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Blue Hill Ave is going to look like somerville if this project goes in fully as designed. And with it, will come the gentrification and rising rents.

Blue Hill Ave redesigns for center-running bus lanes include a whole host of protected bikeways and intersections. Great to see full-depth rebuilds finally getting it right...

I'm also really curious what we can do to save transit. With the funding shortfall it seems like we would have to live with no weekend CR, all buses cut to 30-min or worse frequency, and all heavy/light rail at a 15-min frequency. Raising fares is not an option. Congestion tolling seems...

I thought the documentation and diligence on repairs was so poor that the track has actually been in poor condition for a decade and they were just running trains over it at full speed with no knowledge of that.

Awesome progress. The real test will be how the major intersections look after the redesign, however. Separated lanes aren't so useful if it requires traversing a 5-way intersection of 3-lanes of cars each (with sharrows) just to reach them. Looking specifically at Beacon st & cambridge, harvard...

Part of the issue is these still look like asphalt paths, and this is confusing since most asphalt paths people are allowed to walk on. The red asphalt in the netherlands makes it very clear what space is for cars, walking, and bikes.

Yes this. This is a great opportunity to push back against the narrative of "we need someone to die in order for change to happen" and accelerate a full review of all the different chokepoints on the bike path, not just this one. The entire stretch past the BU bridge to River St is uncomfortably...

It's good to see some of these plans separate the multi-use path from the 5' dirt walking/jogging path in some sections. Every new re-design should necessitate separating the two and removing car lanes (if necessary) to create the space. If we learn from the best bike cities in europe, reducing...

If Back Bay can have a Logan Express shuttle, then Kendall Square in Cambridge should have one too. The amount of conference travelers going from the airport to that Kendall Square Marriott must be massive. Plus Main St in Kendall already has plenty of curb space for bus loading and layovers. A...

Yea.. with all the construction going on in copley square, they missed an opportunity to build sidewalk-level bike lanes (makes sense both on Dartmouth St and St James ave).

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/12/boston-will-start-building-dartmouth-street-protected-bikeway-this-fall This is really great progress: 2-way protected cycle track on Dartmouth st from the esplanade to boylston. This helps to connect Back Bay with a southbound route although there still...

Post red line shutdown, looks like the line is largely free of slow zones with exception of the braintree branch, which continues to be a disaster. The looming September shutdown should do wonders for service frequency. By October 1st the line should be largely back to pre-pandemic travel times...

I wonder if there will be any immediate timetable adjustments once all the rolling stock has been replaced? The higher top speed would maybe take ~5 mins off the BOS <> NYP run?

not only that, but free buses = greater ridership = more people waiting for the bus at stops and riding on the bus. People are less likely to assault bus drivers/commit crimes when a bunch of people are around and watching. That makes the on-bus and bus-stop experience safer for everyone else.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/08/12/more-bluebikes-coming-soon-city-of-boston-plans-100-new-bluebikes-stations-across-the-city a bunch of new stations coming, starting this fall. Looks like major focus areas were the downtown-crossing pedestrianized area, north station, and north end. This...

Boylston street is filled with grand architecture, amazing destinations, amazing history, and that's why we need to have 3 highway sized lanes of cars going down the middle of it!!

I can understand that sentiment but major infrastructure like this is built for the next few decades, not for the next few years. This intersection is less than a mile from the Natick Center stop and if they ever have plans of converting route 9 from a highway into a mixed transit/bike/car...

christ, the sidewalks/shared-use paths in this monstrosity honestly look like satire. No one who is going anywhere on foot is going to follow these curvy paths and cloverleaf looparounds + waiting at 3 different ped signals just to take a left turn.

I'm sure the NEC is super-congested beyond what I can see on the Metro North schedule, but after riding the 4pm Acela from Penn northbound a few times for work, it seems like - 1 or sometimes 2 tracks are closed for extended lengths, forcing the Acela to run on the local track interlaced with...

We need to stop throwing money at studying these pipe dreams. Just get the existing ROW tracks and bridges up to full possible speed based on the current geometry, unclutter the South Station/Penn Station approaches, get the MBTA to run EMU's on the Providence Line, maybe straighten a curve here...