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What exactly is the point of building a bunch of low ridership rail that still has third world country infrastructure (single track, single platform, diesel run, surrounded by a sea of parking rather than in a town center)? Like I know the projected ridership/headways will be low enough that a...

I think is to facilitate two lanes for cars to queue up at the intersection, effectively increasing the capacity of the intersection. There's no doubt that as designed, it's an improvement over the existing viaduct which has no room for peds or bikes. However there should at a minimum be some...

Looks like a welcome change! I assume street parking was removed on one side to make room for the lane? My concern is just that with the parked cars on the other side, people will subconsciously drive closer to/on top of the double yellow line to avoid the door zone - especially larger and...

I also like having tail tracks so that trains can enter the MGH station at speed instead of slowing to 10mph for the entire last 500 feet. Travel times & ease of transfer to the Red are key elements of ridership!

Do you really think that? Storrow right now is 6 lanes of cars that produce constant engine & tire noise + pollution and air particles from tires and brakes, which is much different than a 2-track, electric heavy rail system with trains running by every 5 mins. Plus what I envision is the rail...

Mayor Wu announced partnership with Bluebikes to reduce the cost of an annual pass to $60 and basically free for low-income residents. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/10/12/mayor-wu-announces-discounted-bikeshare-passes-for-boston-residents This is great that it prices the bikes clearly under...

I really want to believe that the speed restrictions are possibly for only certain types of rolling stock only, rather than the operators aren't just deciding willy nilly whether or not to obey them.

I'd add to this uncluttering the approach to NS and SS. I think in a previous transitmatters report they mentioned that the entire mess of switches can be upgraded from 10mph to 25mph for relatively low cost and effort. This allows trains to clear the switches much faster and increase terminal...

I wish a bit more attention was paid to the quality of the pavement too. A car's shocks can largely absorb bumps and cracks but on a bike you can get thrown off the pedals or seat or your bag could fall out of the basket, which deters anyone but young, fit, experienced riders. Cambridge does a...

I don't quite get this. Isn't the problem just damaged tracks, switches, and third rail? Are you really telling me that just ripping out old tracks and installing new ones over the 20-mile red line takes.... 4 years? I feel that even the NYC MTA can get this done in 3-6 months. Shut the line on...

At least Cambridge has been aggressive in deploying their cycling safety ordinance, giving a great alternative for local trips. Hampshire St separated bike lanes were just completed. I'd imagine the Alewife park-n-ride ridership is abysmal right now, though making the entire fresh pond parkway...

Not sure I agree with that. Ped conflict with bikes is always safer and much lower injury risk than ped conflict with cars or bike conflict with cars. And plus, we're talking about drunk people stumbling around for maybe ~5 hours a week while this is a major bike thoroughfare that is used at all...

But we're not asking the drivers to themselves mode switch to bikes, but rather trying to convince them that (enough) other people will be willing to do it if biking were safe and convenient. Maybe all the suburbanites who only hang out with other suburbanites would feel that way, but they...

I wish the focus wasn't so much on "being green" and "reducing carbon emissions" which seems to really trigger the carbrains. Instead if they brand it as reducing congestion with mode shifts (getting more cars off the road so your commute can be faster and free up parking utilization on newbury...

hopefully this involves some charles circle road reconfiguration or other road diet. The entire area is pretty hostile outside of a car needing to cross multiple lanes of traffic in all directions on a bike or on foot.

We're quickly approaching the point of where it would be better to run no service, have shuttle buses on the entire line in bus lanes, so they can get 24/7 access to repairing tracks. They could do the entire southside for a month and then the entire north side for a month. Especially with just...

Anyone know what the longfellow bridge is? I take a blue bike up that bridge both ways each day and it's definitely a bit of a slog in my dress shirt..

The value of the real estate near the transit stop is directly related to how good the transit service is. Provide 5-min headways and short transfer times, people will pay up to ride the train. Someone on reddit pointed out that instead of subsidizing the lots they should just be replaced with TOD.

I legit cannot fathom how full-high's haven't been put in at Back Bay yet for the Worcester Line tracks., given how much ridership it gets. At least put in some temporary metal raised platforms or something.

Haha, just as long as the wheels still use rubber tires. So basically they want a autonomous electric trolleybus that runs on a dedicated ROW at rapid transit frequencies. Sounds like the silver line and we all know how blazing fast that thing is.