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If he's doing hyperbole for rhetoric, then he can clarify that himself. My reading, and the responses he has made, that he just outright connects a logic that since the rich uses airlines, then it must mean the FAA gives a lower bar to safety. And if so, despite the recent debacles, I have to be...

Different transit modes does matter. If you're saying the MBTA should have the same safety standards as cars, then you're accepting a x20 casualty rate at least. But failures in mass transit mean mass casualty events, not individual tragedies. Accepting that a mass casualty event will occur and...

Are you just ignoring statistical data for your gut beliefs? Saying "half dozen near Tenerife-style disasters" doesn't change aircraft has the lowest accident and fatality rate of any of the major modes. A glitch in the tracking system caused the US to shut all plane travel for the entire...

All of this is extremely frustrating, but what are you trying to advocate in your quips? Do you seriously view the solution to this situation is let just lower the safety standards? Do you also advocate the FRA to lower Amtrak standards? Or the FAA lower their safety standards to planes? This...

It is notable that in a different universe, this matter would be moot because there should never be a +20 minute wait for the next train during operational hours - ever. But yeah, we're not in that universe and given things like estimated time just to restore the slow-zoned Blue Line that...

Magoun Sq. Outbound is +20 mins. I watch an elderly lady bulk to once she saw it. Fortunately I’m going in but going home might be a trip. I have heard the mbta not able to give accurate gauges for inbound trains from terminal and near terminal stations, but.. yeah

I could be misremembering it. I'm the type that tries really hard to make sure my memory is corroborated with some kind of evidence but right now my attempt to verify seems to go against this memory... but that preface said... I think I used it organically. Back in the mid-2000s, I was still a...

This is only a guess too, but my light understanding does recall FRA have stronger perceived and actual regulatory power so it's possible better practices and effort has been done for commuter rail than the subway. This doesn't mean there's not any regulation, as the MBTA has been experiencing...

Meanwhile in the most pressing news. The Globe continues to cover the crisis we're in. The closest we have for a reaction from the governor direct related to this is her spokesperson saying that "information from the investigation into what caused the systemwide slow down will be shared with the...

There's an odd spot in Porter Station that have I feel would be a cute spot for a ramen shop. Porter sq is kinda a loci for Japanese food which would make it extra fitting. I tried to look up the spot and apparently it used to host some shop called "Cold & Hot" per this Boston.com article plus...

I pretty sure nobody hates REI, more of combination of the business and the building together. If it was a café, bar, or neighborhood-oriented retail - it would help cancel out the underuse of land. If the building was bigger but still only host REI, then at least it's making the most of the...

A true point, but it doesn't change how much it sucked. It's one thing to have to deal with some slow zones or buses on part of the trip, my friends and I have all became pretty adept at adjusting to that. But as one of my friends said "Figuring out the T today harder than any puzzle boda Borg...

I don't know what to say if we are actually witnessing a death of the an entire system, but I think we can say without contest that it keeps going in that direction. You kinda have to start to wondering how much more dysfunction can it go before it's just not functional anymore. One would assume...

So pages covered this, but it is notable that today the MBTA has started tearing down the Milton Station staircase. Gov Healey apparently had a moment to intervene but she gave the green light. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/03/06/milton-mbta-demolishing-staircase/ It seems...

Perhaps that's true nationally, but in the local context of Nubian, doesn't the community groups representing the area constantly grip of getting gipped of what they were promised? So barring all the visible chagrin from Nubian groups are mistaken, just saying the locals will start to oppose LRT...

Yeah... I think that over time people are going to totally ignore validation. It's to shrink to a very honest subpopulation but rest essentially treat "inbound is free". Thinking about it, I hope nobody notices it as I can just imagine certain actors will try to use the data to say transit has...

Siemens is German

That's actually the question. Can the project be saved? Maybe that question cannot be answered by any of us, but going by our general knowledge and the way everything been presented by the latest reports, it looks like a more realistic outcome than any of us like to consider. It's been floating...

So here's a question - can failures of process without design flaws reach that point for the "lemon" label? Because it does look like it's very possible that design-wise, the CRRC trains are fine. But the newest reports is starting to sound like the core issue could be CRRC has checked out. Not...

Is the data via TransitHistory or is there other sources? The last wave of media coverage in regards to CRRC deliveries seem to be all roughly around end of September. Those articles reported it was suppose be done 1 year ago, all 152 carbodies has been made, and new project target is Summer...