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RR Expresses should be stopping at Allston anyway. One of the major points of the stop is to detangle downtown by diverting pax to Harvard and Kendall.

Express tracks are unnecessary for what, one possibly, two tph?Amtrak trains blast through numerous stations on the NEC every day. West station should be no different. Especially when politicians get their heads out of their posteriors and realize that LRT is the only solution for GJ

NSRL means only replacing/referring one draw, not the three planned. A much cheaper option

They will have no value in an electrified world.

The T is telling Central and Western MA politicians that W/E can't happen without SSX. This year.

And 600M is a lot for redundancy

While I agree that that SSX is not necessary, RR expects that trains are MOVING, not sitting at Widett. But that doesn't mean that the T won't keep pushing ahead. Look at the new contract for Kcars. The T will keep wasting money on diesel, and then whine that they don't have the money to...

Also, W/E is nearly all funded. Another 50M to decrease single track sections should do the job(except of course, electrification)

So, the T is planning on spending upwards of 5B on efforts to increase capacity/reliability between SS and NS SSX, Widett Circle, Southside Maintenance facility, ND drawbridge etc(yes, I know that rebuilding one draw would still be needed). If nothing else, RL would decrease run time by...

It would be pretty cheap to just fill it in.

How many freighters or barges go through daily?

Straus will never get there. Replacing him as chair, on the other hand....

Nothing is a red line if enough people oppose it.

$8 B for NSRL bad. $2B for crappy SCR phase I good? Go home, Bob!

Dont forget the Charles River shuttles

I was assuming one full capacity charge of high end battery packs(60ft buses) and charging inefficiency. Assuming that good battery longevity means never dropping below 20% and that some vehicles would not be used all day but that some may take more than one charge, it's tough to figure exactly...

So, nightly electric draw per bus is almost exactly the same as average household usage in MA. So, 125 buses would draw the same as 3+K households, if every bus operated every day and charged completely once a day.

The governor just came up with $5M for an engineering study for a Palmer train station. Holyoke built an entire station for the same money. We have gutted the project planning and management ability of MassDOT and we pay the price.

Thats $3M+ per bus extra for infrastructure! Im sorry, but that bird wont fly! And you don't have to tell me about IMC, I was lead author for TMs report on bus electrification. Most cities would kill to have the legacy infrastructure we are ignoring. Every other wired city is expanding use of...

It is much more than that for the North Shore. Lynnites? could cut their commute times in half, and have access to so many more jobs