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These are the populations and densities of the census tracts in and around the project area: From the 2010 population data so it's probably gone up a bit. The fact that the tract including all of the Allston-Cambridge exit, Beacon Park Yard, and yet unbuilt Harvard developments still has a...

It appears copying my table for the zone changes actually moved around things to different cells and I didn't notice at first. I tried to ensure no zones were skipped. Also any station I did not list is because I wouldn't change its current zone. This is what it should be as screenshot from my...

There seriously needs to be some sort of secure bike storage at Boston Landing ASAP. Bikes and parts are constantly stolen there (my whole bike was) and the bolts securing the racks to the ground have been removed for months. Thieves have been simply tipping over the rack and removing bikes...

This is for the Regional Rail fare structuring discussion in the SCR thread but should probably go here: I did a bit of a draft Regional Rail fare restructuring a while back prompted by SCR and Fall River/New Bedford potential pricing and came up with this: One Way Monthly 1a 2.4 75 1...

Orange Line up to 15 trains running peak service

It'd be neat to see some Toronto area style residential high rise TOD around the West Station site. A new node of very high density could be well-supported by the existing amenities like restaurants, groceries, and entertainment, combined with the station. There's currently a 6 story...

Boston Landing's first steps away from an industrial area to a residential area were shaky with mostly limited commercial and office venues and a single large new residential build that's half parking garage, but going east down along the pike there's a bunch of residential apartment buildings...

Natick Center slowly coming together

Service is currently slow zone limited not staff limited hence frequency increases coming to everything but Orange (equipment shortage). Once the slow zone situation is sufficiently mitigated then Red Line equipment and motorpersons/overall dispatchers, which I think is mostly resolved, come...

What I understand from the WGBH Big Dig podcast is that a MA state "authority" like the MBTA is in a position as a pseudo-private company whilst being state owned so that it can operate as a theoretically/potentially for-profit business (like the Port Authority) whilst still receiving continual...

Yeah Beacon, Washington, and Harvard Ave all need protected or separated lanes as well. I need to go between Brighton at the outer end of Comm Ave and Ruggles everyday and Washington St to Huntington is so unpleasant and the drivers are ridiculous. I now take Comm Ave down to Essex and then back...

Boston currently suffers from a serious shortcoming in that there is not a single protected bike route to go between the Charles Esplanades-Comm Ave-Emerald Necklace-SW Corridor Park. Mass Ave would mostly only require swapping some street parking and the bike lane to be protected along most of...

The reason for slight bus service decreases and trip time shifts is a combination of schedule “reliability” and reprioritization of resources. For schedule reliability: without dedicated infrastructure for buses to avoid car traffic bunching is inevitable. The MBTA’s way of combating this is...

New Worcester Union Station platform up and very well-lit

http://www.bostonplans.org/projects/development-projects/36-40-sprague-street This project is officially under construction with the land cleared and most of the foundation poured. I didn’t take pictures today cause I didn’t know what it was but I’ll update with pictures since I commute...

I think we have a problem with shying away from transit routes that aren’t expected to have the greatest ridership or duplicate another service in start and end point, which is a contributing factor to why Green Line problems are so crippling to transportation in the city. The waterfront could...

Could have an additional bus route or two run like the 43 does as a straight shot to downtown from Kenmore and/or Back Bay. The problem is all the one-ways aren’t very conducive to this. Beacon could do a contraflow bus lane east of Mass Ave or something. If Storrow was a grade-level boulevard...

Yep, right on the Reservoir Rd corner.

Just got an announcement on a bus “Beginning March 1st, bus fareboxes will no longer administer change.” I thought the bus ones haven’t administered any change in years? Potential sign of very near future AFC 2.0 as well?

Not sure if someone has mentioned already but all the construction activity at the former Beacon Park Yard was to reopen a temporary transfer facility for the removal of the contaminated soil from over 100 years of freight operation and 70 years of heavy automobile traffic in preparation for the...