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The last feasibility study projected 60 riders per day, so I smell a big waft of B.S. on the projections. Regional Rail increases ridership, but it doesn't take dregs-of-the-system stations and turn them into Top 10'ers instantly. West Cambridge (I can't in good conscience call this thing...

"We have no short-term memory of the last several studies that showed almost no ridership for an Alewife Commuter Rail station that's laughably far askew from the Red Line station, so we're just going to light some more money on fire to study again until we forget about those results too in a...

Assuming an electrified Purple Line, they'd presumably switch to E-mode at Worcester Union Station. But power-switching is hardly flawless. Grand Central and Penn deal with that on a weekly basis with the fast-aging Genesis P32AC-DM dual-modes not switching when they're supposed to switch and...

Enclosed spaces are a pain-in-the-ass for RR operations. Even in a fully electrified future you want considerations for a diesel rescue loco or diesel service substitution for overhead wire maintenance to be able to access the station. We don't want a situation where complex and draconian...

Again...how do you know the exact circumstances of the accident? Could they have been out on the pavement when it was safe, and then the plow came pinning them into a restricted space? If you can't cite anything real to back up the charge, you're just smearing people for no reason. YOUR lone...

How do you know they didn't? Accidents can happen in close proximity, especially when safe walking areas are heavily constrained by all the snow. It's on you to substantiate these vibes-presented-as-facts with something real! Evidence! News reports! SOMETHING! Your schtick is getting very...

Yeah. It's been a shitshow of a rollout for reasons that have little to nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with incompetent queue management meeting extreme weather causing long, backed-up lines in said extreme weather. With Commuter Rail service taking its own body blows...

Prudent vehicle renewal is an underrated one. If you don't have so many old, falling-apart trains day-to-day taxing the shops with constant nuisance repairs and needing to press Everett Shops into fabbing no-longer-made parts, you reduce annual maintenance quite a bit while increasing topline...

Please provide a specific media citation for alcohol being involved in the Belmont incident during the storm. It must be hiding under a rock somewhere only you seem to know where, because none of the post-accident reports said it was anything other than a car getting stuck. Unless you're just...

Same deal this afternoon. CRRC availability this week seems to be at a hard cap of 36 cars, which they're just fileting to stretch the fleet. There's 2 6-car and 1 4-car set's worth of "active" cars AWOL at Cabot for those backed-up warranty repairs, about 30% of the rostered fleet. The...

Loco and front-most Amfleet derailed. Passengers were moved into the other cars, rescue loco was sent to the scene, rear cars were uncoupled from the derailed pair, and passengers were brought back to Brattleboro for shuttle buses. NECR switcher and a couple hi-rail re-railing trucks from R.J...

14 Red Line trains running now, after they tried (and mostly failed) to get by on only 9 for the PM rush yesterday. So...yay...the apocalypse is still awful but somewhat less than total today? CRRC's have been floating 40-50% of the schedules today, as all 3 classes of old cars are completely...

Second F40 rebuild out of the Rochester paint shop in a heritage scheme: this time the NYNH&H. The RR.net rivet-counters absolutely hate how the font came out, but I can't tell the difference.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-kathy-hochul-137 New York State deep-sixes the plan to extend a Metro-North trip from Poughkeepsie to Albany. Will instead restore all temporarily-reduced Amtrak Empire service trips in March, as well as restoring the Maple Leaf and...

I've been watching the TransitMatters train tracker periodically throughout the afternoon. Red's only been running a maximum of 12 sets (one of them a 4-car set) ever since the huge service meltdown this A.M., including 12 right now at the height of P.M. rush. 6 CRRC sets, 4 Bombardier, 1 set...

This prophecy seems to be coming true now. :( TransitMatters live tracker shows half of the line's load is being taken up by the CRRC's right now and overall service levels have taken a steep hit due to lack of availability of the older cars. There's only 1 set of 15's/16's/17's...

The weight load was what put the building at risk of collapse, with the cantilevered balconies posing the most immediate risk of falling down. Evacuating the building of all its people and their belongings helped reduce the overall weight load to a metastable level, and the balconies were the...

Curves make that hard. While the B&A doesn't have many sharp curves in MBTA territory it does wave around almost constantly throughout MetroWest meaning even the express trains are going to be in curve restriction recovery time a large percentage of the time. Most of the travel-time savings...

There was enough snow on the road at 4:00am that getting outright stuck on the crossing was an extremely probable event. Look at how much snow is piled up ^between the tire treads^ on the road. That's barely passable.

After the Bussey Bridge Disaster in 1887 there was enough widespread panic about the condition of numerous flimsy-construction bridges that the Boston & Providence RR (and later NYNH&H) for awhile made an ostentatious show of doing overbuilt stone railroad structures to restore public confidence...