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It's good to see some of these plans separate the multi-use path from the 5' dirt walking/jogging path in some sections. Every new re-design should necessitate separating the two and removing car lanes (if necessary) to create the space. If we learn from the best bike cities in europe, reducing...

If Back Bay can have a Logan Express shuttle, then Kendall Square in Cambridge should have one too. The amount of conference travelers going from the airport to that Kendall Square Marriott must be massive. Plus Main St in Kendall already has plenty of curb space for bus loading and layovers. A...

Yea.. with all the construction going on in copley square, they missed an opportunity to build sidewalk-level bike lanes (makes sense both on Dartmouth St and St James ave).

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/12/boston-will-start-building-dartmouth-street-protected-bikeway-this-fall This is really great progress: 2-way protected cycle track on Dartmouth st from the esplanade to boylston. This helps to connect Back Bay with a southbound route although there still...

Post red line shutdown, looks like the line is largely free of slow zones with exception of the braintree branch, which continues to be a disaster. The looming September shutdown should do wonders for service frequency. By October 1st the line should be largely back to pre-pandemic travel times...

I wonder if there will be any immediate timetable adjustments once all the rolling stock has been replaced? The higher top speed would maybe take ~5 mins off the BOS <> NYP run?

not only that, but free buses = greater ridership = more people waiting for the bus at stops and riding on the bus. People are less likely to assault bus drivers/commit crimes when a bunch of people are around and watching. That makes the on-bus and bus-stop experience safer for everyone else.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/08/12/more-bluebikes-coming-soon-city-of-boston-plans-100-new-bluebikes-stations-across-the-city a bunch of new stations coming, starting this fall. Looks like major focus areas were the downtown-crossing pedestrianized area, north station, and north end. This...

Boylston street is filled with grand architecture, amazing destinations, amazing history, and that's why we need to have 3 highway sized lanes of cars going down the middle of it!!

I can understand that sentiment but major infrastructure like this is built for the next few decades, not for the next few years. This intersection is less than a mile from the Natick Center stop and if they ever have plans of converting route 9 from a highway into a mixed transit/bike/car...

christ, the sidewalks/shared-use paths in this monstrosity honestly look like satire. No one who is going anywhere on foot is going to follow these curvy paths and cloverleaf looparounds + waiting at 3 different ped signals just to take a left turn.

I'm sure the NEC is super-congested beyond what I can see on the Metro North schedule, but after riding the 4pm Acela from Penn northbound a few times for work, it seems like - 1 or sometimes 2 tracks are closed for extended lengths, forcing the Acela to run on the local track interlaced with...

We need to stop throwing money at studying these pipe dreams. Just get the existing ROW tracks and bridges up to full possible speed based on the current geometry, unclutter the South Station/Penn Station approaches, get the MBTA to run EMU's on the Providence Line, maybe straighten a curve here...

For me the biggest issue with JetBlue is on time performance. Even though not many are writing news articles about it, the data is all publicly available for anyone who cares to look. Jetblue trails the top 3 major carriers by 10-30% fewer flights arriving on time, even after correcting for...

I ventured over to the bowker/fenway area last weekend, and it's appalling how much of a car sewer that whole area still is. With fenway/time-out market nearby it could be one of the most vibrant, pedestrianized hubs but instead many streets are choked with non-moving cars trying to weave around...

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/02/08/fix-the-slowest-speed-zones/ I wanted to circle back to this as well. He's claiming the SS and NS throat switches can be upgraded with proper signaling (instead of relying on line-of-sight) so that they can run at a full 30mph? That would cut like 3...

On reddit people mentioned the RL had a lot of 25mph slow zones pop up on the braintree branch as well. Hopefully just temporary caused by the heatwave in precaution..

I think a good compromise to get a useful walkshed around the "union station" would be to build "north station under" near the haymarket/GC area. That would be close enough to the blue line for transfers and certain northside lines can continue to terminate at the surface stub-end station.

A very scary scenario but not all that surprising. Transit is a big scale-based business. When you force people to shift modes away from transit through poor service, the cost per rider will increase even if you have fewer trains running. It is appalling how the state doesn't take transit/CR as...

This is awesome for Micromobility/bike Park-and-ride connections to Alewife. I could see a lot of current users who ride the 70-73 buses to harvard switching to bike to alewife then take the Red Line from there.