Broadway until further notice.

If it's going to be the make it or break it, I agree. Overall, having redundancy of connection to the airport and having that connection be grade separated is important. The Silver Line, at least to my eyes, is forever inferior to the Blue line for cross harbor access because it is integrated...

Isn't that already the user base though? They expect a heavy increase from functionally the only group that specifically depends on the T as their mode. I agree with @KCasiglio on this one being a stretch.

Came here for my undergrad in 2009 and never left. I was a long-time lurker here either due to being a genuine lurker or later by necessity when Briv was in absentia. I've lived in Cambridge, JP, Quincy, and Somerville before settling where I am now in South Medford. Given that I know that a...

A user on Reddit is claiming that the public meeting revealed that there will be no provision for future expansion of the blue line as part of the build. The claim is that the cut and cover tunnel is not able to be waterproofed to the necessity required for either expansion and a deep bore...

The problem here is that these two points converge into illogical thinking. The removal of a parking or driving lane means less room for cars and not using a car is seen as "out of touch with reality". So now, from their perspective, people out of touch with reality are going around and making...

The problem (from anecdotal experience, mind) is that the geometric argument also isn't readily accepted. While I've had more success in saying that, "Only 359 cyclists removes a mile of traffic (laid end to end with no spacing even) and 359 people in a city of 654,000/117,000/80,000/etc. is...

Though I know it's incredibly impractical to the point of unfeasible, I often wonder if the US should bring back narrow gauge for rail trail politics. If we can double track meter or 3ft gauge and still have trail width, is that worth it in the short term to over come the politics of losing the...