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Anyone attend the SLX Alternatives meeting on Dec 13? https://www.mbta.com/events/2022-12-13/silver-line-extension-alternatives-analysis-public-meeting-3 No meeting materials posted yet.

In *my* 30 years of riding the Green, I haven't had to ring for a stop in the 25 years since I moved out of Brookline* and over to Arlington and thence to Medford. I'd be p*ssed if I missed a stop because I failed to ring on the GLX (because on my joyrides they mentioned nothing about it. Also...

Either "all stops" or "stop requested" are valid operational strategies. All that's needed is that whichever be clearly communicated

Other reasons it takes newly-opened transit to reach its full potential are also applicable here Punch List Stuff isn't done 1) Bus stops haven't moved (at least at Tufts, they're a block before (Tufts Garage) or a block after (College Ave) 2) Bike cages don't have Charlie Card Security (at...

the old rule of thumb was it took transit 3 years to reach its full potential as it took time to be added 1) to people’s mental maps 2) to people’s habits and to change 3) where people work, live, shop & recreate (like me switching from REI Reading to REI Lechmere) A single seat E it will make...

I'm not advocating for fare gates. I love Proof of Payment systems, but can't ask people to do it (and we'll never get the social compliance) if validating fares is as obscure and difficult as they've made it here, particularly when there were lots of low-tech, no-tech, free-tech ways of...

TL;DR = The suburbs have higher climate impact than the cities for just about every reason you'd expect: Stuff has to travel farther People travel more, and mostly by car Houses are larger and have bigger surface area This seems the best place to discuss this 2022 NYT analysis: The Climate...

At 15 minutes Lechmere to Tufts, the E line is half the time of the 80 bus (28 ~ 32 minutes) and about twice as often.

Still, it is hard for me to believe that some unique/contrasting button color for "validate" wasn't in that kit of parts. [EDIT heck, as simple as reversing the button white-on-black would make it look the existing farebox targets AND be a clue that "validate" somehow has a function reversed...

It sure would be nice if PTC had made shorter trains "visible" to signals, and thereby enabled shorter trains to be "seen"

The fare validation was really awkward (and badly explained). 1) Go to fare "Vending" machine (it turns out it is also a fare-subtracting machine, but that isn't how any of us think of it) 2) Tap your card 3) At the lower left corner of a grid of all the usual "add value buttons" but the same...

On MNRR think they're the same length (nice to have single-level EMUs and level boarding!), with the real difference being that during the Peaks, fares are ~25% higher and trains are every 12 to 20 minutes, versus Clockface-ish half-hourly on the weekends* and something close to that weekdays...

Seems to me RUR should: 1) Run more, shorter trains (more like the T's [4] cars = minimum length) [EDITED thanks to F-Line] 2) *IF* there is a peak-hour crowding problem on min-length "peak hour" trains, these would have/keep/resume distance-based peak pricing 3) Zone 1A & 1 should always cost...

(As a mod, I think frequency & schedule pitches are what RUR is all about)

I’m sorry we didn’t 1. organize an Archboston meetup 2. Advertise Archboston—lots of proto-urbanists riding even at 7:30pm ~ 8:30pm Had a delightful/ deeply nerdy chat with a railfan 'cause I snagged the best seat for the head end view on a Type 8 inbound. He cited missing “Franks voice” and he...

My guess is that there is a very big fan behind that door that they want to be able to swap out “whole” & quickly at the end of its service life, and that you’ll find a similar door in a similar place on most or all built at the same time.

Politically, let’s work on things that either *feel* like NSRL and build regional mobility (accelerate these projects) Red-Blue, BLX to Lynn Orange Line Transformation Worcester triple track North Station Expansion NSX South Station Expansion SSX CR High level platforms or are technical...

Well, MVP was officially the only station put into "Green Extension Phase 2" and, as noted, they diverted the CMAQ funds from GLX2 to pay for the (expected) overruns in Phase 1 and then never programmed them back.

Yes, and on the Red end (and assuming a tunnel) the headhouse is needed for escalators to street level and thence up the current escalators to the elevated station.

The biggest boost to Lowell Line users commuting to USq or Lechmere would be electrified CR every :15 or :20 to North Station. Next would be GLX2 to Rt 16 as a bus mini hub.