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If anything, autonomous vehicles will make highways more relevant and rail transit less so. Yes car ownership will decrease, but automobile usage will only increase. Ideally cost savings and eventually things like congestion taxes could push people towards carpooling and small buses to replace...

The fifth round trip would just be reinstating the frequency that they had pre pandemic.

Universal vaccine availability is only a few months away, it'll be interesting to see how quickly T ridership rebounds. And the an 11 percent reduction from fall 2019 levels is still an increase compared to current service levels.

Indy already has 2 carriers on it, including american which is now a code share partner.

Kansas city, st louis, and milwaukee are all served by only one airline to BOS and would be probable expansion targets for jetblue. Oklahoma city and des moines are two unserved markets that would make sense.

Distance wise Nashua is pretty comparable to Fitchburg, with a larger population than Fitchburg.

I'm surprised that the zoning bill didn't get more attention. It's kinda a big deal to require suburbs to have urban zoning next to commuter rail stations.

With the new development at Woburn Landing, Mishawum should be converted to a full time station.

Fortunately there's another station a quarter mile away, so no real loss.

Revere has a large immigrant and non-citizen population. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't fully counted in this years census.

Along those lines, I wouldn't be surprised if JetBlue is planning to cut back LGA shuttle frequency and repurposing that capacity to leisure destinations post covid. Especially with the AA partnership giving JetBlue FF an option.

Airlines are betting that leisure travel will come back faster than business travel.

I'd suggest a blue line extension to Lynn on one side and Charles/MGH on the other. That combined with a people mover, or just movable walkways to control costs, would provide pretty good transit access to Logan.

The first fully automated vehicles will function like Ubers, with no personal ownership. Due to the economics of not having to pay a driver, it'll make car ownership obsolete for a large chunk of the population.

A vaccine looks like it's coming very soon. It'll be interesting to see how fast air traffic comes back. It's kinda late in the game to be starting layoffs tbh.

Well the 737 Max is allowed to fly again.

Cheaper yes, but the RUR with rapid transit frequencies will help a much larger area. It would also provide better connections to Salem/Beverly. The whole section from downtown Beverly on in could support rapid transit. Salem, Beverly and Lynn have all been pretty supportive building dense...

Frankly, this came out much better than I thought it would from the renders.

Can I nominate this to the "worst developments of 2020" list?

Merging the Downeaster and Northeast Regional might increase Maine/NH ridership a little bit, but it's a fairly small benefit compared to how NSRL would improve commuter rail.