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I'm have to voice that I see the logic of fattony's devil advocacy. It's a paradox - low-land value, but useful venues should be transit accessible, but being transit accessible makes it too valuable to such type of venues. Anything near any station is a case for a dense, urban transit oriented...

I can be proven wrong by going back to the thread's old pages, but I swear we already had the same conversation with the same active members involved reminding each other how the bidding process worked before the last time or maybe the time before the last time all the trains got pulled.

Such a nice day in April

I took the train back on Thursday. I actually took the train for to commute to my company office for the first time since last fall. I also noticed it was slow and the stop signs bothers me. I told myself during the ride that it was teething stuff -and the stop sign is because it's the...

This counterpoint is my largest concern to ripping band-aids. If given a choice, I virtually always pick ripping band-aids to do it right once rather than repeated half-measures. But the guiding principle is the reward is we don't have to deal with constant painful half-measures. A one time...

If 300 people found it useful and also did a net good that a good portion didn't drive deeper into Boston, I say Lechmere could have used a parking garage to replace that. Though one father out also makes sense on the same principle - though the one that probably makes the most sense is the...

And it being on the ground level is, honestly, notable too. Call me fat, because I am, but I hate stairs. Sure, it has elevators, but no way it has the capacity to make up for the escalator. Regardless of my own preferences, I believe that "minimizing friction" is an important ideal. Every...

As we approach Union Sq opening and that other branch is approaching. I need a refresher on some trailing questions. What's the status on Route 16? I remember it will be in a "future phase" after the current ones are done. But now that are we getting really close to the finish line, there...

Meanwhile other transit agencies somehow have the type of people that are doing things like bringing back ETBs.... I have to wonder if the same type of people is going to somehow remain the same while every other transit agencies are getting such type of people. And if it political...

I have to say if the ultimate goal is "Diesel Forever" by making ETB super painful to ever revive and cause BEB to fail so hard that there's no local interest to ever try again. It's really dumb as it really depend on the vast majority of other major transit system to mostly stay on diesel...

It's also worth noting that even if politics actually change. We're gonna get NIMBYs arguing about "how wires are so ugly" and "it going to block the sky". While technically that's not falsehoods, the frustrating thing is status quo is a lot of the real drive. It's been our ally and part of why...

Welp, we have the result. For all the political power Cambridge/Belmont/Watertown has (or at least the first two reputationally), the state used the road reconstruction projects to silence them. Honestly, if I was the political class of the two cities, I would have just kept the road in the...

While I know the photo is ceremonial, but it looks so dumb to me. Ribbon cutting is also ceremonial but it theoretically can act as a declaration when a project is "done done" But the ground breaking just looks like a mess for others to clean up. Considering the ceremony likely started from a...

Then I hope they do something real soon then. Else they have either collectively changed their mind (it's not like they got voted out the past year) or their favor was just empty words. The proof is if we'll see any public statement, legal challenges, or change of policy in the next few weeks...

So the next question is there any pushback left? Anything we can do about it? I know TransitMatters has been advocating to not do this. And I remember reading reasoning that the reason why the MBTA kept using trolleybuses is 1. The lower busway and 2. Belmont and Cambridge would not accept and...

I don't know how to put it into words that encapsulate this right. I guess the closest way to say it is that it is not surprising, but it kinda is. I guess the reason of this odd felling is past dumb decisions on this level feels like a different era or at least a different generation. Like...

I hope you all don't mind, but can anyone give any context? Goddamn, there's a 7 year gap between the last wave of posts and the latest ones now. And even the 2014 batch was a small wave - most of the chatter from 2011 and 2012. - Is the newest development a new start or a long "brew" from the...

The video literally came out 34 minutes ago. For a passionate transit type dude, I have to say I share nothing in common with him. After growing up with the T for years, I hold no love for the 1200s. I want to see an MBTA that runs clean, fast, and timely. I'm so tired of seeing rust on the...

https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/road-diet-proposed-for-soldiers-field-road/ DCR is proposing taking out a lane in Soldier Field Rd and replacing it with a bike lane.

You just paradoxically said you're not equating a speech act with murder yet equate the expression of their opinion as an equation to murder.