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I appreciate the likes, but if none of us actually knows, then I think we should be trying to get someone. Can the State Rep answer? Can we get Transit Matters to inquire (some of us are active members, right?)? Do anyone know a reporter who can email the LBattiston email at the bottom of the...

Posting reddit because I'm not going to remake the twitter post myself. Rep. William Straus is now suggesting the FTA take over the whole thing. I'll be honestly I don't really follow the guy, but I do remember the last time I saw his name on this board, he was called a gaslighter with a...

I don’t think you have to from Missouri to be cynical enough that you only believe it if you actually see it

Okay, wire installed incorrectly have been answered several times now. Can anyone give a more-than-speculative answer to why the fix is only going to be 25 mph? Hell, we are gaslighting ourselves as several commented 25 mph was the design. I’m glad EDE remembers the technical docs.

I disagree. I'm pretty sure they literally locked the decision sometime yesterday or even this morning. It would have meant not announcing the Orange Line shutdown until today. With so little time, every day counts for everyone to prepare - both passengers and various authorities like the Mayor...

What's the over/under everything just become a bus?

By spending $37 million dollars and hire a whole company - Yankee Line.

Btw, today is the Somerville Planning Board Meeting. Including the hearing for the lab is on the agenda. It starts at 6 PM. It is virtual. https://www.somervillema.gov/events/2022/08/04/planning-board-meeting

I noticed that too. If you go back to Sneijder's post back on July 12, the linked MBTA Tweet announced they replaced 500 ft of tracks - FTA mandated tracks, but 500 ft and thus lifted the speed limit back to 25 mph and will be 40 mph "once completed" Our subsequent comments back then that it...

That meeting was petty short. They presented these main points The bus contract A response to a comment that pass holders can use the commuter rail within zone 1A and zone 2 A follow-up question to look into a solution to fare-only users which Poftak says he'll look with but says he think the...

Do you like, only follow this thread or something, Javon? You are aware there’s a general MBTA thread (which everyone else been lamenting in it) and others have informed you before, right?

Not sure if you're just trying to lighten the mood or trying to meme away the increasing recognition in the debacle of the conflict between Scott and Baker that Scott is looking increasingly prescient and Baker has failed (or you can't say his policy look like he did any real good) to the 7...

A 30-day shutdown. The justification is to make a massive dent in the deferred maintenance backlog with the lynchpin to be completing the tasklist of the FTA mandates. There's two contradictory interpretations of this: The more generous interpretation is this is "real" rip-the-band-aid. For...

I have to say that's speculative. Isn't the typical stereotype of the community meeting with 80 year old senior citizens is they are against absolutely any development? Though your likely rebuttal is this the one case that's different because killing off bars is desirable than development, it's...

I am annoyed at this piece of info - https://digboston.com/davis-square-developer-plans-lab-space-as-small-businesses-await-unknown-fate/ Particularly at this quote On the Davis SQ FB, I would describe it as outright hostile (and it is notable I think Davis Sq FB group is more supportive for...

It is risk of sterilization of the streets is not from the façade or uniformity of the storefronts, it's rents. All the nicest façade and greatest pain for preserving storefronts does not help when the biggest factor why the most likable businesses exists in a sweet spot of rent prices...

I'm not sure that's the lesson. By that lesson, the Zakim bridge was a mistake as its design was also unnecessary for its purpose. And was a bunch of other bridges that used novel designs at the time it was built. Granted this is just a local bridge and not a cornerstone of a massive project, a...

In theory, the capital projects should provide some relief. Like the Orange Line fire wouldn't have happened if the New Orange Line Trains already arrived. Also events like like repeated runaway Red Line trains. Of course, without a competent/capable/able Operations, the best case is we'll...

To post more MBTA news that have recently developed but I don't see any post here. First, it seems more repurcussion of the Orange Line Train Fire debacle has pulled in the lawyers that we've see on a bunch of billboards - including on the Orange Line at some point...

If a turnaround is dependent on state politics and there's no "rock bottom" where dysfunction finally forces action or somehow a system can't decline past, then I think logic says the only place we can go is ultimately collapse. As in train line is shut down, train can't run, tunnel is closed...