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As @The EGE suggests, my theory (based purely on vibes, I haven't actually checked any data) is that the northside had a lot (like, the vibes are a lot) of closures, which would have disrupted habit formation. That's fascinating that Middleboro had essentially exactly the same numbers in '18...

New Commuter Rail Regional Rail passenger counts just dropped: https://www.massdottracker.com/latest-posts/fall-2024-regional-rail-counts I haven't been able to dig into the data yet, but the fact that Lansdowne and Boston Landing (!) are both comfortably in the top 10 -- and that Ruggles is...

I can’t speak for the actual situation at the T, but from my professional IRL experience, I’m guessing that feedback form probably is actually at least somewhat monitored. My guess would be that the 5-day turnaround is to handle cases where the team has to do some investigation to actually...

Could perhaps reuse some of the Silver Line Phase III plans, particuarly via Charles St? Depends whether you are trying to maintain the connection to Arlington/west. Else, you could maybe majorly rework the tunnels just to the south of the station (might be able to avoid triggering Historical...

Just popping in to say that I don’t mean to be leaving this discussion “on read” — just wrangling a few different projects right now. I hope to reply soon. (And I hope it goes without saying, but I think all the discussion is awesome, and I really appreciate the opportunity to talk about this...

I’ve sometimes sketched a locally-oriented service that runs from Auburndale to Cleveland Circle and then interlines with the C to Kenmore where it loops. But yes, the density is quite low. @TheRatmeister, good call on the cycling integration. I wonder if low-floor cars and lower-ridership...

Don't have time tonight to respond to things (will try tomorrow), but one other point did occur to me, which is the length of trainsets. Current 2-car sets are about ~150 feet long. A single T10 supertrain will be 114 feet, and a supertrain doubleset ("hypertrain"?) will be just under 230 feet...

The last time I checked, Amtrak sells tickets from South Station to Route 128, but not the reverse, I'm guessing for similar reasons as @ceo lays out: the journey from RTE to BOS is very short and it's that much more likely that riders will have planned their journey on a tight schedule; the...

Good call! I pulled the Transit Matters data for an example day during this period, and yup, looks like it was about 20-22 TPH: https://dashboard.transitmatters.org/green/trips/single/?from=70158&to=70200&date=2024-12-11 That being said: This is the part that gets me though. "Operational...

Well, serves me right for commenting without checking data: I grabbed a random day from the Transit Matters headways/departures data (March 5) and, yup, during the morning peak there were 30 trains per hour leaving Park Street going to Government Center. So, yes, the T is actually hitting 30 tph...

@Stlin, thanks for digging this out! If you have the link to the 1993 doc handy, I'd love to look. (I found one document from '93, but I think this may have come from the appendix, which wasn't included.) @Teban54, I think this might actually answer our questions about Lincoln/Essex/Surface...

Ah oops, I see. In fact, I’m actually suggesting that Criss Cross would either loop some trains at Park, or would add a northbound crossover north of the station, or both. (This detail is tucked subtly into the track diagrams above, but I should have mentioned it more clearly. ) Yeah. And it’s...

The South Station <> Longwood 1SR: So, setting aside the quad-track/upstairs-downstairs idea I just mentioned, I do want to talk about the South Station <> LMA 1SR question in terms of my original map above. This was also one of my biggest hesitations. But a few things changed my mind: The...

Great to have you back! At least some of these points were ones I anticipated :) So I actually think this isn't quite as drastic as it seems. One of the big things to highlight at the outset is the capacity boost from full usage of Park St quad tracks. One of the downsides of Tripod is that...

I believe the most recent Northern Tier study included intermediate stops west of Fitchburg. (I myself still prefer the Z route, and somewhere on my blog have a more detailed walkthrough.)

I'm gonna stop now (for my own sanity as much as anything else) but this perhaps seems like the least painful: Portal + median on a pedestrianized Essex St (I guess it doesn't even have to be pedestrianized though) Traffic light Run along the western side of Surface Road where there's wider...

This is a point that would be worth closer studying and modeling. In principle, I agree with you, but I think it's worth highlighting that South Station (on the Seaport branch) is arguably the better access point to Downtown -- the central employment axis of downtown is along Congress St, not...

Yes, to clarify, I was suggesting using a TBM to reach Essex St, to use the same insertion point as the other options.

Yeah. Tripod would probably work better if it tried to do one fewer thing. For example, if it were only the B or C running on the Inner Loop, then I might be less skeptical. Or if there weren't a branch to Nubian, or if it didn't need to handle a branch to Heath St/Hyde Square. Remove any one of...

I've been trying to write a version of this post for, like, a month now, and it just keeps on getting away from me. So I'm going to try to just get something of it out now -- I can always come back to the thread and add more later! A little less than a year ago, I took my suggested model for a...