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You'd probably have to do it in Providence where they have the extra platforms to stage a timed transfer. That's how the Cape Codder worked in its last season when it was relegated to a timed-transfer shuttle with a Regional (the severing of a thru NY-DC connection is what killed its...

There is not a chance in hell that Amtrak is going to divert regular Northeast Regional service away from Boston at Attleboro to a tertiary market with all the ridership that ends up losing at 128+Back Bay+South Station on the NEC trunk. Hell, even when the Cape Codder was running its piddly...

Those crossings are all un-gated with flashers-only. The T probably doesn't want the railroad insurance hit of running through that many un-gated public crossings in revenue service, especially since all of them have now long been eliminated on the Cape Flyer. The Framingham Secondary is Class...

That's exactly the case: no Providence-Foxboro trips at all, the only service offered confirmed being from South Station. Getting the trains out of the way of each other after unloading means that the idle sets are going to have to block the Mansfield direction of the Framingham Secondary...

Available numbers are lagging the rostered "active" numbers by quite a bit because of deferred inspections and repairs. There are bi-levels that've been parked in Somerville on the Cobble Hill track for months because of various ailments, and per Reddit a new string of them has appeared in...

More like robbing themselves. The T, even with the steep event tix price markup and likely sellouts, is likely to lose more money running the World Cup schedules than it would running regular commuter schedules because of all the max-length trainsets that will be out-of-commission for 4 hours...

The real Urban Ring Major Investment Study (BRT version) proposed a branch to JFK.

https://www.mbta.com/news/2026-03-09/mbta-run-four-event-trains-march-26-road-26-brazil-vs-france-friendly-match T releases its schedule for the Thursday, March 26 Brazil vs. France friendly, which is the service tune-up for the real World Cup transit strategy. As expected, running that much...

The 230 stops literally on the corner of Plain @ Hancock and also at the secondary egress driveway/grade crossing on Hancock 1 stop up. You can't get any more transit-accessible.

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/two-councilors-want-city-mbta-cancel-blue-hill-avenue-bus-lanes-use Councilor Culpepper ups the ante on trying to turf the Blue Hill Ave. bus lanes, same week as the federal funding comes through. This time he's backed away from the racism argument, and is...

Did you read the damn article before popping off yet again??? They're rebuilding the most complex set of interlockings on the entire rapid transit system. There will be temporary speed restrictions while they do so, because critical signal infrastructure needs to be taken offline while they do...

NSRL isn't replicating that. There's no room in the station caverns for Spanish-solution platforms. It'll just be a single island for the 2-track versions and 2 islands--one per bore with separated bores--in the 4-track version. Boarding/alighting, especially with people already waiting on...

This is what the NSRL 2019 reassessment says in terms of tunnel throughput for the 2-track and 4-track builds: We're going to have to revolutionize our on-time practices to even get a 3.5 minute per direction frequency, because that target is well shorter than the T's schedule padding for...

The only proposed infills in any of the studies are Palmer and Chester...and Chester is only mentioned as an afterthought in a universe where we have max-build BOS-ALB schedules. There's not a chance it goes it on the board for just the Lake Shore Ltd. or only a couple BOS-ALB slots; it's way...

They're considered extras on the schedule, so the arrival/departure times are not all that predictable. There's probably internal rules about that, since revenue collection would be pretty unreliable at scattershot schedules. Plus the assistant conductors may be officially off-shift when being...

It also needs to be said...this is not like the cost of Worcester Union Station getting its new-construction island platform that hadn't previously existed in any way, shape, or form attached to the station in over 60 years. Springfield Union Station already has 4 serviceable island platforms...

Yeah. Plus, remember, the N-S and E-W trains are going to have timed transfers to each other. You want people from Boston to be able to get more than one whack-per-day at the Valley+Vermont+Montreal, so that one-RT-a-day Boston-Montreal direct train is going to be complemented by stock Inland...

Well, you need it end-of-line for start- and end-of-day for damn sure. Overnight storage needs increase if you're doing :30 frequencies right from 5:00am. But you'll also need it for shift changes between the peak and off-peak, even when frequencies stay at a constant high level all day...

All 3 phases were funded, but construction contract for Phase 3 hasn't been awarded yet (Keolis got the Phase 2 contract). They're supposed to be doing design work for it right now, but there haven't been status updates in a very long time.

Phase 2 doesn't bring all that much above-and-beyonds for schedule management, which is why they're taking their sweet time finishing it without a ton of urgency. It's Phase 3 Norwood-Walpole that's the critical one, and once that's in place you'll be able to fully tap the benefits of Phases 1...