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Not necessarily. We also don't know if the BEMU's that the T is evaluating can even take HEP power from the plug-ins at Newburyport and Rockport to keep the lights and HVAC on in the cars to spare the batteries. It would be nice if they did, because as a side effect a diesel locomotive would...

That's because the layover yards at Rockport and Newburyport will not have battery charging stations, only the existing HEP plug-in power for the lights and HVAC which isn't nearly adequate for traction battery charging. That's different from the other proposed BEMU lines, which will have outer...

Hamilton-Wenham and Manchester, though Somerville-Chelsea would be un-wired. Just finish the damn job if we're proposing to do that much. The whole Eastern Route is cleared for Plate E (15'9") freights, with actual clearance of the Salem Tunnel somewhat more than that. It will pose no issues.

4-car Type 7/8/9's. In the earliest planning that was still a far-future provisioning target to keep as a rainy-day hold, with Lechmere needing it built up-front because of that station's structural properties. 3-car Type 10's overshoot that figure enough to make it infeasible, but as noted...

You definitely wouldn't be getting petulant scenes like this if he had to sit through a primary once every blue moon:

Given that it's along I-95 through challenging geography (lots of hills and trap-rock cliffs that make even simpler projects like add-a-laneing 95 to a consistent six lanes multi-billion dollar propositions) and a lot of development that's grown up in the last 70 years around 95, not very...

That's been there for at least a decade, if not more. Most of it is off T property and on an absentee abutter's land, so no one has bothered them all this time.

The occupant of this gerrymandered abomination of a district probably doesn't care much about Quincy overall, and certainly not much about real transportation issues near and dear to the city as a whole.

Most of the rest of it is solid, straightforward, and recommended from many sides. I don't think the bypasses are practically going to happen with the opposition in very built-up parts of Connecticut and think they're hilariously underestimating the costs in those same built-up parts, but those...

There's less trash and debris along the tracks right after construction finished than in all the years beforehand under state ownership. But they care about this now?

Requires all-new rolling stock too to replace the all-new rolling stock they just ordered and which hasn't entered service yet. The Aveila power cars are rated for a maximum of 9 cars, only 1 more than the sets they ordered. So they could theoretically buy a supplemental order of carriages and...

Guardrail and cycled maintenance are not major considerations for a ruling curve radius. Guardrail is not expensive or hard to handle on maintenance, and any curve that gets enough daily reps will wear out much faster than tangent track so deferred maintenance is never an option. Pretty much...

Page 2-15 of the Phase III Draft Environmental Impact Statement details at length why combined station at the mid-block was rejected after being evaluated. No overall cost savings over the 2-station option, owing to the extremely complicated mezzanine level connecting walkways to GL-Boylston...

Except "one EMU to rule them all" is exactly what they're pitching in lieu of touching any incumbent electrification or signaling schemes. The Effective Transit Alliance, which is cross-pollinated with many of the same stakeholders as the Transit Costs Project, puts the M10 uni-design as the...

Probably a lot, because 25 kV requires twice the electrical clearance of the current 12.5 kV from overhead structures. Metro North inventoried years ago lots of overhead bridges on the New Haven Line that would conflict with a voltage change, and the North and East River tunnels feeding Penn...

Alon Levy wrote about the 16-car trains a few months ago, and went into deep detail on the required station renos: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/19/16-car-trains-on-the-northeast-corridor/ You're absolutely correct: the math doesn't add up for a legacy-system retrofit. They're...

It's not the existence of EMU's; that's duh-obvious for every member agency and should be a piece of cake if a couple laggard agencies would get on with reforming themselves. It's the "one EMU make to rule all of NY/NJ" that's a real eye-roll. They want multiple thousands of units of this...

The 4-car trains are only running at rush hour, and only from the old 01500/01600/01700-series. There are 30 active CRRC's/5 sets.

First pilot car is not due from the factory for another year-plus.

They'd punch through the fill and retaining wall on the northerly side of the Prospect St. bridge with a reinforced double-arch, then move the abutting Eversource equipment back 10-15 feet. Webster Ave. bridge is a question mark for the overall width, but the GLX tracks would be back...