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I think skateboarding isn't a big deal. A speed bump has it's own hazard and aesthetically unpleasing too. Though I will state for the record that saying "your generation" push the discussion away from the merits of being worried about skateboarders into calling people of the board complicity...

Sadly, 2021 shows not just getting the positive, not just neutral, but just today Baker is defending himself by repeatedly saying to the press conference the MBTA "is safe" multiple times like broken record. Even if some of the incidences is actually bad luck, we can sadly say 2021 is not the...

So the recent wave of news is sadly tells me that even if we can point out improvements are coming, 2021 is not the year our collective perceptions will seriously shift. Even if the recent events was just bad luck, that the new red line trains will start coming in force soon that will prevent...

I'm repeating everyone, but I have to still chime in that even if regular people don't know and don't really care about trainsets, people do still feel and thus can sense when something is more enjoyable or not. Seeing and riding new and shiny trains does have a value in the rider. Seeing...

So it's August now. I have to ask, the newest news article I can find was June 7, the incident itself was back in March. Is there any rumors? Idea on how the investigation works that gives us any guestimate how much longer? Is this starting to reach a point we should start getting worried?

To my knowledge, there's "SkyscraperCity" and kinda Railroad.net (talks about trains, but it veers a lot in urbanism discussions - Though the Boston moderator works hard to keep the topic to trains only). Funny thing about SkyscraperCity is (IRRC) Archboston is the Boston forum of...

FYI, in the Globe Comments section, there's a guy exasperated at the "9 years" to get the trains. The respondents only explain to the that it's another example of government red tape - citing endless government "studies". I know newspapers comment sections of dumpster fires, but I do believe...

Anyone want to give an idea here of what is the resistance towards the connector? I can imagine reasons: NIMBY-ism, ideology, or budget constraints. But none of that explains it because the GM doesn't live next to the construction zone, probably doesn't operate on some secret kill transit...

To remind everyone, before Uber and Lyft first arrived in Boston, people my age (so Millennials in a time when Millennial was still the "youngest" demographic versus "Gen Z" now) did not use taxis. It was just too expensive while also too inconvenient to access. It was a last resort, as in like...

These are questions I hope we can get an answer. If the answers really are like "we're only working 16 a weekend" or "it cost too much to truck in floating slabs and do it Fast-14 style", then we finally (to my knowledge) have something tangible "answer". I have seen plenty of calls for increase...

So lurking around, I found this guy who seem to did some back-of-the-napkin math. If this guy is right, we'll need 5-6 years of weekend downtown shutdowns. Is this what we're looking at? Shutting down whole weekends in the Downtown core to replace ~300'-~500' feet of track against 58,000' of...

I'm not talking about creating Minneapolis, Cinci, or Atalanta. I'm talking a single pedestrian bridge going over the O'Brien. You just argued all pedestrian overpass are losers. So the pedestrian overpass at Charles MGH should just be curbing and paint? Same for the one at the Hatch Shell...

Like I said, even in a road dieted version, it is still inherently less safe than a bridge. You can't beat with just not being there at all. And there's something to be said of the single street crossing of the current Lechmere to reach the Galleria. But since it's a island platform, you're...

I can see from the renders that the answer is "no". But I do recall people taking issue and I hoped that it would be accounted in the future. Is there any plans for a pedestrian bridge over O'Brien Highway? With the volume Lechmere gets and particularly the number that goes to Cambridge...

If you're talking about the "I don't really know" style of my recent posts, deal with it. It's an acknowledgement when I state stuff that I know that I don't really know. One of those things are that I have noticed recently is that I am learning a lot more now from official mouthpieces. I pick...

Maybe it is just because I just didn't know where to look before. But the existence of the FMCB is acting like a regular press release of information. Also seems like is acting like a force making the MBTA constantly posts projects and updates on them. I'm not sure on the truthfullness of that...

I heard plenty of time of "signal issue" or "mechanical issue". I can categorize the issue myself, sometimes hearing the exact issue means I can get a guess on the severity of the issue too. Meanwhile telling me the vague "signal issue" means a whole larger level of vagueness that leaves me...

It sounds like the MBTA has been taking a super cautious approach. They found every damn possible angle to test the train and then tested it some more. And even though they have released the train, they are still testing by letting her ride only between rush hours. Essentially creating a test...

I'll take the "malicious compliance". Does the additional information truly change the situation, I guess it won't. But information and transparency has value in-and-of itself. Weren't y'all annoyed back then when the delays happens and all we get the exact same vague statements? How they will...

I remember they announced they need to shut down the Viaduct years ago. Why haven't they finished the design back then and have the timing prepared already rather than rushing to finish the design now? They knew it back then, there was even a panic back then at the first announcement. MBTA...