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I think the people who are speculating the heavy rail spur is imaging the spur goes beyond the stadium area but into the areas that should have heavy rail. I mean ones who are making maps and list out speculative stations are listing stations more than just Encore/Stadium.

Talking about MBTA GMs is making me think about to the GMs we had in the past - particularly the ones that was active while this forum been existing and thus we commentated and discussed about them. Ordered by Most Recent (interim omitted) Steve Poftak Luis Ramírez Beverly Scott Rich Davey...

I believe the Orange line has only 1 train driver per train. Over a decade ago there used to be 2 but it was redundant long before then. 1 person evacuating hundred of passengers is going to have a delayed response. It's not like there's place to stand on a platform to give directions. This is...

My typical understanding is systems under active investigation usually try to show their best side. Yet here we are, the train is on fire in the most visible and dramatic possible fashion. I'm guessing this is an incident that having the new trains come in would resolve it. But the old trains...

A major reason why some cites like Hong Kong is able to run, but also run profitably is air rights. As long the MBTA gets a good cut, this would be a good way for the MBTA to get some sorely needed fund. Though why does it feel like the MBTA is dragging its feet to this possible source of money...

I don't have any answer about Yaboo Fence. But here some photos of some late night rail work. Hopefully it's final stretch stuff.

Personally, I really like Sam Adams Field because it actually sounds like we named the field after the our local Founding Father rather than the modern norm of corporate advertisement. If naming rights is going to be sold, I hope Sam Adams bids.

If we analyze something like this Youtube video of a tourist recording the Silver Line from South Station to Chelsea, the result is very mixed. South Station -> Courthouse -> World Trade Center I would say this is Rapid Transit standard. It is full-on underground tunneling World Trade...

I think he's referring to the safety report that is noted in articles like this - https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/12/09/mbta-safety-report/ Though a big difference is the article states the request is less meetings or reduce the burden in making the reports. I guess removing...

If a BRT bridge actually happens, it would be pretty crazy to mind my mind. I mean it essentially recreates the ROW the old orange lines uses. To someone from the 1970s, it could be mistaken as a continuity but we seem to barely remember it existed (especially compared to how much we do remember...

To semi-answer this to myself (I don't know where else to post this - previous discussion about the Orange Line Everett Station are scattered with the most notable was in the Encore Thread). But also to bring out the discussion on "why is this decades for planning and implementing" (unless you...

The opposite is Gillette Stadium. At least it's possible an Everett stadium lack of urbanity and transit can be solved by building the infrastructure and knit connections to Charlestown and commercial-residential Everett. No amount of effort or money can make Gillette become part of any urban...

Everett north of Rt. 16 isn't a dump. It's a working class city but if you go around the business or residential area that is largely north of Rt. 16, you will struggle to find dilapidated homes or vacant storefronts. It's not full of glamourous shops, but thriving small businesses, a few gems...

Maybe the articles are just copying each other, but a lot of the news articles are really emphasizing the " Without floor debate or public input, lawmakers added language to a wide-ranging, multibillion-dollar economic development" To me, that gives an automatic red flag that "that is bad"...

I remember news articles where media look at how much lobbying money congressional members took to sell us out on things like Net Neutrality or Data Privacy and it was apparently around the cost of a new middle class sedan. Of course, this probably simplifies things too much but if there's any...

You know a depressing thought? Transit Matters been screaming about it (or at least we have the dashboard and thus putting it on blast) and this show it did nothing. It took the Fed explicitly giving orders to make the MBTA fix it. This is not to say to give up on advocacy or to attack...

And that's why it was so frustrating that it was tore down. It was owned by the city. Generally everyone involved expressed they wanted to see the building renovated, maybe when set it up to be used by GLX in someway. But despite "everyone" is in agreement, that the city owns the building so...

The building was found structurally unsound. I think somewhere in this thread's many pages that as mentioned or maybe it was in the Somerville Development Thread or both. But Googling again, I am still able to find this article that mentions it and this one on preservation (but I have to say...

The thing I can't reconcile is how since the winter of 2015 that there been so much noise including the Building a Better T program with its metrics, the long track work shut downs, the signal upgrades, and old weekend shutdowns - all in the name of "Transforming the T", yet somehow we still...

Theoretically, yes. But realistically that's not on the table. Unless some site is identified and an offer is actually on the table, a self-storage site that remains transit accessible but not on so prime of land as being next to the station is not on the table. The reality is either the Uhaul...