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Could be worse. First time I went out the Thruway, dear gods almost 40 years ago, the service area food service was operated by the state, not contracted out, and the food was about what you'd expect from a state highway department. =:-O

TransitMatters is advocating for a heavy-rail subway link across whatever replaces the Tobin, in order to bring better transit access to Chelsea. https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/where-is-chelseas-subway-station/

The article indicates they want to build full-high platforms to handle the increased passenger volume more efficiently.

Don't they already double-berth the trains? I recall reading somewhere, probably here, that they moved the block boundary to the middle of the platform so they could do that.

They could invest in some block heaters and bigger power drops (which they'd need for the heaters anyway).

It looks like it ought to be possible to site a combined station on the other side of the diamond, off Foundry St. There's still the platform issue, but that's what automatically-deploying bridge plates are for. But this Central Corridor plan in general does seem like kind of a train to nowhere...

I'd bet money that while he knew about the layover yard, he didn't know that the locomotives were going to idle all night. Which is not at all unreasonable. (Why do they do that anyway? It just seems stupid and wasteful.)

Not that I'm any kind of expert here, but I've never had the sense that that tunnel boring is the kind of enterprise that's ripe for the kind of disruptive innovation that Tesla and SpaceX achieved. (How much credit Musk deserves for those innovations is, of course, debatable.)

The Transit Costs Project has released their proposal for overhauling the NEC; among other things it calls for having all of the commuter agencies upgrade to EMUs. I'm sure that'll be a piece of cake. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2025/05/05/the-northeast-corridor-report-is-out/

This is fantastic! So is that from the MCRT bridge over the Fitchburg line in Weston to the BFRT crossing at West Concord? Be even more awesome if it extended to South Acton to connect to the ARRT.

Curtatone wanted to do pretty much exactly that a few years ago when it turned out to need a bunch of repairs.

Different project. See https://archboston.com/community/threads/roads-and-highways-general-development-thread.6872/post-500400

A pity the plan doesn't include fixing that ludicrous high-speed crossover between MVP eastbound and the ramp from Main St towards 93.

Pretty clearly they're trying to optimize for people coming out from Boston, so turning at South Acton makes sense.

You know what would be awesome? If the T and the Seastreak ferry service coordinated their schedules so that you could reasonably do a car-free day trip to Martha's Vineyard via New Bedford. Right now the ferry's summer Saturday morning schedule has a ferry leaving right when a train arrives...

All photo links broken.

Wow, that is literally scaffolding.

Just east of the bridge; it's a small tunnel. I remember seeing it on the plans.

The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Rte. 2 in Concord included a wildlife crossing under 2 as part of the project.

Probably because they know perfectly well the Late for Sure Limited is going to get to Worcester hours behind schedule after trundling 1000 miles from Chicago and they don't want people assuming otherwise.