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BTW, they did a presentation to the FMCB last month which talked about the user testing process and how point of sale locations (fare vending machines and retail locations) will be selected. They have a map of all the places which Cubic is required to place fare vending machines no matter what...

MBTA isn't doing most of the work, Cubic is and they have an performance based contract that requires they maintain the system for 10 years. RFPs for what? Cubic and John Liang were awarded the contract for AFC 2.0 months ago.

My point of confusion is that the description given sounded something like a weird hybrid of Chicago of London. In Chicago Metra (commuter rail) has not adopted the Cubic fare card (called Ventra) adopted by CTA for el and bus, though app used to add value to a Ventra card also lets you buy...

Where are you getting this information? This doesn't sound much like Cubic's fare collection tech in other cities which is based around contactless payments.

There was sort of an experiment with this a couple years ago when Cupuano used campaign funds to make the Fairmount Line free for a couple weeks.

If get rid of one, you lose it's parking.

If you're hoping that r/boston will not immediately fall in love with a comment that the only thing preventing [insert pie-in-the-sky transit proposal] is government under-investment and mismanagement; then you'll be fighting a lost battle. Most people on reddit aren't looking for new...

It's stuck at street level at Main St for the foreseeable future. Can't tunnel because of the Red Line and can't elevate since a building straddles the tracks just south of Main St.

Thanks F-Line; that historical context does really show how the comparison is is not apt.

Just read this reddit comment and was curious if anyone here could comment on the veracity the claim that the central subway is well below capacity is. I trust y'all more than someone on reddit.

I don't know if I agree with this, since many of the factors that making driving unappealing (namely expensive parking) still apply in some manner for weekday midday trips, or at least to a greater extent than the weekend. Though I wouldn't surprised if you'd see similar trends to weekends for...

I've updated the link with a github repository which hopefully should work better. Yes since I could think of no good way of estimating ridership increases. The point of this exercise was mostly to show that even when making every possible assumption (to the point of absurdity) in a manner...

So I've been curious for awhile how much implementing an off-peak fare structure for the commuter rail might cost so I decided to go through the ridership data to attempt to calculate this, and I thought y'all might be interested in this too. As the data includes neither payment method nor...

Re: T construction news 3 tracks and all high level platforms? If we're not careful we might start get confused for a city that makes meaningful investments in regional rail.

I think the issue is much deeper than just how visible the station is. Buses are inherently confusing for someone unfamiliar with the street grid (an accurate description of most BU underclassman). Combine that with the fact that most BU students grew up in wealthy suburbs where buses are...

At least in my experience, BU students who lived off campus (so the ones who would be using 57/B daily) would would be well aware that the 57 was faster, but those who lived on campus (with some exceptions) would be largely unaware that public buses even existed.

Also the state senator also leading the opposition is know for not getting along with Cuomo and was reportedly particularly miffed that he wasn't consulted for a project in his district. And, it was him getting an appointment that would let him kill the project that drove Amazon to back out.

Interestingly, NYC had a strong majority in favor of Amazon, while Boston leaned towards opposing the Olympics. But Boston Olympics did not really have any prominent opposition in local politics, while opposition to Amazon in NYC was lead by a powerful State Senator and one of the most well...

They've signed a lease for 430,000 sq ft in Seaport, with an option for more. https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2018/11/13/amazon-is-expanding-in-boston-even-without-hq Don't have numbers for what they already have.

Remember that Amazon's lease in the Seaport lets them lease additional space for another 2,000 employees.