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Wow - had no idea they were publishing this data. 5-6 mins lost per red/orange line trip is >10% loss in system capacity (a 45-min end to end trip taking 50 minutes). If headways are limited by lack of rolling stock (as in the case of orange at times) doing track work will literally be the...

MBTA twitter posted about this track work that lifted a speed restriction which has been in place since 2016. This may be related to the FRA investigation into the T. Mind-numbing that track work isn't prioritized for making trip times faster. I have a feeling that if a stretch of I-90 had...

While we're on this topic, it'd be great to see the city use more raised intersections/brick intersections where cars are forced to slow down and yield, and eliminate traffic signals entirely. This is feasible in areas where car traffic is low enough and speeds are reduced. With the build-out of...

Sadly Sun Country scrapped the route along with several others after running flights for 2-3 weeks. Seems like there hasn't been demand to support it ever since.

I didn't see any press release about this, but I'm seeing a couple BOS-MSN (Madison, WI) direct trips on Aug 21 and Aug 24. Looks like both AA and Delta are offering them. Not sure if this is some one-time back-to-school flight or some one-off repositioning of aircraft, but I do hope someone can...

I know I'm ranting a bit, but this kind of makes me lose faith in the MBTA adopting true EMU regional rail in our lifetimes. As if they are just saying "here you can have your electric train so the transit and climate advocates can stop bothering us" rather than an actual consideration of making...

https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2022-06/FTA-Special-Directive-22-4_0.pdf As frustrating as this is, the T is aggressively hiring to try and bring back dispatchers earlier to restore service. This now has to be one of the highest ROI-investments the state can make.. the...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/04/29/city-of-boston-reboots-plans-for-bus-priority-corridor-between-north-south-stations/ North-to-South Station high frequency bus was rebooted with initial designs due next year. This feels like a temporary solution to NSRL but I feel this needs some...

For those who have been following, Cambridge is pushing forward with putting up protected bike lanes across Mass Ave (they added quick-build separated lanes between Central and Harvard last fall) and will do Porter Square next in short order. As a resident that bikes to work these lanes have...

This is painful to read. These NIMBY surburbanites are probably the same folks with their massive SUV's and complaining about how much worse traffic has gotten. If we don't allow more living near the train (which by-design would predominantly be taking the train and boosting CR ridership)...

Do the existence of tail tracks (pushing the platform further away from the street) allow the trains to approach at a higher speed? Or are they forced down to 10mph along the entire length of the platform anyway? And I absolutely cannot believe the location of the bike cage. Do we really need...

Despite the safety culture there sure still seem to be a lot of Green Line incidents. Sure, some derailments are due to ancient rolling stock on Red/Orange, but the last few Green Line incidents I can remember seem to be operator error..

hopefully this is just temporary to let the new ballast settle? The stop sign is troubling however.

Such a relief that they are re-opening the Berkeley St exits. Never made much sense to me why they kept these closed when the pathways are already there (at least as an exit-only egress or something). I work on Berkeley St and having to double-back from the train to Arlington St, then walk back...

Anyone see any plans on how they plan to re-configure the lanes on the prospect st bridge? No way that 3-foot sidewalk can remain once there's foot traffic to/from the station. The area is also pretty hostile to bikes and peds (and cars I guess since the bridge is constantly backed up). Maybe...

Anecdotally, it feels like the road is way overbuilt for all times except the peak of peak rush hour. Plus theres so much signaling (i.e. lights) for side streets for the sole reason that you can't have a uncontrolled intersection across 2 lines of highway traffic (even the traffic levels don't...

I find it absurd that there exists a station and ROW directly to Gillette but the service is so abysmal. With the whole push to reduce congestion and reduce drunk driving this seems like the biggest no-brainer to run legitimate service (i.e. 3 trains at 30-min intervals pre-event, 3 trains out...

Are they planning to develop all empty lots to the north? Right now it's sad that the encatchment is half wasteland - and the useful half requires you to cross a 8-lane highway on foot. Kind of like the Red line stop in charles circle.. was there really no better way to design it so that not...

whats important is the queue jumps at the lights (the bridge rarely never gets backed up with traffic). So we could just have a Z-shaped config (where both ends have two lanes exiting the bridge and one lane entering the bridge). Then One of those two lanes will be bus-only and give a queue jump...

Rode these this morning. They basically just put up cones on the outside car lane to convert it into a bike lane - super pleasant to be able to not ride in the puddles in the normal 5-foot bike gutter in the rain. Do we know if this is the "temporary" solution while flex post are built and...