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So that's Zone 1A map? Where did the map come from? Regardless, I have today Brookline (and a lesser extent Newton) really throws a wrench in what should be a circle from the center aside from natural barriers.

Brah, think about what? Frankly, you just made a bunch of sentences that individually are not wrong, but it just does not connect in any coherent manner to make any insightful or meaningful point. ----- Also to respond when you replied with that link. It's the same article as the one linked...

Given the basis of common knowledge pieces of information of labor shortages, supply shipment bottlenecks, and CRRC being a Chinese company means an very reasonable guess most parts are being shipped in from China - one can make some reasonable but ultimately speculative theories. Being a poster...

How long does the Environmental doc and 30% design stays valid before you have to do it again to start? Even we only talk about projects in terms of the MBTA doing 1-2 expansions at a time. But then that means GLX2 won't start until after 2030 because somehow Red-Blue will take +8 years (reasons...

I vaguely recall they said Route 16 was cut to make sure there's enough money to complete the other portions of GLX but if they don't need it then they would continue GLX to Route 16 (along with returning money Cambridge and Somerville offered - which I do know that happened). But I can't find a...

Somerville pledged to give GLX $50 million dollars when the project was looking at death's door pre-value engineering (which media and state never made any noise about). Which 2nd start of the project that it was able to stay within budget and thus allowing GLX to return a combined $28 million...

Yeah, this is not useful discussion. This is needless snark. This is ultimately an internet forum where we generally have no influence, but concepts and ideas still matter - technical, design, engineering, policy, and even philosophical. Screaming Texas and screaming people just go ride a bike...

This is ultimately an engineering problem. Just looking at bike trails and community paths all over the state shows we can't just expect people to walk on the right and etc. Even if people do do that, just he discomfort some will feel of a bike riding by at decent clips will feel discouraged...

Nobody's going to be persuaded, but I want to note that I find Brattle Loop's point reasonable and the rebuttal that gridlocking intersections is a good thing is just reflexive. There are tradeoffs and people trying to drive are still people and if thousands of people's commute are doubled, that...

I don't know if they so silo-ed but I think it's reasonable to speculate there different gears going on. Frank retired from the MBTA years ago now, so it's not like people would remember just by seeing him in the office. Someone has to deliberately remember and contact him to bring him in. But...

Checking the page you linked and scrolling back, I don't see a press release to the announcing the date of the opening of Union Square, just the announcement on the day of it. I don't know really what's normal practice of press releases though.

It's probably obvious to say this, but it seems the MBTA pulled all resources to fix all the slow zones on the Orange Line, but at the cost of a skeleton crew at best to maintain the rails at the Red Line. Assuming the Orange Line has truly reach 0 slow zones, then I wonder if keeping it down...

The original name of this thread was something like "Green Line to Medford/Somerville will open in 2011" or something like that. It's unfortunate this project lost so much time. It would have been nice if this thread reached its conclusion by its original name. It took so long we have to...

.... Bakgwailo is saying the delays are slowly going down. The train is getting faster. I will leave a caveat that I might be miscomprehending you where your emoji emote outrage is about that the Orange Line should have recover to this point months ago post-shutdown. But I'm pretty sure...

So I decided to go for a bike ride along GLX. From Tufts to East Somerville and back. I took roughly 43 photos. That might be too much to share by directly posting on forum (if at all). So I'm sharing it via Google Drive and posting directly a few chosen photos with written commentary on the...

NGL, it feels like conspiratorial to wonder about this, but it seems so off that it start to attracts thoughts "is this salt-the-earth type of action?" - actively and deliberately trying to break the T as much as possible before the next admin comes in. Trying to effect long-term kneecapping by...

Anyone knows how to find more solid data? Did trains used to run at 55 mph at some spots or was it just design for it? And while I do personally recall 40 mph at the portal between Community College and North Station, the more official the document, the stronger we can clearly argue about it (as...

Oh boy, imagine every last hole filled and properly landscape, construction fence packed up, every tool is gone, even the plastic wrapping peeled off. No sign of construction left, 100% complete no matter what angle you look at it - not even adjacent construction and final detailing like at...

Well if you want a downer, I haven't seen test trains in a while. That is a concerning sign. I don't know at all on this aspect, I'm just remembering a line somewhere saying about the Union Sq branch testing works - That they need to test and it's a minimum of 1 month assuming no issues were...

I’m not sure Poftak saying that is a sign that the MBTA lacks a shared internal definition… or Poftak just trying to gaslight and deflect by trying to redefine what is a slow zone.