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A few months ago, Poftak broached the subject of buying electric locomotives. http://brookline.wickedlocal.com/news/20170320/mbtas-green-line-trolleys-could-be-totally-replaced

Re: Amtrak / Regional Rail Discussion Thread It's hard to imagine Northampton getting more than the 3-per-day Amtrak service prescribed in the NNEIRI (Vermonter, BOS-MTL, NHV-MTL). It shouldn't be totally unrealistic for MA to work something out with CT after the NHHS initial launch to extend...

Re: Amtrak / Regional Rail Discussion Thread Amherst-Northampton PVTA bus service runs frequently, further obviating the need to provide direct rail service to Amherst.

Re: North-South Rail Link Thanks. I wasn't sure if the idea was to have a layover yard right next to the station where the parking lot is or to build it some place farther up the line.

Re: North-South Rail Link Where exactly is the yard space near Anderson RTC?

In the most recent FMCB meeting PDF dump, there was an item called "Rail Vision". http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/Board_Meetings/I.%20%20Rail%20Vision.pdf They are doing a 2-2.5 year, $2m study to model different service scenarios. It pays lip service to looking at RER, S-Bahn...

Ridership on the Fairmount Line has tripled since 2012: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/26/fairmount/p9V0krkJUAQZidBAtUIl4K/story.html?event=event25#comments

Which as it happens, is underway: http://www.tricommunitygreenway.org/maps

Is the Watertown Branch ROW wide enough for light rail and the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway to coexist?

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Bait-and-switching the Middleborough/Lakeville TOD would be a great future talking point for anti-TOD NIMBYs throughout the metro Boston area.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail I can assure you that approximately 100% of posters on this board have misspent a significant chunk of their lives looking at maps.

The Belmont Community Path recommendation report is coming out soon. http://belmontonian.com/news/community-path-feasibility-study-winding-down-recommendation-in-april/ Lots of presentation docs are available here...

The MBTA is talking about cutting all weekend commuter rail service. A terrible, bad, no-good idea and a complete step in the wrong direction. If ridership sucks, we must cut service instead of asking if ridership sucks because service levels are poor. (Nobody seems to know exactly what...

Thanks. It looked grim on satellite view, but I wasn't sure if there had been recent improvements that had occurred since the satellite snapshot was taken. In any case, the Winthrop-Boston gap is big and even when this "Clippership Connector" is completed, there's a short but significant gap...

What is the status of the path between Winthrop St and Boston Ave? Google Maps shows a gap there as well.

Re: North-South Rail Link IT'S HAPPENING And by "IT", I mean an RFP for a study to determine if a more extensive study is needed.

Ari Ofsevit wrote a blog post detailed a proposed solution that uses the money that would no longer needed for the interlocking to create two platforms and a station overpass that includes an extension across the Pike to create a nice pedestrian link in the neighborhood, on top of increasing...

The Auburndale station redesign seems to be going great! http://framwormbta.weebly.com/blog/proposed-auburndale-station-redesign-would-destroy-train-schedule https://amateurplanner.blogspot.com/2017/02/good-intentions-bad-plans-and-7-million.html

The Boston Cyclist Union is pushing this design for Inman Sq:

Re: North-South Rail Link Someone who knows more about railroad ops will correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is the #1 benefit of the NSRL isn't even the North Side connections to SS, BBY, et al, or that it takes pressure off the GL and OL (though those are both big bonuses) but that...