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One of the main reasons? I'm not so easily convinced. To be sure, they happen, but there's no doubt the primary function is bus-to-OL and the reverse. The people who live between the Square and Forest Hills wouldn't lose that connectivity, either. It's the people who live beyond Roslindale...

The station distance isn't that great that it would result in any material operational efficiencies.

Maybe I am missing something, but Park Street-Aquarium is basically the same distance as South Station-Aquarium... why wouldn't you continue taking the D to Park and walk (or D to Park and C/E to Haymarket for a shorter walk), and save yourself at least $103 a month?

I believe I read when they were proposing the shutdown versus keeping the station open that the timeline was three years if the station remained open, two years if it were closed. The MBTA never explained why we're only able to save a third of the time with the closure. Two years still seems...

Carrying this over from the GLX thread... That is exactly my point - these vehicles are going to be the outliers for quite some time. If less than 10 percent of the whole fleet is Type 9s, it isn't the vast overhaul in ridding the Green Line of old, rusty equipment that the media appears to...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 I love the journalistic hype they're trying to create around a 24-train order, considering it's only 10 percent of the entire Green Line fleet. Those Type 7s and 8s aren't going to be leaving for quite awhile based on the 2017 date for the first Type 9s.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos The thing is... I really don't think it was riders raising all of the fuss about fare evasion. When you have a budget shortfall, it's always easiest to point the finger at an sitting target (fare evasion) than something that is a much more systemic...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 That's like saying Boeing is an Illinoisan company, not an American one. A person can be ethnically and culturally Basque, but that doesn't take away from his Spanish nationality. For a company whose headquarters are located in the Basque Contry but...

Ridership increases for both the Red and Orange are pretty amazing - basically leaving the two neck and neck when compared on a passengers-per-mile (Red=13K, Orange=18K) and passengers-per-trip (Red=623, Orange=627). Not sure what the complete saturation point is, but it appears we're scooting...

What kind of maintenance flexibility is derived from married pairs on Red/Orange? Neither line has plans for any sort of platform extensions, nor do they use variable train configurations in revenue service. A long list of systems utilize fully articulated trains to much success, meaning the...

Curiously, the MBTA says there are no ridership forecasts/goals for the pilot? :confused:

That looks great, davem. Kind of reminds me of the KickMaps of NYC and London. My only two comments: 1. Perhaps it would be best to draw combined lines like 1/2/3 and 6/7 as distinct lines since the routes separate and join at different points? Right now you can't tell whether the 1/2/3...

It's so asinine. The Washington Street corridor from Forest Hills to Dedham Mall should absolutely be part of the program. The fact that 2-5+ different routes cover the corridor doesn't make it less important than the so-called "key bus routes". It's such a flawed system. So many corridors...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Trolley driver in crash has decades of motor vehicle violations The shock. The awe. I am sure speed was more than a contributing factor. Let's be honest - it was likely the reason for the derailment. I can recall more than a few times feeling...

^ That's obviously not the point of selling naming rights... the only thing that it does is guarantee the MBTA a fixed level of revenue over the life of the contract. Something that isn't subject to the seasonality of ad demand in the transit out of home arena.

Nomenclature for the stations or lines wouldn't likely change in practice. The way it operates in Madrid is that Vodafone is really just paying for permanent out of home media impressions with advertising on all signage, maps, etc. Nobody actually says "Vodafone Sol" or "Vodafone Line 2" when...

Just annex the land wherever the stadium would be. :)

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild Why wouldn't they just temporarily resign the platforms so that D and B are on the inner track and E and C on the outer? Granted they'll always be making adjustments, but might be better from a crowd-control standpoint to be as consistent as possible through the closure.

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild It was certainly public, but "carefully thought out" remains to be seen. Let's wait and see if their modeling is actually correct and somehow all of the movements that originate/terminate/transfer at Government Center can be easily absorbed by Park/State/DTX. For...

Re: Gov't Center Rebuild Can't wait to deal with the massive influx of passengers on the already-crowded DTX-State hop. :D