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Interesting. It explicitly says ``concerns about [...] the narrowness of Washington St on the approach to Dudley Station--remain''. I think that probably supports the argument that if we're going to do a future study of the options for a Green Line branch replacing SL5, the study ought to look...

early morning buses and end of night service Early morning bus service expands starting Sunday. The 3:00 to 4:00 AM full schedule is: 28 departs Mattapan 3:20, arrives Dudley 3:30, another 28 trip departs Mattapan at 3:59; 15 departs Kane Sq 3:33, arrives Dudley 3:40; 171 departs Dudley at...

One other issue with the existing highway ramp configuration is that an eastbound bus on Summer St can very easily stop at the Convention Center and then proceed to the on ramp next to the Ted Williams Tunnel (assuming the T can get permission to use that ramp). In the reverse direction...

Re: Summer St, Congress St, SL1, and SL3 In that video, it looks to me like the private property fence line is such that the road is wider at the floating bus stop than at the area after the bus stop. If you build Ari's proposal, it looks to me like the road is wide enough for the...

Yes, my assumption was that somewhere near I-90 the train would continue into the Pleasant St Incline, but I was assuming that we don't need to go into those details or the details of where the train continues to the north of Park St to discuss options for routing through the greater Dudley Sq area.

The Pleasant St Incline is a substantial distance away from where I'm proposing to have the train go over to Harrison, and Washington St has no dedicated bus lanes south of Melnea Cass Blvd so I don't know why you think a train would have plenty of space there.

People also hate waiting more than they hate spending time traveling, and I think South Station has similar distances to the airport either way around the loop. People are already happy enough waiting 10 minutes for SL1 today, so if 3/4 around the loop is only 15 minutes of bus riding time with...

F branch not quite to Dudley My current thinking is that if we want a train that roughly duplicates the SL5 bus, it should use the center lanes of Washington St from I-90 to Melnea Cass Blvd (including a stop in both directions just north of Melnea Cass Blvd), continue along Washington St to...

Summer St, Congress St, SL1, and SL3 https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/buses-not-gondolas-are-the-answer/ has some discussion of the potential for bus lanes on Summer St from about Fort Point Channel to Reserved Channel. I'm skeptical that the allocation of street space proposed there...

Kittie Knox Kittie Knox was a bicyclist from Boston; can we name a bike path after her?

I haven't been to the Boston segment of Mass Ave in a while, but Google Maps has Street View images from July and August of 2017. On the segment between about Back Street and Huntington Ave, it seems to be the case that the bike lane is consistently outside of the automobile lanes (except for...

http://amateurplanner.blogspot.com/2018/03/mass-ave-reimagined-charles-river-to.html has some thoughts on what could be done in Cambridge, and it looks way better than the status quo. Looking carefully at those diagrams has made me think we might be better off with the Harvard bound bike lane...

Do we know whether the bus lane is going to be the left lane or the right lane and whether it's going to be possible to add protected bike lanes along this stretch?

If you're concerned about damage from snow plows, maybe build heating elements into it (either electric resistance or hydronic) and get the plow operators to keep the plow blades away from it?

I'm trying to understand what's physically possible with my questions here; I'm not so focused on which organization would be responsible for carrying out improvements. I think I can figure out where to send comments about the Inman Sq intersection design, but I want to make sure what specific...

If we were only going to run one train in each direction every 6 to 7.5 minutes through the Chinatown Green Line station under Essex, could we get away with making it a single track for both directions to make it a smaller station? Is there any plausible turn from Pleasant St to Essex St with...

I was under the impression that the ADA rules say that you have to be able to get wheelchairs on board, but the ADA rules don't necessarily require that process to be eloquent, so the flip out ramp is considered good enough for basic ADA compliance even though it's so ineloquent that strollers...

At the four new bus stations, is wheelchair loading going to require flipping out the wheelchair ramp through the front door of the bus, or did they figure out how to make level boarding work? (I'd thought I'd seen a promise of level boarding at one point, but as I've been looking today I can't...

Re: Green Line to Black Falcon Terminal https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/forget-gondolas-turn-silver-line-green/ has a proposal to send some Green Line trains to Black Falcon Terminal instead of Park St. I'd like to see the Green Line to South Station connection studied as both...

And yet if you want to do something about service to the casino, how would a casino to Assembly Orange Line gondola compare to a new Green Line branch serving Sullivan, the casino, and the Chelsea busway?