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Given the lengths that were gone to to get the highway torn down, I'd imagine there'd be a storm of outrage at the prospect of even a much-lower-impact elevated anything going in there. Kind of a shame, to be honest, it'd be a decently place for something like Disney's monorails (which are...

I'm not a lawyer (I usually add that disclaimer, but clearly forgot last post, my bad) so I don't know specifically. That said, you can't just sue because you feel like it (well, at least, not if you want to win). The contract will have terms and conditions of what CRRC is obliged to deliver...

MTOW's a reasonable if imperfect proxy, because aircraft are frequently not operated at MTOW (operating empty weight, OEW, is closer to fixed, with the weight of a loaded aircraft somewhere between OEW and MTOW at takeoff, and decreasing thereafter as fuel is burned). That said, you're right...

I'd imagine that, subject to any relevant contractual provisions, the most they'd be able to do is to extract penalties for late, shoddy work, not to mention make CRRC fix them on their dime such that they work to specification (i.e., fix any of the results of shoddy work under warranty). Lousy...

For the most part, I think not. One of the (weaker) arguments against the millionaires tax ballot initiative last fall was that the funds it would raise that were ostensibly earmarked for education and transportation could be put to other purposes by the General Court. There may be some state...

Agreed, though I think there is some added value in being able to point to the smaller-ticket improvements, both in demonstrating their value and that they're capable of being implemented. Things from smaller to larger, like Boston's expansion of bus lanes, Cambridge's expansion of bike lanes...

I mean...that doesn't solve many if any of the problems I mentioned. I don't see how it's functionally possible to only charge MA drivers, who are the only people the state has income tax info on (theoretically, because there's plenty of people who can drive who don't necessarily have to file...

Huh. Either the thought of a possible Washington Street connection was there at some level that early, or the project was even more monumentally stupid than I thought. There is no universe in which tunneling down Essex is unambiguously a good idea given how narrow it is, even if we assume for...

Wasn't there a thread around here somewhere documenting the literal years it took for them to replace the maps at Park Street prominently showing Government Center as closed for renovation long after it had reopened? They have a habit of doing stuff like this. It is a good question - albeit...

F-Line has a thorough accounting of its demise...somewhere around here. (I'm not in the mood to engage with the search function at the moment, but I'll link to it if I come across it.) As I recall from that, Phase III died because of the cost considerations. The tunneling under Essex (as BRT...

Okay, let's re-phrase my critique. You're correct that a collective belief that the toll money would actually be used to make transportation systems better is a necessary condition of and for implementing a scheme like this. What it isn't (and why that's not really a rebuttal as such) is a...

Uh...I didn't know that, but I think the answer's yes...now that I've looked it up. Though that was BRT, and you're correct that parts of the existing Tremont subway (especially between Park and GC in the stretch between the Suffolk building and the Parker House), are nearly as narrow as Essex...

But that doesn't change the fact that what you call incentives aren't necessarily fungible behaviors for all involved. Changing residential location isn't necessarily a simple matter. Some locations are too expensive for many, some of them have lousy services, some of them have lousy schools...

That section of Tremont is quite a bit wider than Boylston/Essex where Silver Line Phase III was supposed to go. That was at least theoretically possible, albeit expensive and painful tunneling (with a lot of the expense coming from underpinning the ancient GL/OL stations that thing would have...

How odd. On my first trip on the branch, which was the 21st, they stopped at every station and opened the doors, inbound and outbound. I don't recall if there were passengers boarding/alighting at all of them, so I can't say for sure that they weren't technically in the "Stop Request" policy...

I mean, you might have a point if the proposal is "tax the suburbanites". (I'll be clear, I don't actually know what the impacts of such a policy would look like, though if I take a data-free guess, I'd wager it might not be quite so awesome.) If it's "put usage taxes on all the inside-128...

Map says South St. I'm talking about the old stone arch bridge near the Arboretum, because the original post I was responding to was talking about quad-track width to Roslindale Square (and in my opinion the stone bridge is triple-track at most). Re-reading my post, I think I should have been...

The Needham ROW is (at least) triple-track width as far as Roslindale station (from the Google map it doesn't look like there's really starting to be any meaningful width constraint until near the Walworth underpass behind Fallon Field). The only structure anywhere near the station on the north...

Huh, and right after Baker leaves office, too... :rolleyes: :ROFLMAO:

It's definitely been bumpy, but not to the level of either of those Green Line lemons, the Boeings in particular. That said, Green had the befit of an existing fleet (PCCs for the Boeings, Type 7s for the Bredas) capable of at least filling the gaps when things went badly wrong (particularly...