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I'd add to this uncluttering the approach to NS and SS. I think in a previous transitmatters report they mentioned that the entire mess of switches can be upgraded from 10mph to 25mph for relatively low cost and effort. This allows trains to clear the switches much faster and increase terminal...

I wish a bit more attention was paid to the quality of the pavement too. A car's shocks can largely absorb bumps and cracks but on a bike you can get thrown off the pedals or seat or your bag could fall out of the basket, which deters anyone but young, fit, experienced riders. Cambridge does a...

I don't quite get this. Isn't the problem just damaged tracks, switches, and third rail? Are you really telling me that just ripping out old tracks and installing new ones over the 20-mile red line takes.... 4 years? I feel that even the NYC MTA can get this done in 3-6 months. Shut the line on...

At least Cambridge has been aggressive in deploying their cycling safety ordinance, giving a great alternative for local trips. Hampshire St separated bike lanes were just completed. I'd imagine the Alewife park-n-ride ridership is abysmal right now, though making the entire fresh pond parkway...

Not sure I agree with that. Ped conflict with bikes is always safer and much lower injury risk than ped conflict with cars or bike conflict with cars. And plus, we're talking about drunk people stumbling around for maybe ~5 hours a week while this is a major bike thoroughfare that is used at all...

But we're not asking the drivers to themselves mode switch to bikes, but rather trying to convince them that (enough) other people will be willing to do it if biking were safe and convenient. Maybe all the suburbanites who only hang out with other suburbanites would feel that way, but they...

I wish the focus wasn't so much on "being green" and "reducing carbon emissions" which seems to really trigger the carbrains. Instead if they brand it as reducing congestion with mode shifts (getting more cars off the road so your commute can be faster and free up parking utilization on newbury...

hopefully this involves some charles circle road reconfiguration or other road diet. The entire area is pretty hostile outside of a car needing to cross multiple lanes of traffic in all directions on a bike or on foot.

We're quickly approaching the point of where it would be better to run no service, have shuttle buses on the entire line in bus lanes, so they can get 24/7 access to repairing tracks. They could do the entire southside for a month and then the entire north side for a month. Especially with just...

Anyone know what the longfellow bridge is? I take a blue bike up that bridge both ways each day and it's definitely a bit of a slog in my dress shirt..

The value of the real estate near the transit stop is directly related to how good the transit service is. Provide 5-min headways and short transfer times, people will pay up to ride the train. Someone on reddit pointed out that instead of subsidizing the lots they should just be replaced with TOD.

I legit cannot fathom how full-high's haven't been put in at Back Bay yet for the Worcester Line tracks., given how much ridership it gets. At least put in some temporary metal raised platforms or something.

Haha, just as long as the wheels still use rubber tires. So basically they want a autonomous electric trolleybus that runs on a dedicated ROW at rapid transit frequencies. Sounds like the silver line and we all know how blazing fast that thing is.

This is unreal - there is a full 0.8mi restriction WB from Lechmere to Union Square. Why even run service at that point? Everyone would be better served just walking to Lechmere and jumping on the train there. That way they can work on fixing the brand new track that was installed.. 2 months ago?

It's wild how the I-95 bridge collapse, which serves 150k cars day, was fixed in 12 days, while the Red Line which carries ~240k per day pre-pandemic is allowed to languish for months at a unusable frequency and travel speed.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/09/somervilles-community-path-extension-opens-saturday Old news from last weekend, but the Sommerville community path just opened (connecting lechmere to Davis & Alewife). This provides a good bike connection from almost all of sommerville to downtown...

On such a major thoroughfare street parking should be eliminated along the entire length (with exception of some loading zones). I'm honestly not even sure if bus lanes would do much good here (cars will constantly be spilling into it due to all the intersections/traffic lights. It might be more...

That is true but relieving traffic congestion is non linear such that even if we get 10-25% to take the train, the traffic situation will ease up. And of course if the CR were a connected regional rail network with NSRL that gives a lot more suburb-to-suburb 2-seat rides with travel times that...

right.. to be fair, they did build the stadium right next to a Rail ROW.. imagine a 25-min electric train to back bay running every half hour.. The real misfire was building Xfinity Center just far away from the commuter rail that everyone has to drive drunk just to make it home.

This is bonkers. Having direct CR service to SS would certainly raise property values.