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"Traffic is free-dumb; transit is tyranny." -- Libertarians 🤡

That would require wading into the recently-excised Libertarian Rantings thread to find the source reading material from a noted sourpuss reporter who's almost always wrong. It exists...but no, I wouldn't recommend putting in the effort.

Brattle Loop doesn't have any plans. The curve is within the vehicle tolerances of the Type 10's (it's 1 ft. greater than Park loop, which also isn't being modified), and the platform segment inside the main station is already accessible. I also *think* the accessible platform is already long...

The RFP was for up to 226 cars, so they have plenty of options on the 102-car base order. The goal is to eventually make all peak trains 2 cars, but obviously most of the system is not going to be ready for that at the start so the base order is only for the essentials. Plus the old cars have...

Financing of the project spread out the bills across many CIP fiscal years, including deferred money. That's typical for most large-cost projects. For example, I lost count of how many "Commuter Rail bi-level" line items are in the document. A lot of them are for vehicles long since...

It's not a rational concern at all where they had the trolleybuses, and where they played the aggressor saying the cities can't have nice things like road reconfigs if the wires didn't first come down. Cambridge didn't do anything to make their planning lives a living hell; they did this to...

Yeah. Mixing radials and circumferentials within one route rarely works well, and usually underperforms pretty significantly on ridership because of skipping the core the radial riders disproportionately want to get to. Alon Levy has written a lot about that over the years, and still is still...

How often does that happen, though? Most of the route system today follows the same exact trolley wires that were in place on those routes over a century ago. Even the BNRD isn't touching most of them. And given that wires in a discontinuous charging system would only appear on very frequent...

This extreme a level of resource reallocation really underscores how little operational flexibility the T has for everyday Commuter Rail ops. Basically anything systemwide that is not a conventional end-to-end local running rush-hour size sets is completely decimated by the mass equipment raid...

It's rude not to give credit to the libertarian Substack you plagiarized this from. :cautious:

oH nOeS wErE tOo StUcK tO tHe FeDeRaL tEaT gUyZ!

You're arguing with a not-very-bright libertarian who sees social services and public investment as a bad thing. Tech-bros-run-amok and hollowing out the West Coast cities is a feature, not a bug, to him. It's not supposed to make sense; it's dogma.

Science and education is a scam, yo. 🤡

Ah, yes, the animal known as square #6.

Staffing and staff structure are the biggest reason they can't/haven't upped weekend frequencies even though some lines like Providence are producing very high per-train weekend ridership. Crew boards at Metro-North and LIRR have way larger flex shifts for weekday off-peaks and weekends...

Hmm.

Yep. CSX has already put out to bid third-party shortline operators for the extremely marginal Waterville-Augusta and Bangor-Bucksport branches, with 1 interested party filing a proposal and some new transload business planned for the formerly out-of-service Bucksport Branch. It's an extra...

Yes it does. They have a transload in Island Pond, VT. Although as SLR is a largely 3-day-a-week operation, CSX doesn't do a lot of interchanging with them compared to the levels Pan Am did, opting to reach Vermont through other higher-volume interchanges like NECR. CSX is all about...

That's incredibly, *incredibly* wishful-thinking thus far unsupported by any shred of evidence. Believe me, RR.net has had foam-drenched discussions going about this almost continuously for all of its 22 years of existence...and *no one*--including the actual CSRR employees who liberally post...

The Mountain Division is a foamer fantasy, not a real-world consideration. An express bus down ME 25 can link Westbrook perfectly well, there's virtually nothing between Westbrook and the state line that would draw flies, and there isn't a freight revenue tag-team to underwrite costs. In a...