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Not surprising when access to the entire Inner Belt GLMF, where the E's fleet is primarily based out of, is cut off.

I have to disagree with this, especially #2, and agree with @samsongam's subsequent response here. The logic is essentially the same as "Fairmount Line definitely shouldn't be commuter rail, because it deserves HRT vehicles with ample standing room". Both are making perfection in mode choice be...

FWIW, the official name for the combined SL4/5 seems to be SL5.

While the 501 and 504 (not 503) will likely be much less necessary in a world with quality service at Newton Corner... I don't know why people are talking about scrapping the 57??? The 57 is the only bus route along most of its corridor, and even at places where it intersects with other bus...

Except that Nubian routes aren't competing with Riverside and Needham for frequency. Let's be handwavey and say any GL trunk can support 4 branches. Riverside and Needham only take up 2 of them, and chances are they won't both go to Tremont St (you probably want to send one of them to...

To clarify: Are the East Taunton short-turns operating all day or just during late night hours? The fact that both ideas (late night and East Taunton) are mashed together in the second paragraph doesn't help with the clarity.

IIRC, @F-Line to Dudley said before that the bottleneck after Bowdoin is gone would be the State St curve, but he also said it was modifiable.

I know there was a discussion a few months ago about why the T isn't running more Green Line trains to North Station. Interesting to see they were thinking of doing it at some point. Some Reddit users in that thread had speculated it was because turning trains around at North Station is more...

I know this is highly unlikely, but: What if we use this opportunity to build an egress north of Alewife? This kills several birds in one stone: It serves as an access tunnel for hi-rail vehicles, as described in the meeting description above. If you build a crossover north of Alewife as part...

Unfortunately, this has resulted in a whole mess over flights from China mainland to the US (and to western countries as a whole): Because US airlines can't operate through Russian airspace, they generally find less desire to operate more US-China flights. Because of this, US DOT is limiting...

The difference seems to be primarily for the "crossing X zones" scenario, particularly trips that do not enter downtown Boston. So a trip from Zone 4 to Zone 2 costs less than Zone 4 to Zone 1. Because of this, I think @F-Line to Dudley's interpretation of Lynn being unfairly treated is...

SL3 will likely still have a good reason to exist, and this is actually something that had been discussed a few times before. There are plenty of people from Chelsea and BL using SL3 to go directly to Seaport, where it remains the most attractive option by far compared to BL-RL-SL2. Then there...

Of course, that should be coupled with the real elephant in the room: Lower the fares on the Needham Line so that it doesn't take $6.50 to go to Roslindale with it.

BNRD does have a 15-min corridor for Quincy, in the form of shared service between the 220 and the 222. Assuming late night service only covers Frequent Bus Routes -- which is most likely what will happen anyway -- that's the only possible logistical problem. But a single corridor should still...

Every transit project pushes other projects further back. By this argument, we should build nothing. The inability to keep construction costs low is also irrelevant to the discussion for the same reasons. An expansion done at $1 billion per mile is better than no expansions at all, especially...

Gotcha, yeah I misremembered pretty badly lol. The equity concerns may have been for getting rid of the distance-based fare and replacing it with flat fare?

Agreed: As long as you're willing to do the active physical activities yourself, time savings with cycling typically outweighs transit for short trips, even with frequent transit service. This is especially true in an American context (even in urban environments like Boston) because: Due to...

I am apparently late to the discussion about distance-based fares, and I didn't read through everything in detail. (I know that sounds ironic, but my IRL schedule has been very hectic lately.) But I do want to share my experiences from Singapore when I lived there. Singapore uses an entirely...

Off-topic, but here are photos of legit "bike traffic jams" that I took in China: (Unfortunately, cars are still given priority at intersections like this. And unfortunately, most streets in China are much wider than this. It's a much more car-centric country than you may have expected.)

Considering that we've been running weekend service on bus routes that typically come from weekday-only garages (e.g. Fellsway, North Cambridge before 2022) with no problem, it should be very doable to assign 1-2 garages to run late night routes, even though with more dead mileage.