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Per the Reddit thread on this article, they focused almost exclusively on quotes from one guy who is a near-legend in town for opposing anything and everything and being a viral complaint spammer. Great reporting job there, Herald News.

If he crayoned this without so much as knowing about the well-publicized Urban Ring Major Investment Study that pretty much duplicates the purpose-and-need on a much better overall alignment, it's safe to assume he wasn't knee-deep in the details of such things like how you're going to...

That's pretty much Urban Ring Phase III except for the curious avoidance of Cambridge for the Back Bay. UR III is the highest-ridership project that's ever been studied in Boston, slightly more than NSRL.

It's 14 7-car bi-level trainsets + 2 spares reserved for the World Cup, so 16 locos, 16 cab cars, and 96 bi-level trailers needed. I don't know how it compares to the storm schedules, but it's a LOT of disruption considering that other events like Red Sox home games are happening...

https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-healey-announces-summer-savings-for-commuter-rail-riders Governor announces special summer-month Commuter Rail discounts: Free Fridays, 50% monthly pass discounts, weekend interzone discounts for monthly pass holders, and $1 weekend fares for bringing 1...

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/red-line-was-rolling-its-new-tremont-street-extension-tonight So apparently there was another Red Line delivery on Thursday. 64 cars on the property now. Unclear how many near-completed cars Springfield still has left before the long Customs interregnum...

That's only needed on systems that intermix rolling stock of differing door configurations. We don't have that anymore with all our lines either having uniform per-line fleets or having uniform-fleet procurements ongoing, and we won't have that going forward with door configurations unlikely to...

If they're buying anything diesel, it's going to be a hybrid not a pure-diesel biodiesel. They're already too far in with a majority-hybrid fleet. And there's no way you'd get equivalent emissions by deleting the hybrid battery for a simpler overall biodiesel setup...one is still engine-off at...

Well, it's not going to mitigate the need to build new or heavily renovated bus garages and have the Legislature do its damn job funding that crawl-back from eons of deferred maintenance. The hybrid fleet is an emissions-control godsend and we're lucky that majority of the fleet is now...

Not necessarily. There are definitely platform screen door systems out there that are far older than CBTC signaling. Operators may need some in-car optical sensor assist on stopping position so it's accurate to the inch instead of the foot, but it shouldn't require an all-new signal system...

CTRL+F "electrification" Not Found. You sure you were actually there, Phil?:cautious:

Probably trying to cut down on the total number of sets they use by deadheading the first game-train revenue set back to Boston via a Foxboro-Mansfield-Boston deadhead to send back out a second time as one of the last sets. And then maybe the reverse sequence for the return trips. They may be...

Jon Keller is an intellectual simpleton, and always has been. There isn't a complex problem in the world to him that inside-ball political triangulation won't lick, no matter how many times he's been proven wrong again and again and again. Frankly WBZ made a stopped-clock good decision to let...

What would that change? There's like 3 halfway reputable BEB manufacturers with Buy America-compliant plants, which is why unit prices are so uniformly high. You have the same limitations of first-generation technology no matter who you buy from: poor winter charging range, consistently...

The Legislature is not exactly detail-oriented, so I have little hope that change is going to come from the top-down. The slides in the T's decarbonization presentation outline some of the problems with them making all this an unfunded mandate. Replacing the old bus garages is necessary even...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation/where-the-rubber-meets-the-road-mbta-questions-if-electric-bus-mandate-is-worth-the-tradeoffs/ The white flag is starting to wave pretty vigorously from within on the state's bus electrification mandate, with general consensus that the 2041 deadline...

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-03/2026-03-26-board-of-directors-meeting-north-station-draw-one-bridge.pdf MBTA Board to vote in Skanska tomorrow.

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-03/4.%20MBTA%20SHE%20Deck_Decarbonization%20Strategy.pdf Decarbonization update from the T Board Safety, Health, and Environmental Subcommittee. All told it's worded very bearishly. They play up the downsides to electrification, play up "cleaner...

The DEIS was published before the Vermonter's 2014 official line relocation from the Central Vermont Line to the Conn River Line (although the move was well under construction by then, so they should've marked it anyway). It was not a well-researched report. Wild crayoning guesses all around...

NEC FUTURE's Tier 1 Draft EIS, Alternatives D14 and D15, considered new HSR alignments through Worcester. Most of the MetroWest alignment went along the Sudbury Acqueduct ROW, and D14 did I-84 and the Mass Pike to Sudbury Acqueduct. They didn't live long in scoping because Worcester <...