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Well I shouldn't have said that. Point still stands though.

Yes and no. There was (and still is) a lot of BRT that is more just an enhanced bus service with better branding, the term I've heard and quite like is 'BHLS' (Bus with a Higher Level of Service) but that is obviously more clunky than BRT. There was and is willfull, if not lying definitely...

But again, put it into the context of Phase 3. Travel time from Tufts-South Station would have been 3-4ish minutes, and that's with the good South Station/Silver Line transfer. And even today, the street section between Tufts and Nubian is not meaningfully slower than the B branch. (About 10%...

It's always worth remembering that it wasn't intended to be this way. BRT Mania, poor planning, and bad project management brought us here. With SL Phase 3 I think it genuinely could have been 'equal or better' but its entire existence was wrapped up in BRT hype that ultimately introduced fatal...

From the report this image is taken from... "However, the physical constraints in Quincy are such that, until the North-South Rail Link (NSRL) is built, the trunk should only be partially doubled." Which is the "Phase 1" indicated on the map. In fact their service plan is more conservative, 30...

Yeah this is not a minor thing.

By far the biggest killer of frequencies is Quincy Center station, it's an important stop right in the middle of the line. If QC can get an island platform and double-track up to Adams St then it would maybe be possible to just leave the rest of the track between North Quincy and Quincy Adams as...

The new system is online though, and you can tell because there hasn't been a reported signal failure on the OL in like 2 weeks.

I've run into this a couple times previously, what's worked is clearing all archboston cookies IIRC.

My primary objections to the way it's shown here are that the directional arrows are absolutely tiny and basically invisible, and that the way it's shown as a loop around Copley/Arlington makes the route appear twice as thick (and therefore twice as prominent) as the other routes. It's also a...

Welcome to the map, 9. Side note, it's going to be interesting to see how the official map handles this change, this is where things may start going really off the rails. The 12, 16, and 47 are going to be the real tests though.

This doesn't seem to be a new development actually. The SL3X study shows the same thing:

Depends. Are you trying to build an electric rail line to serve the existing valley communities? Cost/Benefit seems dubious. Are you trying to build an electric rail line to stimulate development paired with an integrated land-use plan? The cost/benefit there is going to be a lot better, the...

As promised, here are my notes from last nights meeting for the Alford St/Lower Broadway project: Overall this meeting was kind of a nothing-burger, they didn't have much to present and they didn't generally have specific answers to people's questions. 15% design expected by the end of the year...

I was at the Focus 2050 meeting last night. I don't have too many notes but here's what I observed: As the name implies, it its a successor to the very Baker-era Focus40 plan from 2019, itself a successor to the 2003 and 2009 PMTs If you read each report you notice a very clear trend in...

I'll be there tonight taking notes for anyone who isn't able to attend in person, but if you can please show up and don't let the NIMBYs be the loud minority!

Thanks, that's pretty much what I expected given the context of suburbanization and increased car-oriented planning.

I'm trying to trace back the history of the Urban Ring. The earliest I can find is the Circumferential Transit Report from 1972, which is claimed to be the first full study. Wikipedia and a couple other articles make reference to a 1923 proposal but nobody seems to have a record of what this...

I've always wondered if maybe local government should act as a landlord in some limited, high-value areas (think Newbury St, Harvard Sq, Downtown, etc) and offer low rent leases on a mixed lottery/merit system to small businesses. There's clearly potential for good results in revitalizing areas...