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I thought the slope of the hill Broadway goes up in Everett, not to mention the fact that Broadway is realistically too narrow to do anything other than curb-side transit lanes -- and maybe too narrow to accommodate catenary? -- makes surface-running there a non-starter? And we all know what...

Sure, the Globe editors just showed how credulous they are when it comes to transit stuff: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/18/business/boston-transportation-innovation/ But they also just helped collect all the buzziest gadgetbahn ideas in one place so they can be efficiently dunked on...

Unfortunately, that's one of the new BEBs. They just haven't taken down the wires in the Seaport transitway, so it makes it look like a trolleybus.

Le Grand Boston Express, non?

It's kind of funny (if you're the sort of person who finds punctured pretensions funny) how the timber bumpers/barge guide things on either side of the main channel really spoil whatever "cool look" this architect was going for. They look way more out of place here than on something...

I'm no expert, but electrifying the Fairmount line in 18 months from a standing start sounds....extremely, extremely ambitious.

We were talking in the Crazy Pitches thread about 128-area circumferential transit and Burlington's big (4.4 million square feet of new development, 1,800 new housing units) in-process rezoning, and that made me start wondering: Since that Burlington rezoning appears pretty clearly premised on...

I like the idea! I suspect you're leaving out some important demand nodes by following the utility corridor past Cambridge Street/3A instead of trying to use parts of the 128 ROW, though -- the Cummings Tradecenter at the Woburn rotary (and its adjoining multifamily developments) and the...

In case anyone's curious, a pair of transit YouTubers did a review of the Cape Flyer and what it's like traveling around the Cape by public transit only once you get to Hyannis:

It's probably political/constituent demand. The Cape is really car-brained. A lot of the discussion around the region's tourism economy revolves around "how are people going to drive here" -- something that's intensified in recent years as house prices and rents have gotten so crazy that it's...

Maybe it's just because I haven't been by the garage in the last few weeks, but I was surprised this morning to see how much they've peeled back over the station area. Hard to tell from my photo, but the middle bay still has at least two floors that haven't been demo'd, while the southern bay is...

Right now, yes, but Medford's planning process has historically been fairly ad-hoc. If that were going to continue, and development along this corridor were to rely entirely on the good graces of the loudest voices in the local Facebook groups, as it were, I can understand the T's decision...

Agreed, but a lot of the current access problems are fixable with the kind of streetscape interventions a Columbus Ave-style rebuild would entail, and which the T couldn't propose at the time of BNRD without municipal buy-in -- which they already had from Somerville City Hall when it came to...

Since this big ol' thing is now in the works in Medford... ...it seems like it'd be a highly reasonable thing for Medford, Somerville, Cambridge and Everett to get together and lobby hard for an SL7 that goes up Mystic Ave. from either Kendall or Haymarket, presumably terminating in Medford...

I can't remember if it's in the original 1947 Metropolitan Transit Recess Commission report, or one of its follow-ups in subsequent years, but one idea they floated was a Mattapan Trolley-style setup at a then-future Alewife station with lines running north through Arlington and Lexington and...

Oh, the Danbury Line... Given how subpar it is compared to the rest of Metro-North, it's funny when you see the owners of the Merritt 7 office park praise the renovated train station as a vital amenity.

What if we sped the ferries up by separating them with walls from the other river traffic, so their wakes don't disrupt the other boats? Of course, at that point, you'd have to give them guiderails so the walls don't have to be too far apart. And maybe drain the water out to ensure good contact...

FWIW, it smells like the West Station momentum is driven by a desire to avoid "another Seaport" as Harvard builds that out into another big commercial growth node over the next few generations. And given how successful biotech developments have been in Watertown, it's not necessarily an...

That makes sense with the drawbridge! It already screws up SL3 service as-is, and until recently it was pretty much unthinkable that those oil tanks could ever become obsolete and the area upstream of the bridge might ever be removed from the DPA.

Speaking of the Urban Ring, has anyone ever seen a detailed brainstorm of how you'd actually connect an rail-based routing to the Blue Line without eating the Coughlin Bypass Road? If you're ever in and around Day Square when a tractor-trailer driver gets lost and tries to go that way vs. take...