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You're not wrong that by procurement rules it would have been very improper - but I'd say it was largely inexperience at bidding in the US and the western world generally, and thus at preparing the paperwork and less their technical ability to deliver a trainset that would have worked for the T...

The below press releases contain substantially the same information; the piece I'm following most closely is how it'll impact the charles. They claim that this will circulate 24-49 million gallons daily - thats a lot of water that will be returned to the Charles colder than it was. I realise...

Notably however, Chicago's ex CSR CRRC plant is the one managing to deliver cars - Between Sept 2024 and August 2025 they've delivered 124 cars, for a rate of 10+/month. CNR was better at getting orders (SEPTA, LACMTA) but the Springfield plant has been lucky to produce 4-6 a month (2-3 Married...

That perspective is particularly muddy in places like Camberville though. As much as they are cities, they're also transitional - they span the urban / suburb divide. One town out, Belmont, Arlington and Miltons etc, are definitely suburbs. But until recently the same could be said of the "inner...

More to this point, its also not on the incredibly constrained UPenn/HUP Campus. The more apt comparison would be to the recently completed HUP Pavillion, which is no particular stunner from many angles.

Although, CTA's board voted in June this year to extend and reindex their options - they had a cost estimate done such that that all-new procurement of 9000 series cars would run the CTA ~$4.2M per car, with the reindexed CRRC options being 1.5M + 1.2 for ~$2.7M. Based on the transcript, it...

Commonwealth Pier, in the Seaport- the mosaic is relatively new, as it was only installed this summer. https://maps.app.goo.gl/jGS2mE8ChW6jfjVV6?g_st=ac

I mean, I would point out that safety inspections are generally relatively rare nationally, if common in the Northeast - even CT doesn't require it, even as they still do emissions inspections. I imagine that any attempt will draw a commerce clause challenge.

I also know this street well, and you've also already got this down the street and this around the corner, and the site is kitty corner to CRLS and effectively on Broadway. It's larger than what was there, but not really out of character with what should be there. If it were something more akin...

Oddly enough, this might be better directed to Reddit - I believe one of the managers for these passenger info screens is a regular poster on the r/mbta sub.

Here I'm going to reach for the ca1993 FEIS plans for the Zakim. BSG was originally going to have a fully signalized direct connection to Rutherford on the site of the existing City Square Tunnel ramps. The original plan for this area called for filling in the Millers River basin, which got this...

Err, I kinda doubt that this set will be particularly representative of what we should expect in NEC service, if they're bringing this up here for performance benchmarks? The Cascades sets are pure diesels, without the pantograph or aux power cars. What could they accomplish with it, other than...

yea Ive posted about this before - Massachusetts has 351 municipalities compared to 412 in Florida, 138 in Virginia or 552 in North Carolina - in turn, they have 6, 4, and 7 times the area of MA. Some land uses are less controversial- a community is unlikely to oppose a new fire station. But say...

Please see below from the dedicated thread. Unfortunately your hopes are likely in vain.

There's a subtle but inportant difference in what I feel neoclassical architecture can message. Either you're using the built form to celebrate grecian democratic values, roman republicianism, or to convey dominance and power, calling back to the height of the Roman Empire. Not to prove Godwin's...

Even so, that reflects a year of delay - the last internet archive copy of the page from July signposted a Fall 2025 completion.

Here's a different crazy pitch take... what if we build SCR phase 2 (with full double track through the hockomock), then unload one of the OC branches from the OC mainline? Doing SCR phase 2 properly is still going to be less invasive than trying to shiv another track through Quincy, so I'm...

Erm, not to be pedantic... but wouldn't the "autonomous" part of this imply that there isn't a ride along tech? I would assume they're sitting in an office waiting for data to be sent back via a celluar connection - I've figured these are basically equivalent to the autonomous geometry boxcars...

If you'd like, the first 20 or so pages of the presentation to the Historical Commission covers the issues - from the outside it looks OK, but structurally even to a layman its a hot mess. They'd basically have to rebuild it from the inside out, which they still might have to do - despite...

Back before Historical Commission a couple of days ago with some modifications - stood back from the property line slightly (8ft vs 5ft), increased chamfers and stepbacks, resulting in a “certificate of appropriateness with a condition.” Apparently such minor changes to the square footage are...