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I wish there'd be more thought and attention given to bike storage. I'm not particularly confident that if I (for example) bike Downtown for a night out, that my bike is still going to be there, intact and undamaged when I come out 6 hours later, even with good locks. And certainly not if I...

The report is talking about linear feet of track - there are 2+ tracks. So in terms of the line it's probably more like half the line was fucked at the time, not the entire thing......which is still awful, obviously. The graphs on slides 14 + 15 are for track due for renewal or extended...

Well, as of late 2019 - there was an estimated $1bn of power systems work (system-wide) in the capital backlog and only about $170m of it actually in the 5-year CIP to be done. Not sure how it's changed since. System-wide Power Assessment - Capital Needs

For the not so ultra low cost end of things, it's puzzled me that dual jet-bridges have never really taken off for your typical narrowbody. Albany had some (Southwest 737s - gates C2 + C3) for most of the past 15 years, but retired them. It seems like consistently shaving at least a few minutes...

Uh, LGA's been demolished and rebuilt from scratch. (aside from the small, separate, historic Marine Air Terminal). There's been about zero renovation/modernization AFAIK. It's fairly easy to have consistent design language when you're building the entire airport as one large project, at the...

There are multiple signs on Berkeley on the blocks leading up to it, though. I count 4 different ones on the Comm to Beacon block of Berkeley, including a 10'0" height warning. Beacon has "NO TRUCKS" written repeatedly in the right turn lane, and 4 signs as well in the block before Berkeley...

I'm certainly not the highway engineer, but most of what I can find suggests that around 2-2.2k vehicles per hour is the typical per-lane capacity of a multi-lane highway, and Storrow/SFR is probably at least a bit lower with the narrow lanes and other constraints. Moving well with 2 lanes can...

I remain skeptical of the potential of West Station to be much more than Boston Landing in terms of transit utility as currently proposed, and it remains very unclear what the bus purpose/component of it is. As of now, the only bus connections actually proposed for it are a rerouted 64, and...

If operations is as incompetent/incapable/crippled from staff shortages as it appears to be, I feel like that's not an issue that can be solved by capital projects, which is what all the rapid transit transformation stuff is? Wave a magic wand and the MBTA is now in as perfect shape as the...

Seems rather unlikely to me? That would be both ugly and disrupt the design. Emergency exits seem like they would almost certainly be built inside the building with ground-level doors out. I imagine it's just being kept open for the moment as temporary loading dock in the sky for delivering...

Considering that they're still powered on, I suspect that wasn't intentional.

Not sure they're really building much of anything. The little stub down to "Hotel Way" is basically the only thing new there. The rest of that is pretty much the current road configuration unmodified. And I suspect the impetus for that spur is more to get a better route for trucks to Houghton...

I think things were even more dire back then. But I also think it suggests that the MBTA hasn't really made the same (or any?) kind of progress with "routine maintenance" that they have with capital projects.

I was scrolling some Massport board minutes (slide 71 - https://www.massport.com/media/edyfyaay/website_march-board-meeting_03-17-22.pdf), and noticed they've also picked up a bi-weekly SE Asia service from "ZIM". Vietnam + Southern China (Yantian) stops. Doesn't look like particularly big...

A February article suggested late summer: https://www.valleybreeze.com/townnews/building_industry/finer-details-tied-to-access-at-train-station-being-sorted-out/article_1e5b6794-8e54-11ec-9cd9-cb413244c6cf.html Haven't seen more since.

Boston's rooms tax is 16.45% at a typical hotel, so that sounds like a bargain.... (5.7% state, 6.5% city, 1.5% "tourism assessment", 2.75% "convention tax") And the 7% on meals isn't a whole lot lower.

Different toll rates are generally done by giving a discount to EZ-Pass transponders from a certain state, NOT to residents from a certain state. There's no residency requirement for a transponder. If you enact significantly different rates, you'll just have all regular NH commuters pick up a...

As an ex-Jerseyan - A big hurricane or two does have a way of changing minds and removing political opposition to protection projects, though. I'm sure there will be someone that requires eminent domain in court, but that's the case for every project.

Not saying these are good answers, but: 1. Why do they care? The water has no abutters and they put the more pleasant looking buildings near Sullivan/actual neighborhood frontage. Swapping the E&M MOW building with the bus garage would be even uglier if that's what you're saying, it'd be like a...

A brief skim of the recording (1hr59min mark, roughly) is Mar 2022 still listed for Union Sq, Medford Branch is listed just as "in the coming months (schedule under review)" I did not listen to the remarks made in depth to know if there was more schedule insight offered than in the presented...