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$150. So for all you single ticket holders, you're getting a great deal by taking the T. For everyone else, it's a wash at best.

Kind of disappointing that most staggered stops have been replaced by aligned stops. Also for a 'Consolidated Fairbanks Ave/Brandon Hall' that sure looks a lot like the exact spot Brandon Hall currently is...

So then I think a fun design challenge is how can you build quality urban space around a highway or highway-like road. Obviously a road diet is the easy design/hard political choice, so what's the opposite? How far can you get with footbridges, decking, sound barriers, etc?

And people also want leaders who don't just... abandon their platform when a minority (that voted for the losing candidate no less) complains. Essaibi-George and Kraft ran significantly if not primarily on pausing bike/transit project expansion in favor of car drivers, and lost. It would be more...

No that's a separate line item.

Proposed 2027-31 CIP is up (PDF download warning)

I know and I hate it but it's a deliberate choice, the 104 stays reasonably close to the SL3 all the way from Everett Sq to Airport, only about 5 mins max of walking except for Box District which is like 10 minutes away. Then again, this map lies about the 116 at Bellingham Sq, it's actually a...

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Without the full CIP I don't know that it's possible to draw a definitive conclusion but from the slides it doesn't look any worse than the past couple CIPs, if anything it actually looks a bit better.

Fun fact, SL3X is really hard to put on the map.

I can't agree more (and not just because of the map). Art on transit is something I'm incredibly passionate about. People rejected the bland and flat functionality of functionalist modernism for a reason, we like to be in beautiful and pleasant spaces and exposure to art and architecture is a...

Is there a different document with other service plans? The 2003 EIS shows no Dudley-Boylston short turns.

bigger arrows?

Well I shouldn't have said that. Point still stands though.

Yes and no. There was (and still is) a lot of BRT that is more just an enhanced bus service with better branding, the term I've heard and quite like is 'BHLS' (Bus with a Higher Level of Service) but that is obviously more clunky than BRT. There was and is willfull, if not lying definitely...

But again, put it into the context of Phase 3. Travel time from Tufts-South Station would have been 3-4ish minutes, and that's with the good South Station/Silver Line transfer. And even today, the street section between Tufts and Nubian is not meaningfully slower than the B branch. (About 10%...

It's always worth remembering that it wasn't intended to be this way. BRT Mania, poor planning, and bad project management brought us here. With SL Phase 3 I think it genuinely could have been 'equal or better' but its entire existence was wrapped up in BRT hype that ultimately introduced fatal...

From the report this image is taken from... "However, the physical constraints in Quincy are such that, until the North-South Rail Link (NSRL) is built, the trunk should only be partially doubled." Which is the "Phase 1" indicated on the map. In fact their service plan is more conservative, 30...

Yeah this is not a minor thing.

By far the biggest killer of frequencies is Quincy Center station, it's an important stop right in the middle of the line. If QC can get an island platform and double-track up to Adams St then it would maybe be possible to just leave the rest of the track between North Quincy and Quincy Adams as...