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It can't, you're going to have garbage headways from both terminals. And as F-Line pointed out, they're screwing up the FR end so badly that when it comes time to actually build Phase II, no one is going to want to shovel money at an already underperforming line. I do get the argument that FR...

In fairness, the community's opposition to buses is stated in the documents - they could go all "we know better" on us, but one would think the various failure-to-communicate debacles (such as the original 28X) would indicate to them that they can't cram something like that down the community's...

I was hoping that this might be the opportunity to make the upper 128 exits less screwy... the numbers will still jump backwards at the split but at least they will keep increasing in the NB direction instead of inverting at the split and decreasing as you head towards Gloucester from Peabody...

I'm truly not trying to be condescending, and apologize if I've come off that way. But, at the risk of stating the obvious, being familiar with the streets as a driver isn't the same as being familiar with the travel flows of an area as a pedestrian or transit rider. This is why I truly do...

I'd argue in response that the other side of the walkshed was harmed most by the temporary-to-permanent suspension of Arborway service. In fact my entire stance is that putting the OL in the cut and taking away the two flanking transit modes (Arborway and the El) put the transit in a shitty spot...

This is one of the statements that bugs me and outs you as someone unfamiliar with the area we're trying to plan for. Which is fine, we aren't all familiar with every area of the city. But it's the sort of statement that gets dander up in the community, which is the main point F-Line and I are...

But Nubian is exactly that, for all intents and purposes. It's the strongest demand node in the neighborhood, and is a destination unto itself. Everything else gets fairly diffuse until you get to FH and Rozzie Square (and yes, Rozzie Square is the world's most obvious +1 for HRT, but that's got...

Better east-west pedestrian access sounds better, but you can't magically make 4/10ths or 6/10ths of a mile into 1/4 of a mile, and you can't magically level topography (well, I guess you can but at that point you might as well just put the trains where the people already are). The sidewalks on...

I haven't had the chance to watch that documentary (aiming for tomorrow actually), but the Red Line is mostly a non-entity in terms of useful transit for the Washington Street corridor. It's way off to the East, and the only way you were accessing it from the Washington Street corridor was going...

Not to go further off-topic but let's go further off. We could run the Acela sets on the Keystone Corridor right this second if we magically had enough Acela 2s to operate the existing Acela schedule. For that matter, we could simply buy and run more Acela 2s on the corridor if we're happy to...

Sure, I get the impulse to push back, but at least around here, semi-serious analysis is considered a plus, from everything I've seen (it's why I'm here instead of rr.net, for sure). Pushing back just for the sake of pushing back really isn't constructive discussion, and is going to devolve into...

Fine, I'll bite (even though you're being weirdly stubborn to the point of fruitlessness), but it's apples and oranges, my man, apples and oranges. Aircraft stairs and ramps are used at airports that either are too small for the infrastructure of a jetway to be worthwhile to purchase and...

@whittle has got it right though, it doesn’t matter the time difference between an MBTA local and an Acela express unless your contention is that the only way to pull off an express service is by using the Acela trainsets. Using the Acelas would only save you 5 or so minutes in savings over...

I'm no stranger to thinking outside the box (my post history is short here, it's pretty much all outside the box thus far), but in this case I've got to say, instead of wondering if we can, we need to wonder first if we should. First, why do we want to put in express service PVD-BBY-BOS...

So you're saying only half of F-Line's objections apply to the idea, as opposed to all of them. The configuration would be nice as a traveler, but it doesn't make any sense to maintain a small, issue-riddled unicorn fleet just for 3x daily express service between Boston and Providence...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail I haven't done the commute personally, so I take it at face value that it is horrendous (having driven the reverse and seen the inbound traffic, it looks as bad as described). I don't think that means there shouldn't be a bus downtown though. I do think...

And there’s the answer on ROW, thanks. I wouldn’t say I think extending Red past Braintree was a good idea (it’s not), more curious if it was even feasible from a ROW perspective, because BostonBoy got me wondering with his Savin Hill superstation idea. For the record, that need not be an...

I’m curious, is there room in the ROW for a Red extension to Brockton? It would unbalance the branches, but that could be mitigated by Ashmont branch fulfilling its manifest destiny and swallowing the MHSL, with optional extension on to Fairmount to grab both Mattapan Square and Cleary Square...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail I absolutely agree, but you don’t move the ball politically by saying “hey I know you want this for your community and the state keeps saying you’ll get something, but yeah no”. That’s an excellent way to create entrenched institutional enemies (likely...

Because there's no "there" to Savin Hill - it's almost entirely residential, not even a shred of demand from any of Old Colony to there, and a station location on a relatively quiet side street such that if you shifted the activity from JFK/UMASS there, you would have to re-engineer the entire...