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I think we should entirely eliminate the part of Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road from the Allston Interchange to Charlesgate, and then I'm not convinced that tolling the Charlesgate to Leverett Circle section is worth the trouble, but I certainly think I-93 and I-90 inside 128 ought to have...

People who refuse to use scarce resources efficiently by adding single occupancy vehicles to roads which are shared with transit vehicles and are over their vehicles per hour capacity limit should absolutely not be entitled to waste the time of people riding mass transit who are using those same...

People seem to be saying that MassPort couldn't pay for a NS/Haymarket shuttle bus under current federal law but somehow MassPort is allowed to pay fares for boarding SL1 at the airport? Also, do people here think federal law should prohibit Logan Airport fees from paying for a free shuttle...

If the Ted Williams Tunnel is congested at rush hour, we should have a congestion toll. The question there is what transit improvements would help to get some of the single occupancy vehicle users there to switch to transit.

I suspect the key to making this work is to provide a free shuttle bus or APM from the terminals to the cell phone waiting lot, make it free to pick someone up at the cell phone waiting lot if they take the shuttle bus or APM, and charge the fee for driving directly to the terminal. (If you do...

People hate transferring, especially when they have luggage. If a Lyft vehicle can pick you up at your terminal and SL1 requires a people mover transfer, that becomes an incentive to passengers to take Lyft and increase the number of vehicles on the road.

That's an interesting idea; I think the big challenge is that it increases the number of branches, thus exacerbating capacity concerns at South Station. But converting Stoughton service to a Princeton Dinky style arrangement or only running it as an extension of Fairmount service might be a way...

I suggest finding ways to get information that the public needs to know about distributed in non-paywalled publications. If we want to have a dedicated ROW for the Blue Line to airport terminal connector, I'm wondering if we'd be better off with a busway that could be shared between the buses...

Do the current Blue Line to airport terminal shuttle buses encounter significant traffic congestion? Why not just buy some battery powered buses?

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision Pan Am and Norfolk Southern wish the Hoosac Tunnel had vertical clearance for double stack high cube containers, but haven't spent the money to make that happen. The Baltimore tunnels are in a similar situation. This sort...

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision There are countries that never had significant land line telephone infrastructure. There's no reason why land line telephone technology couldn't have worked, but they ended up skipping straight to cell phones, because of...

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision Looking at existing battery EMU trains to figure out what battery EMU trains are actually capable of might be a lot like looking up the specs of a Nissan Leaf and going to a Tesla showroom and insisting to the Tesla...

In Worcester's case, I thought the first charging station was sufficient for four buses but they got six buses, and then they decided they needed a second charging station (which I think is supposed to have been installed by now?). It almost seems like maybe Worcester thought 1/3 of their...

Would a minibus shuttle from Admiral's Hill to Market Basket end up providing more frequent service more cost effectively? How many boardings does Admiral's Hill actually get? Folks who live along Broadway along the 117 bus route north of Quigley Hospital might appreciate a one seat ride from...

I thought I'd read that there was a contract the MBTA signed with New Flyer a few years ago that includes some pure battery electric 60' buses along with some extended battery range diesel hybrids that should be able to keep the diesel engines turned off while they're in the transit tunnel, so...

The 112 should be thoroughly rethought. The Admiral's Hill deviation is probably not remotely cost effective and should probably go away. Maybe the folks on Central Ave could just walk to the Eastern Ave SL3 stop or to the 111? Quigley Hospital could be served by a Wonderland to Sullivan...

Re: North-South Rail Link I'm not sure if we really have a good thorough understanding of where inflation actually becomes a problem, but it seems that inflation may tend to be caused by resource shortages, and if that's the case, we ought to be investing in projects which will reduce the...

Re: North-South Rail Link From about the 28 minute to 30 minute mark, this video argues that the thing people often call the federal debt would be better thought of as national savings that happens to be invested in treasury bonds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHQCjFebIf8

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision Another comparison would be the unique 24 Type 9 Green Line cars with their unique truck design which might never get used anywhere else. If we can get even the low volume Type 9s, battery EMUs will have vastly more...

Converting the 60/1 interchange to a DDI is probably a fine plan; route 1 from the Tobin to I-95 in Lynnfield would probably also benefit from being rebuilt closer to Interstate highway standards, removing driveways from Route 1 where other roads can provide access, improving on ramp / off ramp...