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I can attest from local experience that narrowing lanes is probably a more politically palatable way to reduce speeds rather than speed bumps. DCR reworked Lynn Shore Drive a couple years ago. If you are not familiar, Lynn Shore Drive has both a lot of traffic and a lot of pedestrian...

Maybe, but if the line is split you add the issue that happens on the Red Line, where people waiting for the alternate branch train get in the way of smooth exiting and boarding. Many downtown platforms are really small -- it does not take much to slow down movement. Everyone on the platform...

I may be wrong about this, but I don't think 4.5 minutes is a headway limit for the new signaling. I think the 4.5 minute headway is more rolling-stock and operator limited. I believe the new signaling would allow for as tight as 3 minute headways, but you have to have enough rolling-stock and...

Grand Central and Penn NYC only service electric train sets. They are warmer because they are approached by long tunnels, but that is only possible with fully electric service. Cannot comment on how 30th Street and Union work to stay warmer. Diesel train sets require ventilation or you create...

Stopping air flow with a bunch of diesel locomotives running is probably not a great idea. Maybe after the CR is electrified.

With electrification moving forward, we really need to shift to a vehicle mile tax as well as a gas tax (keep the gas tax to incentivize electrification). Vehicle mile tax should perhaps be based on the weight of the vehicle (as is done with trucks) -- heavier vehicles do cause more wear and tear.

To drive car free living, you need more than transit -- you also need clusters of housing around neighborhood essential retail and services -- the 15 minute city design. In car free living, most of your "transit" needs to be walking. For the periods where I have lived car free, I have always...

I just want to point out that these are really not small or infill developments in Revere. This is a lot of housing!

I have to believe part of the delay in rehabbing Boylston is the T trying to figure out what, if anything, they are going to do with the Tremont Street tunnel extension to the Pleasant Street Portal. Any meaningful rehab is going to need to account for future uses of that tunnel, if any. That...

Whatever you do differently to make the connections to DTC, South Station and potentially Seaport, it needs to be done as much as possible in dedicated bus lane infrastructure that is enforced. One of the big failures of SL4 and SL5 is they get caught in traffic after Tufts Medical Center...

Boy, that is going to generate a lot of disappointment among first time visitors. "Look, a sleek modern Metro" -- then they encounter the Kendall platform :censored:

Today SL4 does layover/schedule correction at South Station at the Essex Street stop. Even without schedule correction it is a long dwell stop with everyone exiting then a large crowd from South Station boarding. That is not a very good location for a long dwell stop -- there are only travel...

Given traffic conditions I don't see how your South Station layover point is going to work, but sure it crayons. JFK Surface Road at Summer St is a perpetual traffic clusterf..k.

I am confused about the SL4 and SL5 consolidation in this map. With surface routing you cannot hit both DTC and South Station.

The Josiah Quincy Upper School in Chinatown (sited right beside the Pike) has a high filtration HVAC system that passed the sniff test of the CAFEH research group at Tufts Medical that study highway generated urban pollution.

The idea is that if the lot is not used for housing, that means less housing in Chinatown. Like all of Boston, Chinatown has a housing shortage, largely driven by the gobbling up of housing for highways and institutions (Tufts Medical Center) over decades. In effect the displacement has...

Good point. And the building 212 replaced was allowed to decay to the point that demolition was needed -- also supposedly prohibited in historic districts.

The two parking lot parcels (there are technically two lots there) are in the Bay Village Historic District. New construction is mandated to be limited in height to the adjacent parcels. The parcel to the south is a 2 story building. The parcel to the north is the Park Plaza Castle, nominally...

They completed this type of energy efficiency retrofitting in the other Castle Square buildings along Tremont Street about a decade ago. This is the only building in the sequence that did not get the treatment. I think they ran out of funding back then.

Off shore wind is more consistent than onshore wind, but there are still times when the wind dies down. And even if it does not go to zero output, it is variable. Battery banks are becoming increasingly common with the growth of wind and solar, nearly doubling every year in recent years. You...