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In a bit of a throwback, I did see a delivery truck back up to a loading dock on Congress Street today at 8am, near Lucky's. It totally blocked the outbound lanes and part of the inbound lanes for several minutes while goods were unloaded. It was a bit of a reminder of how things used to be in...

Life is a circle. I worked in the seaport in 2004(ish), and had an office in World Trade Center West. I remember being able to see the filming of a rooftop scene or two from The Departed from my office window because there was nothing but parking lots in between. This fall, I started a new...

Denied by STB: https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/DCMS_External_PROD/1670863978570/51395.pdf Also, an STB version of a smackdown regarding claims of interest in freight service.

I'm a daily Lowell Line rider and the 75+% of pre-COVID feels pretty right to me. Every row has people in the seats, with many doubles holding two, and all triples holding at least 2. Only a few of the triples are fully occupied. Pre-COVID, I'd estimate all of the doubles would be full and...

If only they had a human available to create the voice announcements. ;)

There are two efforts underway to impact the use of the Central Mass corridor. Protect Sudbury made an attempt to force the STB to determine the status of the corridor as having discontinued service vs. being abandoned so that they could claim that using the corridor for a trail and/or...

My new daily commute takes me past this building and I think it's one sharp looking addition to the skyline. It's impressive from all angles and a great "statement" building for State Street.

I spent many years living near the Esplanade (it's where my son learned to ride!) and biking from place to place. Even when doing a long ride, such as from downtown to Concord and back, I'm content to go at a speed dictated by conditions. In some places that means cruising in top gear, and...

While this eliminates a route that I personally used frequently (Brookline/Fenway to Back Bay via Commonwealth), I can see the logic, though I wonder how it'll perform on days when Kenmore Square is busy/crowded since Commonwealth and Boylston were the most common west to east routes in that...

I know it's apples and oranges, but as a semi-regular rider of that trail on my hybrid bike, I'd much rather see effort put into connecting it to the Freeman trail. A big part of the "fun" of the Reformatory Branch trail is that it's both unpaved and not a technically or physically challenging...

When this happens in the future, the MBTA will need portable exit gates so people evacuating the trains can have their passes properly scanned.

These situations happen in quite a few places. My personal take is that they're not wide enough to "officially" be marked as two lanes, but operate more efficiently as two lane roads, so the powers that be just let it slide.

My crazy version of this extends the western end to Riverside along the CR tracks and eliminating the CR stops in that section. I doubt the ROW supports that, hence crazy. Slightly less crazy is connecting the eastern end to both Lechmere AND Sullivan. That's packing a lot into one space, but...

I'm not sure that this is a bad thing. Having ridden buses into and out of Alewife to the NW suburbs, the final 0.5 miles into/and out of the station can take over 30 minutes. When I lived in East Arlington, taking the 77 to/from Porter was generally much faster than the 350 or 79 to Alewife...

So many interesting things in this proposal. Way too much to comprehend, even, so I like to look at it through the lens of my commutes of the past 20+ years, most of which were done without a car. Downtown (55) I'm one of those brave souls that boarded the 55 bus between Hynes and Park Street...

The Hall itself is open to 11, but nearly everything in it closes well before then.

Does anyone know why the eateries in the "Hub Hall" close so early? The only thing open after 9:50 or so seems to be Mike's Pastry and the wine bar. As a regular attendee of Celtics games who often has to wait for a train home, I'd love to be able to grab something to eat after a game, but all...

In the 1946 USGS top map, you can see the spur and small yard.

There's no hard deadline for G&W to be ready by 6/1. ST will operate the line until G&W is ready.

As a former downtown resident, I don't find driving downtown to be particularly stressful. You need a mental map of where you're going and need to just accept that for many parts of the day, you're probably going to be sitting in traffic. You gotta just go with it. That said, I much prefer...