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I mean, it's technically possible. Street seems to be about 60' wide at its narrowest with 8' sidewalks on either side that could be mildly cannibalized if an extra foot or two is needed. Huntington where the E line runs is 80' and that seems to be the T's limit on streetcars (though I do seem...

Spitballing some routes here: North Side SL3 Branch - Instead of converting this to a Green Line branch, tie this into the Blue Line and have more incentive to extend further into Everett owing to more connectivity than the SL3 can provide. Tunnel under any parts of Broadway you have to, but...

Interesting. I wonder if there's any real benefits to be had to reverting the Blue Line back to its Trolley roots if it means no drop in capacity (assuming similar throughput of vehicles). Perhaps the ability to more easily branch on either end? Any ROWs that could take more advantage of light...

But it is provisioned for a third and fourth track, similarly to Westwood/128. The outside of the two platforms can easily have tracks placed down, transforming the side platforms into islands. That's why all of the access footbridges above go out so far. At the very least there's nothing here...

I'm seeing everything (or, at least, most of everything).

How many of the old Orange Line cars are even still available for service? I thought they'd been sold for scrap (though obviously not all taken off property yet).

It seems like it is, but can anyone confirm if this was built with 4-tracking of the NEC in mind? I.e. placing additional tracks on the outside of the new platforms.

I think this presentation lays it out. Specifically:

Isn't it because there were more than 100 of the 1200 series, so their naming schema went up into the 1300s? Seems silly, but that would make sense. Similarly, the next series would be the 1600s, right?

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Lechmere to Union was super slow the one time I've taken it, and that was months ago, but I don't think it was 25 minutes slow. Are we dealing with variable delays for some reason? Is testing the Medford branch slowing down Union Square trains because they're making sure signals are working...

What do you mean "how"? They'll fix the bridge, possibly be redesigning some elements to better support the broken welds. The only real question is how long we're going to be stuck with a "temporary" bridge. What's the record for the longest time a bridge was supposed to be temporary but was...

There also doesn't seem to have been any movement on the Transit Matters data dashboard in the past few days. So they removed a few slow zones late last week, but haven't done anything since then. EDIT: Needless to say this is unacceptable. The MBTA shut down a line used by hundreds of...

From the project site: Replace the existing signal system Upgrade switches, tracks, and power systems Address settling that has occurred at switch points Replace generators to support power loads required by today’s equipment So no track changes it seems. Which is a shame, since I'm sure...

Until the next shutdown in a year or two.

You're thinking of this, which was between Back Bay and Mass Ave. Though that one does look like it worked to help outbound riders save a good bit of time:

It looks like they're not planning on addressing the slow zone between Back Bay and Tufts. Isn't that a pretty notorious slow zone?

This state's inability to just put paint down on the road to tell you these things never fails to boggle my mind. Even on major roads sometimes it's a crapshoot as to how many lanes there are, let alone where they are.

Wait, so in a single day they were able to fix a speed restriction that's been in place for 6 years?

Update on Portals location: I'm not sure this is as possible as I was thinking. Basing things off the B and C portals, we'd want ~500 feet of travel to get down to the right depths. That's just not possible without major rework on either end. On the south end, you'd have to start your portal...