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I'd go further and say that it's absolutely absurd to build any rail service west of Springfield that isn't going to Albany.

Can't agree. Cheap projects with good ROI + ridership numbers are exactly where investment should be directed, and if the project could actually be done for that cost/inflation-adjusted cost with that ridership, the MBTA ought to be cutting a check today to do it. Whether or not that study is...

Pre-pandemic there was Concord Coach service from Concord (via Nashua) to NYC. It was scheduled at 5h30min Concord-NYC, 4h45min Nashua-NYC. It currently remains "suspended". That said, it was only 1-2x/day each way, and was aimed at a somewhat premium market - $140-150 for a round trip to/from...

Tinkering at the margins, but: Cut the 88 (or mostly cut - not sure about the school trips), redistribute service to the 87/89/90? Inbound boardings Davis-Lechmere are going to crater with GLX. No one is going to be boarding a bus to Lechmere from Highland Ave when they could just board the...

On a monthly basis ridership was climbing slowly every month January through August, but still only at 28% of January 2020 ridership. 737k weekly riders vs 2.63m - however, that *is* still a whole lot better than the 222k it was doing in January 2021. I don't see any September totals in that...

The article doesn't mention them being able to use the shoulder. I'd certainly hope they'll be allowed, though.

So, while I'm supportive of this.....what buses actually use I-93? I see the 354, Logan Express, and one MVRTA round trip (route 99 - is their website broken or is there really only one trip a day? That seems absurd.) as the only services.

I don't think that's that fair to Newton. They've just approved some pretty major new developments at both Riverside and the Northland site in Upper Falls. And in the cast of the latter, after a town-wide vote where the locals voted in favor of it by >5000 votes. Yes, in typical Boston tradition...

If the long ramp is a problem for you, are you really walking/rolling some long distance to get to the station in the first place and not parking or being dropped off at the other (main) head-house where the drop-off area is? Theoretical riders who could use this end via foot, are going to be...

Counter argument for Newtonville - why not just a ramp down from Harvard St? (like the existing stairs) Anyone walking from the east is walking the same distance whether they walk down a long ramp and platform or if they walk another 500ft on Washington and *then* enter the station (at the...

Because there's a lot more people who primarily drive than people who primarily take the T at a statewide level, and they vote. I'm sorry, but I think it's wild fantasy land to imagine that any of this besides maybe a Boston CBD congestion charge is getting past the MA legislature, or MA...

Generally those bus on shoulder lanes are only used when traffic is moving slowly and the bus doesn't drive 70mph past the lanes of stop & go traffic. Being slightly familiar with Colorado's US-36 (Denver-Boulder) bus on shoulder operations, the bus only uses it when the general purpose lanes...

The map also has it hitting South Station, so I'll suggest that if it's going there it's probably not doubling back to then take Seaport Blvd. I think the map is just showing rough routing and not precise street/corridor choices. ------------ As a personal opinion, I also don't think Seaport...

Do you have $700m/yr in new revenue to replace fares? And if you do, can you really say the ideal thing to do with it is to get rid of fares rather than investing that $700m/yr in any of the vast number of wish-list projects the MBTA doesn't currently have funding to advance?

I'm generally of the opinion that the inverse makes more sense. Keep State open 1 lane long-term, chop up the side streets in a way to intentionally make them useless for any sort of thru trip, with access only coming from their closest major street (State, Pearl/Congress, Atlantic), rather...

To note: camera enforcement is not legal in MA currently for anything other than highway tolls. It's not a matter of the MBTA choosing not to do it, it's not legal at present.

There are some late night/early AM intercity bus trips + at least one Amtrak trip out of SS. Not sure many people are really connecting from a flight to those services, but they do exist.

Disagree to an modest extent. As thru routes, sure, you're not getting through the Big Dig without a submarine in this scenario. At least on Boston's climate maps, the Pike as it exists today would likely be passable to the Copley ramps in the 1% 2070 coastal flood or anything less, while...

I don't understand why we're discussing a lane-drop as "solution". As far as I can see it has absolutely nothing to do with the issue the feds appear to have. If the issue from the Feds is flood risk on the mainline interstate, the issue is vertical, not horizontal. The number of lanes isn't...

It also lists them as having a 61% out of service rate (failing inspections badly enough to be immediately placed out of service), which is pretty appalling.