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This is unreal - there is a full 0.8mi restriction WB from Lechmere to Union Square. Why even run service at that point? Everyone would be better served just walking to Lechmere and jumping on the train there. That way they can work on fixing the brand new track that was installed.. 2 months ago?

It's wild how the I-95 bridge collapse, which serves 150k cars day, was fixed in 12 days, while the Red Line which carries ~240k per day pre-pandemic is allowed to languish for months at a unusable frequency and travel speed.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/09/somervilles-community-path-extension-opens-saturday Old news from last weekend, but the Sommerville community path just opened (connecting lechmere to Davis & Alewife). This provides a good bike connection from almost all of sommerville to downtown...

On such a major thoroughfare street parking should be eliminated along the entire length (with exception of some loading zones). I'm honestly not even sure if bus lanes would do much good here (cars will constantly be spilling into it due to all the intersections/traffic lights. It might be more...

That is true but relieving traffic congestion is non linear such that even if we get 10-25% to take the train, the traffic situation will ease up. And of course if the CR were a connected regional rail network with NSRL that gives a lot more suburb-to-suburb 2-seat rides with travel times that...

right.. to be fair, they did build the stadium right next to a Rail ROW.. imagine a 25-min electric train to back bay running every half hour.. The real misfire was building Xfinity Center just far away from the commuter rail that everyone has to drive drunk just to make it home.

This is bonkers. Having direct CR service to SS would certainly raise property values.

This is a really bad look - sure there is a train operator/dispatcher shortage but to provide essentially no service on the line through the lowest-income area is inexcusable. I seriously cannot blame anyone for driving/taking lyft and contributing to the congestion with the current state of...

seems like the rotary is generally wide enough - seems like there should be space to fit a dutch-style protected bike intersection around that rotary. I guess this is Winthrop, not Cambridge we're talking about here..

Sorry if this was discussed earlier - but any updates/news on opening of the community path? Are segments of it already bikeable (even if not technically open)?

I think the point is that when faced with this trip (airport to JP), only a masochist, transit die-hard, or broke student would use transit. Anyone with a bit of money in their pocket would save literally a hour by taking a uber.

They are also asking for 4tph on the Worcester Line and 12!!! tph on fairmount and providence/NEC line. Is 12tph even possible with 100mph EMU's, interlaced with the acela's and northeast regionals?

My main issue is that the SL1 is actually even worse than direct bus service. Like Bananarama mentioned, for anyone connecting from downtown or Red Line to the airport, the SL1: - runs on a bus-like headway (10-min at peak, but with bunching and sometimes 20-min gaps between buses) - has a...

This^^. Somehow for every mode of transport other than driving, safety is the top priority and there is a near-no-tolerance policy (how long were the new OL trains yanked off for?) while for driving, it's just an unavoidable cost of keeping the economy moving. Anywho - can they install some...

If they really put in a radar speed sign you bet all of college kids will be racing their bikes/scooters for a high score on that thing..

I think there is some issue with their new calculation method. If you look at the line segments, only seems like a few new slow segments have been added (mostly to the south side). The speed restrictions near Park St actually seem to have been lifted this week.

What plan? Just replace the broken parts FFS. If there was a 3-lane-wide pothole across I-90 that you could only go 5mph over, drivers would be rioting in the streets if you came up with a "long term plan" about how to fix that.

Because then where would uber and doordash drivers idle while they are making pickups/dropoffs? :rolleyes: I think building bike lanes next to the curb usually requires a buffer for the "door-zone" and more ROW width - which it appears there is plenty of room on this street. I think there are...

Did a short ride through a lot of the new downtown bike lanes (Boylston St, Essex St, Washington St, State St/Court St, Cambridge St, Arlington St) - much of it on flex-post separated dedicated lane and bus/bike shared lane. Definitely encouraging to see the start of a connected network come...

I forget where this has been discussed, but how much of a non-starter is it to quad-track the central subway (from kenmore to govt center?) The outside pair of tracks already exist from Boylston to Park St & at kenmore, and it would provide some capacity relief to the central core where all...