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Likely not enough solar exposure, which is what the E-ink signs need since they're solar-powered (this image taken from the MBTA's webpage on this program).

The mayor announced 9 miles of bike lanes end of last year and there's been a lot of open houses and community walks for them but it sounds like they've been getting the same-old bikelash from Boston NIMBY's. They put in South Huntington earlier this spring, but hopefully the rest of them get...

Been very excited to see that Priority Trail Network - it really does now feel like MassTrails is being more proactive from a program standpoint. SB Mass had a nice piece out last week on MCRT and BFRT construction progress - it gave me a bit of hope especially now that the Somerville Community...

Lighter materials for the building siding and some architectural rhythm in the facade go a long way.

This is embarrassingly bad road design for an dense area near a major rapid transit station and a regional park system. Thank goodness MassDOT rarely follows up and implements the studies they publish.

Agreed, but what I bet happened is that the contractor finally finished the punchlist ADA items and the T probably wanted to just get it open asap given the political pressure.

Well, it's a street redesign, so I think they're just counting it as one whole corridor project. Here's some more background on it and here's the project page.

They're probably assuming that by the time this is implemented, the 22 would take a left on Tremont by RX station, which is what's included in the final bus network redesign map. That would mean the 66 and 22 would overlap there at RX and repeatedly again along Tremont in Mission Hill.

Boston and the T have released the concept plan for extending the Columbus Ave bus lanes north from Jackson up to Ruggles Station - center-running bus lanes, road diet, expanded green space, better ped crossings - concept here and fact sheet here.

Agreed, but one of the things that excites me about this announcement is that speed humps can be scaled up and deployed very quickly, even compared to other quick-build traffic calming interventions. The city's map for where they could do speed humps is extensive, too - would be great to see...

Totally understood, but seems like a good place to work on a collaboration with a private developer to create some market rate housing along with it, similar to Whittier Choice Phase 3 in Roxbury. Ink Block's a stone's throw away . . . just seems like a missed opportunity to increase the overall...

This is good but perhaps goes without saying . . . should be much taller to max out the density on this site.

There are a couple train station / rail projects included in the last federal RAISE grant award cycle, so a city could certainly apply and win (not saying the overhead and match wouldn't be major challenges but still - there's a potential path).

This is great but FWIW this is also available on the T's project page - direct link here.

This is one of the biggest projects MassDOT's planned and have been talking about this for practically a decade now. What's wrong with MassDOT? https://commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation/is-there-a-finance-plan-for-the-i-90-allston-project/

Nothing much new to share in this story in the Globe, but some good context about how the city is thinking about the process: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/business/stitching-hole-chinatown-with-park-over-pike/

A more-common-than-you-think reason for why subway elevators are frequently out of order is folks peeing in them. It can compromise the machinery beneath, which is why the T is following a few other agencies to detect urine in their elevators.

Probably depends on whenever those new bus routes go into effect. After that, it's probably up to the T or whichever roadway owner owns the curbs (Somerville? Medford? MassDOT or the T if it's on / near a bridge, etc.)

If the Board has already voted then the report is just for posterity - whenever MassDOT does a planning study, they tend to produce a final report.

The Port Authority of NY & NJ is a prominent example of an authority between states to improve shared transportation goals, so I think a New England Passenger Rail Authority could be possible if you had the buy-in from the states involved (pretty likely - without NH that is) and sign-off from...