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Any station need to be much further beyond the Mystic River bridge to meet regulatory requirements. The bridge approach is about 3% grade, and you need to get down to 2% nominally for an ADA compliant CR platform. More likely siting is near Sweeter Circle, or perhaps around the MBTA Everett...

Exited an Acela at about 4:30 today at South Station, with eTix up on my phone ready. All gates on my platform were open. There was a Commuter Rail boarding at the next berth as we exited, and given the cross traffic crush at the limited gates, it was nice to see them open.

I may be wrong, but I don't believe the construction underway is the hotel. It is the Holocaust Museum, which replaces the faux colonial red brick building in your renderings (at the corner of Hamilton Place and Tremont).

The problem with all the sites along the river is they are all superfund sites. That is the big barrier to redevelopment. These are not clean waterfront development sites. Most commercial uses don't have big enough returns to pay for the environmental remediation. Only a few uses (like a...

True, but the buildings on the site are currently red brick (old parts of Mystic Station and the Mystic Pumping Station). That industrial red brick look has a significant history on the site. (Others have proposed trying to save part of the Mystic Station red brick facade). Not suggesting...

Overpaying is a relative term. Speed and timeliness is one of the things you pay more for in construction (and most projects). A low competitive bid that takes 3 years to complete is inherently worth less to the T ( and the State and taxpayers) than a higher bid that can be completed in time...

All US offshore wind farms go through site vetting by DoD as part of the site approval process. There is a formal DoD Site Clearinghouse of vetted locations that are cleared for wind development based on minimal risks to aviation, radar and sonar coverage. Every location being put on hold has...

I wonder if the MBTA categorizes this as "preventative" maintenance.

I still get the feeling it was assembled from Lägenhet och Balkong modules from IKEA.

Good example of the design life of a cast in place concrete tower is the Eastgate Tower formerly in Kendall Square. Eastgate was even younger than the Logan Control Tower (circa 1966), but the evaluation of the retrofit and upgrade costs versus replacement led to its demolition and replacement...

Did they run a contest to see who could make a (usually pretty ugly) parking garage even uglier?

Certainly was not a hard flight for Cape Air to cut!

I am assuming from the shading shown that is all on the mechanicals screen, about a floor above the top of the penthouse. It will be pretty bright on that penthouse balcony though!

Looks like they might be reverting back closer to the original 2020 proposal. Smaller units, more one bedroom units, single story base. This is the second change (last one in 2021 went from 6 stories to 7 with more two bedroom units).

I agree that to do predictive modeling you need quality data. Even with reasonable quality data, data cleansing is typically 90% of a modeling effort. But the fact that the T collects pretty crappy data points to a bigger issue. First rule of performance improvement in operations is you can...

I would bet that there are patterns in the historical data to suggest how frequently to run a short turn train. That could be used to program short turns rather than the surprises. Proactive rather than reactive operational planning.

But my point is the bait and switch of changing the destination on a train while it is in service with passengers. And as I indicated I was headed inbound on the C train that change from Government Center to Park as a destination after Arlington. That is the kind of call a competent...

I have a question about schedule adjustments on the Green Line, specifically schedule adjustments that change the end destination of a train that is already underway with passengers. Three times over the Thanksgiving weekend I had Green Line trains make schedule changes while underway...

I don't understand the logic of neglecting the South End, Fenway, Symphony areas from the congestion zone. They are every bit as congested as the above areas.

The EU standards for high platforms only came into being in 2002 [TSI (Technical Specifications for Interoperability) on 30 May 2002 (2002/735/EC)]. Even those standards only apply to high speed rail operation (to try to enable interoperability among the member states).