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In Fall 2024, what was the busiest MBTA bus stop by combined boardings and alightings in the inbound direction that is NOT at a rapid transit station or in the Silver Line transitway? Edit: And excluding Nubian as well because yes it wins by a mile.

A nice puzzle! (Don't click if you want to find it yourself) And this map shows where the tracks used to lead

maybe? but like, why? It has to be a drawbridge regardless. Just make it level with the park.

I am obviously not the designer of this project, but if I were designing a shared path like this, it would be winding to force bikes to slow down. Yes I'm sure it will be split 50/50 like these paths generally are but you still don't want bikes or worse ebikes or mopeds speeding past...

Vero Beach, 1x weekly.

For a rough example of what might be good in this space, have a look at central Kaunas, Lithuania where there's a very green, pedestrianized central street, lined with mid-rises and connected to neighboring parks. I'm not saying Brockton should look exactly like that (The 'canvas' is not nearly...

Trying to make semi-private green space work is absolutely not an American thing, you see it all over the world. It can actually be pretty good (see the 'cottage court' above, but a downtown area is absolutely not the place for it. Buildings arranged to form a continuous (albeit somewhat...

Seems like it. (And I'm sure that was a calculus made at some point, how valuable is that land versus buying something else.)

Maybe if/when electrification with EMUs happens, but there's still a serious time penalty to that. Ultimately a question for the future though.

I haven't done a 17h flight but I have done (sitting) train trips that long and yeah with snacks and entertainment it's not a problem so long as you can get up and walk around.

If I had to hazard a guess about the Forge Park bustitution, it would be that running via the Fairmount Line adds travel time and thus decreases equipment availability, so the slow run to Forge Park gets cut. But that's just a guess and it's not based on anything.

-16.5% YOY in trips, down from 121 per week to 101. Almost certainly where the reduced ridership (-10.1% YOY) is coming from. 216 actually has more trips logged in 2024 compared to 2023, 367 vs 362. 91 has the same number of logged trips (202). -7.4% YOY, down from 339 weekly trips to 314...

10,000 weekly boardings.

Here are the bus routes with more than 10,000 weekly boardings which grew the most in terms of passengers between 2023 and 2024: Route % Change since 2023 % Change since 2019 426 (Lynn-Haymarket/Wonderland via Cliftondale) 21.1% -4.9% 435 (Lynn-Salem via Peabody) 19.9% 50.3% 429...

This is such a non-news item. "In-N-Out" may expand."

My curiosity got the better of me. Here are the routes with the lowest maximum load, IE the routes with the fewest people on the bus at any given point in time, averaged by time of day (Weekday AM peak, weekday midday, weekday late nights, Saturdays, Sundays, etc). Route Max. Average Load...

Probably not, it would likely be the infrequent local routes within Boston that exist to ensure that everyone is a short walk away from the bus if they cannot walk further. Routes like 26, 44, or 121. I'll look at vehicle loads sometime to actually check but right now is not that time.

31 becoming a Frequent Bus Route and 15 being extended to Fields Corner for all trips. Is this the future of the BNRD, small changes a couple routes at a time? Side-note, I'm curious what the next map is going to look like. The draft I've seen looks like this at Fields Corner, which looks, less...

The contract with Cubic may be pricy, but it is demonstrably nowhere near expensive enough to justify just getting rid of fares. The MBTA is paying around $1bn for installation and 10 years of maintenance for the new fare system, over which time, assuming fare revenue remains static, the T will...