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By definition, "[city] proper" refers to the legal city limits of a municipality. I don't think anyone is trying to change that. It's just that basing anything on what happens within the city limits of Boston is not representative of the area as a whole. To illustrate, which one of these is...

How could it not be? The overpass is a massive visual barrier when traveling north/south and takes up way too much land that could otherwise be developed to unite Forest Hills with the rest of JP. Eliminate the overpass, allow for TOD around the station and - voila - a much, much more...

Two things I've noticed on the Orange Line (focusing primarily on the southern Downtown-Forest Hills segment, though I'm sure these comments ring true for the north as well): 1. There are no signs on the right walls at the center platform stations (Forest Hills-Back Bay) indicating the station...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade Also why would all of Fairmount line be in 1A but Roslindale-West Roxbury is in 1?

Just to put this into perspective, we can't be talking about more than 3,000 daily boardings between the four Needham stations. As a comparison, Riverside alone probably generates that amount of traffic. The demand spurred by a vastly increased schedule will more than make up for the increased...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos I know that's functionally why the S-curve is there, but I guess the part I don't understand is why they didn't dig a tunnel the full width required to accommodate the tracks without an S-curve. I think the whole right of way is offset from Tremont...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Nice pic. It's interesting they still have lights on that far down the tunnel. Does anyone know why they laid the tracks with those S-curves at Boylston? Was it to avoid existing building foundations or other land (like the crazy curves to avoid the...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Need is such a subjective concept. :) The T could definitely stand to significantly beef up its network, mostly by adding entirely new lines. The fact that there are no rapid crosstown routes to avoid the saturated GC-Park-DTX-State hub is really...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Ugh. What about any one of the rapid transit lines that sees more riders than the entire commuter rail network combined? You'd think 'quick wins' like Blue to Charles/MGH, Blue to Lynn, Orange to West Roxbury might be up there. Or, you know...

I-238 is derived from the route's old CA-238 designation and has nothing to do with traditional Interstate route number conventions. Another doozy: NY with all of its orphaned I-x78 routes when I-78 was truncated to NJ. I've often thought that the split I-290/I-395 designations never made any...

I don't think there's any regulation, but I believe somewhere along the line they studied it and determined that for visibility purposes having the lights overhead is safer. My guess is it works well for the most part in Boston (and Paris) since the driving speeds are usually lower. In some...

Unfortunate given the seemingly ever-growing ties between Boston and Spain, but certainly justified given how terrible everything is over there. A lot of the premium Oneworld BOS-MAD traffic flows through LHR anyway so not necessarily the end of the world from an alliance perspective.

Those would be wasted marketing dollars. The physical location of BOS is horrifically far out of the way for Europe-South America traffic flows.

But short-turning alone isn't going to fix everything. Addressing the old mechanical lights from BU Central to Packards and the ridiculous station spacing from Packards to Kenmore would need to happen in conjunction with the Packards-Warren rebuild for truly meaningful relief on the line.

Thanks, I was actually looking for O&D and didn't have any luck so settled on total passengers. It's certainly true for hubs like ATL, DFW, IAH and CLT that their international numbers tend to get skewed because of connections, but I have to think the main driver behind PHL's depressed O&D...

Considering it's only a smidgen smaller than BOS and its northern market area has significant overlap with EWR and JFK, PHL isn't anything to sneeze at. Along with EWR, PHL is the only other airport in the Northeast that serves as a seamless, omnidirectional domestic and international hub...

We also spend half as much on infrastructure as most of Western Europe which is more of an uphill battle than the fact that we have around twice as much snow.

That seems pretty accurate, given our roads turn to crap much faster than most anything in Europe. ;) I'm pretty sure they tend to use some sort of stone/concrete base beneath a top coat of asphalt that is easily twice as thick as what we have in the US.

^ Oh, believe me, I know Massachusetts is far too parochial to consider the concept, but in a normal world where the region's largest and most important city should actually control the goings on in its vicinity, that's what would happen. :)

Madrid's taxis are unmistakeable and they use a predominantly white scheme: I'm also partial to the taxis in Barcelona - much, much classier than NYC. Streamlining the whole taxi system is just one of the reasons why we need a metropolitan-level government encompassing everything inside and...