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Re: North-South Rail Link People were calling it the Senate Launch System in 2011 http://www.competitivespace.org/issues/the-senate-launch-system/ https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-tumlinson/the-senate-launch-system_b_843607.html

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision There are two working prototypes of the Tesla Semi. https://electrek.co/2018/03/07/tesla-semi-first-cargo-trip-gigafactory-1-fremont-factory-elon-musk/ Even if we were to go full speed ahead with an environmental study of...

You might want to look at some of the discussion on the new and expanded highway thread I think we might want to focus on places where bicycle paths would be useful, such as I-95/113 where bicycles that have crossed the Merrimack on the new I-95 bridge may want to cross I-95 along 113 to...

Does SL1 go through any traffic lights on the east side of the harbor? I hadn't thought about signal priority for SL3 for the airport area lights until you mentioned it here, but you're certainly right that at some point they should set up transit signal priority. I get the impression that...

Re: electrification costs Do you break out overhead wire costs vs high platforms and track / signal improvements anywhere? My understanding is that when y'all were looking at electrification costs, any battery powered train technology you might have looked at as a possible alternative was...

Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/01/04/dont-run-bilevels/ discusses how dwell times are longer for bi-level coaches, which probably makes them generally not worthwhile.

Fields Corner to Arlington Center via Dudley, Ruggles, and Harvard If you use the Measure Distance tool in Google Maps to make a straight line from Fields Corner to Arlington Center, it's 9.25 miles as the crow flies and goes quite close to Dudley Station, Ruggles, and Harvard Sq. If we wanted...

If the staff of an elected official is opposing density and transit, have any advocacy groups had a discussion with that elected official (preferably citing meeting minutes with comments by that staff member and references explaining how those things the staff member is saying end up harming...

https://www.milesonthembta.com/2018/04/sl3-chelsea-station-south-station-via_21.html is a review of the route. The parts I found most surprising: (This is apparently Logan route 77 and not the MBTA 77 that goes from Harvard Sq to Arlington along Mass Ave.) But from one of the videos I saw I...

Re: North-South Rail Link In looking at an article discussing the Senate Launch System and Clipper, I found myself thinking that these space exploration projects probably cost in the ballpark of what the NSRL would. Asking either/or is probably wrong because we could probably both build NSRL...

What exactly is Tim McCarthy himself busy doing that's more important than finding ways to save time for 19,000 bus riders such that he chooses to delegate this to a staffer? Late in the first week of the pilot, could advocacy groups work with the businesses who enthusiastically support the...

They don't really address whether there would be train stations in the narrow southern part of Warren St. I believe ADA requirements say that the awful E branch stops (Fenwood Road, Mission Park, Riverway, Back of the Hill) are potentially legal if they've been that way since before the ADA...

I don't recall this for E/39, but for B/57 the argument has been that the train somehow runs slower than the bus. But if the train is going to run slower than the bus, why would you ever want to convert from bus to train at all? (And in the B/57 case, both slow fare payment on the trains and...

Re: Sullivan Square If we end up keeping the underpass in both directions at Sullivan Sq, I've gotten thinking about whether we could have a design somewhat inspired by the Diverging Diamond Interchange. My first thought was that the Rutherford underpass would get treated as the major road...

Re: Sullivan Square http://www.northeastern.edu/peter.furth/a-pedestrian-friendly-one-way-grid-for-sullivan-square/ has a 17 MPH one way signalized loop proposal for Sullivan Sq automobile traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16akm6qRiA&feature=youtu.be

Yeah, OK, getting other people out of the way does help a bit, but it's not necessarily clear if there are all that many of them. What do you mean by the former flyover?

I'm a lot more disappointed by how slowly the morning inbound bus lane is happening for the 34 relative to Everett's upper Broadway timeline than I am by excluding the afternoon outbound bus lane from the initial phase. Depending on whether you count the two days this operated in December or...

But once lower Broadway has a bus lane, what's the route from the Chelsea Market Basket to Broadway? Beacham would seem to make sense as a direct route, except that we probably can't collectively figure out that a congestion toll on the highway 99 bridge across the Mystic would be a better idea...

I think creating a new, not SL branded bus route running from the Malden Orange Line station along Ferry St, Chelsea St, Everett St, and Meridian St to the Maverick Blue Line station and then the airport terminal loop might make sense.

I think they designed this with the intention to have two extra dedicated transit lanes in the Ted Williams Tunnel, and then downsized the Ted Williams Tunnel. If we could get a bus lane on Congress St from B St (where the I-90 westbound off ramp is) to Fort Point Channel, a contraflow bus...