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They say it wouldn't run in the winter. Just ice-free months.

From the Governor: Are we... Is the T bringing back steam locomotives? Has it gotten that bad?

Just a suggestion, but you might want to really consider why you're adding water and parks. I think there are a few possible reasons. Mostly, I think you should keep them off. One reason to put them on is highlight possible "destinations." NYC does this. Basically only NYC does this. I mostly...

I'll throw out a crazy transit pitch, just out of curiosity. At some distance northwest of downtown, it could make sense to branch the Red Line. There are relatively dense suburbs that would benefit from rapid transit, but maybe don't require 3 minute headways. What about splitting the Red Line...

Good point. Looks like the T's measure of dwell time per passenger went down 23%. Basically, I think they're saying absolute dwell times stayed about the same, but all while ridership on the 28 went up 38%. I'd say that's still a big win, but slightly different than what I was saying before...

Do you know offhand what percent of bus riders transfer to/from the subway system-wide? The 32 is exactly the one I was thinking about with a high transfer rate, but I don't think that high transfer rate is uncommon. It's probably the case for a lot (or most) of the buses terminating at Alewife...

Everything you're saying is why I'm starting to conclude that we should just make the buses free. We already have a lot of people not paying, with no plans to stop it. You could put tap-to-pay readers at the back door, but you'll still get a lot of fare evaders. And I don't want bus drivers...

Do you have some thinking on which parks and water you're including and why? This sounded like a good idea, but I'm getting warry. Some parts look alright, but I'm starting to think the parks especially are distracting detail.

Thanks for that. That presentation from 2021 seems to address everything I was just complaining about, so I'm glad to see someone in city government was working on it. But three years later it's really disheartening to see this in their proposed timeline:

I've been in DTX with folks who didn't even notice that that stretch of Washington is supposed to be for pedestrians. Once I was there with friends from out of town and they asked why I was walking in the middle of the road. Once, soon after walking together through DTX, a family member asked if...

I still disagree a bit. Investors are also allowed to put their money into bad ideas, and again, maybe they prove us wrong. It's only a grift or a con if these guys are lying to investors, but really, they seem to be pretty forthright even on the limitations of the project. They show the speed...

I agree this isn't a good idea. But just giving them the benefit of the doubt.... are you sure this is a grift? That seems harsh. I don't see any nefarious history about these guys. It seems like they're actually building a prototype boat. They're clear on their website how slow this will be (67...

Am I reading you right that the Bayside Trail is a landbanked rail ROW? Like, they could restore a whole line from the current main line up to Tukey's Bridge? I know you're trying to solve a bunch of other problems with your proposal there, but it would be really great to be able to move the...

I think part of the difference is these are different kinds of trains services with different goals. New Bedford is commuter/regional rail, while Greenfield would be intercity rail (basically, Amtrak). The point of commuter/regional rail is get people around the metro area day-to-day. That...

When I think of a no-expense-spared tunnel through Portland, I put the station in median of Franklin Street, right at Congress. Connections to city busses right outside. Move the intercity bus station to be on top of the train station, and they'd have easy access to 295. Trains could run in a...

Starting with bus service could make sense because it's so much cheaper. But just a couple of points in favor of just starting with rail: Even in the cheapest rail option in that study, the time from Greenfield to Boston would be competitive with driving (2:35 by rail versus an average 2:10 for...

That says they want to keep open the option to run east-west services through the new station, too, I guess along the line to Westbrook. But, really? That sounds pretty far fetched. The only new service I've ever heard proposed is to Lewiston/Auburn, but that's north. (Tangentially, did...

Yeah, what we're getting is clearly vastly superior. But this tower plus the next couple of planned phases will add 895 parking spaces. That's obviously less than 1700, but still a kind of absurd thing to build on top of our biggest transit hub.

Just for reference, the decorative cladding went up March last year, and people on this forum noticed it was taken down on April 4, 2023. So they've already been trying to fix this for well over a year. That's surprising it would take so long. As someone who knows nothing about this kind of...

Here's a service disruption I'm ok with! Ferry service might have minor delays today because of a young humpback whale in Boston Harbor. https://x.com/MBTA/status/1823735432162443412