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As far as I know, Amtrak can not operate commuter service as Amtrak. I don't understand why you would do this anyway.

Note that when Amtrak ran the Commuter Rail, it was not doing so as Amtrak, but as a contracted operator to the MBTA... Plenty of precedent for states paying out-of-state agencies to run services into their states (including the whole RIDOT-MBTA relationship, and also the CDOT-Metro-North...

Right now, the MBTA has a credit rating of Aa1; I would have to imagine a post-bankruptcy MBTA would be substantially worse, unless literally all the debt was taken over by the state or by the reformed agency. Changing the MBTA's district has been done before, so I'm not sure why it would...

Shove more costs onto the towns, who will then beg the state for more aid- one might as well just go to the state directly.

The issue with this is that you lose not only the Boylston street stops, but also essentially all of downtown, except for Charles... whereas a Blue Line extension would be able to stop at State and Gov't Center. You also now have three lines serving Charles/MGH, which seems unnecessary. I think...

Re: T construction news I have to admit, there are benefits to the asphalt strip school of station design- I know the fences are there for safety, but it is nice to be able to enter the platform area from anywhere on the street. (Of course, I usually use Sutherland Rd., which is at least...

I thought the Green Line ran under the Common in that area?

My understanding is that the trackless trolleys in Cambridge exist for two reasons: 1) to reduce fumes in the Harvard bus tunnel (which can't handle CNG buses at all), and 2) left-hand doors (which is tied into 1). Since neither of these constraints exist in Dorchester or Roxbury, I'm not sure...

Why the holdup with waiting for RIDOT? I can't imagine there'd be that much demand for transfers with how limited SLE's New London service is.

The problem is ideology- the Republicans have never been the party of "more, better-run public services" (you wouldn't expect them to be), and when it comes to private-sector solutions, the privatized part of the MBTA (MBCR) is just as bad as the rest of it. This is a situation where the...