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From the T's CRRC vehicle specs, these are the maximum grades for HRT in Boston: Red - 4% for up to 1200 ft., less than that is unlimited. Orange - 5.6% for up to 60 ft., 4% for up to 750 ft., less than that is unlimited. 6% maximum on the vehicle design tolerances for safe braking...

https://www.amtrak.com/alert/lake-shore-limited-service-changes.html Lake Shore Ltd. suspended/bustituted between Boston and Albany until further notice, and Berkshire Flyer's planned season startup beginning Friday is also cancelled due to a large/complex sinkhole that opened up on the Amtrak...

The T isn't going to sniff at the MP54AC, even though it is still available for order from MPI. Those are genset locomotives (genset = 2 small, fast-spinning DMU-like diesel engines in lieu of 1 large, slow-spinning prime mover). The T won't even maintain its two NRE genset work locomotives...

It works the same way on all 4 lines. The cars ping RFID tags placed on the ROW coded with the station ID's, because GPS doesn't work well in the tunnels. Missed signals can cause hiccups in the system requiring the operator to manually intervene on the onboard computer to reset the station...

There've been warning signs for awhile that Metrolinx had no clue how to manage the enormity of what they were trying to do, and that they were going down a mismanagement path similar to what Caltrain experienced with its modernization. The top-down management brain drain at North American...

Because it would halve frequencies to the big Sullivan Square and Malden Center bus terminals, at cascading ridership losses to the 22 affected bus routes that transfer there. And no destination on the branches would achieve better than 9-minute peakmost headways, the worst headway target on...

I think the recycling center next door at Readville that's going to be evicted for the yard expansion is already on a T-owned easement, not private land. Yard 2 was much bigger in the NYNH&H/Penn Central days than when the T rebuilt it in the mid-90's, and since that property passed intact from...

One wonders how the 28 ever had the ability to become the highest-ridership route in the entire MBTA bus system when we're told so repeatedly that every user of BHA needs a parking space and that local civilization would collapse with even 1 space's worth of reduction.:unsure: Couldn't be...

Shouldn't be an issue. The Baker tankapalooza 2019 NSRL reassessment that advocated for the 2-track South/Congress alignment said incoherently that we could eventually get 4 Purple Line tracks by building the CA/T alignment in duplicate with separate stations. Which is a ridiculous operational...

Orange also wouldn't be equal to the service of Cambridge, being a 9-minute (4.5 x 2) peak headway on a branch vs. a 3-minute peak headway on a mainline. Plus kneecapping the northern OL's frequencies including the big Sullivan and Malden Center bus terminals to the same low frequency. I mean...

You're the one with the frequently-recurring bug up your ass about the very idea of a Red-Mattapan extension causing you to go out of your way to interject it into threads time and again with made-up facts. Don't pass off your own offended sensibilities on other folks, bud.

LOL WHUT? There's been mass transit running at-grade along the Neponset from Ashmont since 1847, about 103 years longer than Storrow Drive has been around. Are you saying you want the trolley ripped up, too because of some wholly arbitrary idea of two-century old "short sightedness"?

Even the Buzzards Bay commuter rail feasibility study proposed siding lengthenings on the existing Middleboro branch because of the way meets changed with the longer running distance requiring more resilience on the track layout. Probably the Middleboro siding and the Randolph siding would've...

If that were true the speed limits would've changed line-wide instead of just on the B and C. The "vehicle availability" thing is real. 19 Type 8's out-of-service (17 long-term, 2 wrecked), and 18 Type 7's out-of-service (7 short-term, 7 long-term, 4 wrecked).

Ward Hill is actually another proposed station location about a mile and a half outbound from Osgood Landing, at the Industrial Ave. exit off 495. I actually think that one would fare a little better than Osgood Landing, being near some existing not speculative TOD at the industrial park, a bit...

$55M at 40% contingency. And they're projecting more riders than any other Haverhill Line stop for greenfield TOD. Yeah...I'm gonna say all those numbers don't wash.

The Central Corridor is so far off from being anyone's planning priority that the not-yet-built B&A Palmer station will be more than 2 decades old by the time they need to address the disconnect. I mean, that's not much different a timeframe from Middleborough/Lakeville's opening-to-orphaning...

OK, John Silber.

I much doubt they'd be able to make the finances work with the infrastructure mods required. RR.net posters who've been given BSRA tours of that tunnel say the air quality is absolutely terrible in there with everything choked in inches-thick layers of dust, plus it currently hosts vent fans...

I believe it was being considered in the initial scoping for Go Boston 2030 plan from the City, but didn't make the cut for the final report (Orange +1 to Rozzie Sq. did, though) because there were too many future-TOD dependencies that weren't totally under the city's planning thumb. It's...