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From the slow zone tracker, we did see trip improvements of nearly 5min for the Red line (looks like new track replacements on the north-side of the line) after some weekend closures. It does seem like at the current pace of work, by sometime next month both red & orange will be running on...

What if we told car drivers this: if we mandate blue bikers use helmets, all of a sudden the inconvenience of having to own/carry/wear a helmet & wear high-vis clothing pushes all of those people off bikes and into ubers. Then, because traffic congestion is non-linearly related to number of cars...

Especially considering the circumstances. Imagine the outrage if I-93 was in a state of disrepair such that you could only traverse sections of it at 10mph. And then the state asked to shut down the entire thing for a month. And then after it re-opened, you could only do 5mph on it. This would...

I'd love to be educated on this - how do other rapid transit systems deal with this? Just anecdotally riding the Tube in London, the Metro in DC, or even the NYC subway we don't hear much about slow zones - even directly after weekend track work, the line immediately resumes running at track...

TransitMatter's Slow Zone tracker indicates that the Red Line just hit an all-time high in slow-zones at 13 full minutes lost on each trip. Seems like Red might be next for at least partial shutdowns to do track work

Not to mention the tiny sidewalks when the street carries more people on foot than in a car.. With the recent protests from business I'm hopeful that the city recognizes that some improvement is necessary. They could start with just doing temp cones/barrels on one side of the street (similar to...

I think this is the key. I agree with vanshnookraggen that we absolutely can't let this get in the way of redesigning streets and progress (the status quo is always going to be keeping car throughput). But when transit and bikeable neighborhoods are scarce, streets that have transit/separated...

I really wish they would communicate/appreciate how absolutely important travel times/removing slow zones are. It is so much more than just "getting riders where they need to go faster". Running trains at track speed will: - Reduce car traffic on streets by improving travel times of...

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a90bff933db94496b6c4214caf17c706 Mayor Wu announced this forward-looking plan for citywide biking infrastructure which includes 9 miles of new protected lanes by end of 2023. Reddit is already blowing up about these - but some glaring omissions are charles...

This is more for the RL/OL transformation thread - but I believe F-line discussed how the new cars have to run on fixed-block ATO for the time in order to interlace with the existing older trains, but have the technology in order to run full-automated CBTC in the future. We might still always...

The lack of system redundancy is painfully obvious with weekend traffic at the airport with Sumner closed. The last two weekends have been an absolute zoo, with I-90 WB traffic backing up out of the highway and into the airport road loop. SL1 is an absolute joke with >60min wait + travel times...

I think that one was addressed in an earlier tweet from MBTA (and is up to 25mph temporarily, but should eventually run at 40mph). Hoping this means 0 slow zones by the time the line re-opens, whenever that is. I am encouraged that the MBTA is now publicly addressing slow zones as an issue that...

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Ok maybe I'm just being negative, but why in the world would this not be built appropriately the first time around so that some semblance of an acceptable level of service can be provided? 10 mph from union square to north station is slower than a bike and probably slower than a car stuck in...

Are any of the HRT tracks rated for 50-60mph? Seems like even Red tops out at 40-45mph on the straightaways between kendall/central. Speaking of which, is the same thing going to happen for the Red Line in october? It really is a lose-lose.. if the maintenance isn't as "dire" to require a full...

Aug 19 to Sept 18 - official dates are out for the shutdown. We're fortunate that the two ends of the OL run parallel to CR trains that pull into Back Bay and North Station, with the Green Line providing train service through the core. The NEC is probably running at capacity but is there any...

Thanks for sharing some of that data - I was speaking from anecdotes in that stretch of SFR always seems less congested (compared to east of fenway, etc) and free flowing even during peak periods. However, it seems that dropping lanes either from the pike or SFR will reduce capacity to some...

The design of this thing just seems all-in-all car centric with the #1 priority being to preserve all road capacity. Given that the project won't be completed well into next decade anyway (when climate mandates to reduce carbon footprint will near their deadlines), it seems highly reasonable to...

I'm surprised that they were able to resume service so quickly after this incident - trains already running on their usual 10min headways now, suggesting that there's zero damage to the third rail or power systems.

http://archboston.com/community/threads/general-mbta-topics-multi-modal-budget-massdot.971/post-432696 see discussion in the general topics thread here..