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Do you believe double track will always be sufficient through the Newton stations and that we will never want triple or quad track?

Re: Green Line door configuration and platform lengthening I think if the T decided today that they wanted to get B, D, and E rebuilt for 225' platforms by December 2022, and tomorrow the legislature gave them money to get it done, it wouldn't be at all difficult. The Heath St VA land...

Re: Park St loop I've been assuming that as long as there's no Pleasant St Incline service, the number of trains per hour that a platform at Boylston can handle should be the same as the number of trains per hour that a platform at Government Center can handle, and if you have adequate...

http://www.archboston.org/community/showthread.php?p=310020#post310020 notes that the Blue Book reports B having roughly similar ridership to D, and C and E each having roughly half the ridership of B or D. If the goal is to run the same headways on each branch and have capacity for the current...

A three 116' car train would be 348' long. I think at least some of the platforms can accommodate that.

It looks like Proterra and New Flyer are both now supporting SAE J1772 DC plug in charging (for overnight or perhaps mid day use at a bus garage) and SAE J3105 overhead charging. (I'm not sure if the WRTA bus hub next to Worcester Union Station now has one or two Proterra overhead chargers and...

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Charges In Somerville, my residential Eversource bill includes a $.0005/kWh ``Renewable Energy Charge'' and a $.01639/kWh ``Energy Efficiency'' charge. Is that $.0005/kWh the marginal cost of getting 12% renewable energy instead of whatever we'd get by...

The existing Framingham Logan Express service only departs Logan once every half hour. Is there some trick to only booking flights that will land with timing such that you'll always get to the Logan Express bus stop a minute before the bus arrives? Adding more stops may increase ridership...

http://www.massport.com/conley-terminal/at-the-terminal/guidelines-for-truckers/ says truckers can pick up and drop off containers between 8 AM and 5 PM Monday through Friday. Does it make sense for those hours to overlap with rush hour?

It looks like SL3 is scheduled as 27 minutes each way in the weekday afternoon for the Chelsea Market Basket to South Station trip. 10 minute headways is probably 6 vehicles if the challenges with the bridge are ignored. It might be ideal for SL3 to not depart South Station if the bridge is...

If Haymarket is the focus of a Gold Line, we might almost be able to get it for $0 operational expense just by introducing bus lanes on Congress St from Haymarket to South Station and on Summer St from Fort Point Channel to Pumphouse Rd and turning SL1 into a giant one way loop airport terminals...

Right now, if you want to drop a friend off at the airport, you can either pay $0 to clog up the curbside space or $7 for an hour of short term parking. I strongly suspect there are drivers who would prefer to use short term parking and help carry their friend's checked bag to the check in...

The single track commuter rail segment paralleling the Red Line is certainly a problem in the short term, but even if we expect to end up with just a three branch Old Colony system (Greenbush, Plymouth, and Middleboro/Cape), I think we're going to need to double track the whole South Station to...

Would an hour of free Central Parking work any better? (It turns out that for 1 hour, Central Parking currently costs the same $7 that economy does; I started thinking about it in terms of trying to make the cheapest possible parking cheaper, but perhaps the better way of thinking about it is...

Re: BOSFUEL Looking at the Google Street View images of Prescott St leads me to believe that jet fuel infrastructure doesn't need to be super high security. I think jet fuel is harder to get to burn than LNG, ethanol, or gasoline. But if the priority is to handle fuel deliveries in an...

It seems like the answer might be that we should encourage people to use economy parking, which already exists and already has a shuttle bus, to meet people they want to pick up. Except that $7 for the first hour at economy parking and $0 to clog the terminals doesn't exactly provide the right...

If the goal is to maintain Stoughton service, maintain service to the existing Middleboro Station that could be extended onto the Cape, plus have Fall River and New Bedford service, the I-495 / 140 alignment isn't any worse than the Middleboro alignment in terms of number of branches we end up...

BOSFUEL http://www.aviationpros.com/article/10388352/consolidating-fuel-delivery-at-logan has some background about the Logan Airport fuel system. If you go to Google Maps and search for BOSFUEL, you'll see that the tanks are on Prescott St...

Are we going to set aside space somewhere near the Box District or Eastern Ave station that could be used for a Green Line yard if we ever have Green Line service that starts at the Eastern Ave SL3 stop, follows the busway to Market Basket, then continues along the commuter rail ROW to Sullivan?

Buying buses that are compatible with the South Station bus tunnel is a bit challenging right now; Neoplan USA promptly went out of business as soon as they finished manufacturing the last of the MBTA's 60' trolleybuses that are used for SL3, somewhere around 2005. I think the T has placed an...