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So I'll say that Springfield should get more and better train service, but it should be targeted at occasional riders. There seems to be a lot of people advocating for train service to Springfield to attract some significant number of daily commuters. That's a pipedream, a boondoggle, or both...

Crazy transit pitches. But more seriously I think we've generally kept this thread limited to stuff within commuter range and put intercity stuff like Springfield in the Amtrak thread. We had a discussion on it there earlier this year.

I'd taken it at quasi-face value since I'd remembered reading something a couple years ago about the T studying the costs and revenues from the green line extension and it was projected to lose a lot of money. Turns I was right, but those numbers didn't agree with what they're saying now:

The big deal is that most potential GLX riders are already transit users, so it won't bring in new much new revenue. But this isn't assuming changes in bus service. Or, as van mentioned, additional development. When those numbers were presented at the FMCB it seemed like everyone was in...

I'm guessing that would require running a train specifically for that purpose which doesn't seem particularly efficient.

Pollack said that the rail vision estimate for the cost of station improvements was well below the cost of Natick Center ($36.2 million). This doesn't appear to be case. Alts 4 and 6 are both estimating $36-37million per station undergoing construction and $34million per station in Alt5 (I don't...

I think the biggest issue (along with the aforementioned lack of density) with a 128 rail service (whether that be CR, rapid transit, or LRV) is it will never be an appealing service to car owning suburbanites, and the target demographic will have to be people who live in urbanized areas inside...

Maintaining our current infrastructure is the most important we can do infrastructure wise. Failing to back an effort to do so because it doesn't meet all our purity tests does not do anything helpful.

I would question whether an MBTA/MassDOT press agent (I'm assuming the source for the story) saying there was an expectation the ramp would be used by the MBTA says anything about the intent of the design/construction from a decade before.

The presentation shows the Reading urban rail line having it's terminus at a new station next to 93. Does anyone else feel this is fairly redundant in addition to Anderson (which is probably the only station for which the "unrestrained parking" assumption is truly accurate)? If there's a desire...

Are they threads you've opened since the update?

I'd say the same thing about Newbury.

My issue with "Mass Ave" is not so much that it would be confused with the OL station, but that it would be confused with Symphony.

And sure enough, there's a new train running right now and it's not the one that was running this morning.

Btw, green line transformation public meetings start today. https://www.mbta.com/projects/green-line-transformation

The better comparison is Acela vs NE Regional, which is a difference of 5 minutes.

Took the 71 earlier today and it was a regular bus. Does anyone know if this is routine?

I like the idea of this thread, though I'm unsure it belongs in this subforum. On the note of the Nashville plan. In conversations with my dad who lives in Nashville (and is very pro-transit in spite of his libertarian leanings), we both came to the conclusion that the Nashville plan was not...

Construction on the BU West stations is already underway, so is this referring to the Warren/Allston/Griggs triplet? I'm not sure what you're asking about, but if AFC isn't in place by when GLX opens (which is starting to look likely), the T will need to buy AFC 1.0 fare vending machines for...

1402&1403 are currently in revenue service.