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It's like someone put together an Ikea Böston together wrong.

There's nothing in the design guidelines that I can find that should restrict the current sites for both Belmont and Waverley, a 4º curve is allowed in stations.

I'm torn. On the one hand, ( T ) is just such good branding that it's basically impossible to replace. T as in train (or transit I guess), what more you need? On the other hand, yikes that brand image. And yes, if we're doing state-wide rail then the MBTA's current organizational structure is...

77A wasn't a poorly thought out initiative of the MBTA era, it was a leftover from the BERy era that was as good as dead the minute the Red Line opened to Davis in 1984. I'm surprised it lasted as far as it did, making it to 1998 before being mostly axed and to 2005 before being (almost) fully...

It's such a shame that BERy was literally a global pioneer in how to build an efficient, connected urban transport network with high quality transfers and then we completely whiffed it afterwards. Everett, (Old) Sullivan, Dudley, Egleston, Maverick, Fields Corner, Ashmont, and Broadway were all...

I'm not sure if it has been proposed but I think it should be. The bike lanes on the Harvard Bridge took it down from 4 to 2 lanes. Move those to a new bridge and then you can use the 2 lanes you just reclaimed for transit.

If you don't make any other changes then yes, there are problems. But what if it's bundled with a bunch of other changes? Pedestrianized Newbury St, so no more conflict with vehicles turning out of Newbury Transitway on Mass Ave, either in the center or on the eastern side to minimize...

There are 2 of us! The MBTA doesn't seem so sure of this. In their 'Mobility Integration Plan' (PDF download warning), they state: "The future state of RTA fare-free funding is unknown; nonetheless, the MBTA’s fare payment system is being designed to consider future fare integration with these...

And transit card collectors!

I thought this was at least partially already a thing, and that (before the RTAs went fare-free) you could pay on most of them with a Charliecard.

Depends on where you are. Once you get beyond UK/France/Germany into Eastern and Southern Europe, boarding from low platforms is still common, even at very large stations. Italy (Even Northern Italy) is absolutely terrible for this in my experience.

Rapid transit projects are great and all but if we're taxing people driving into Boston then money should also be spent on improving how people get into Boston. Regional rail, essentially.

Now that is definitely a reasonably concern. Reforms to everything engineering, contracting, and project management really shouldn't wait. Yes, if you need to cross the city on errands multiple times every weekday then you might want a car. I sincerely hope that does not apply to very many people.

These are issues that take money to fix? So where to get this money? A question for the ages oh wait. I mean that's entirely dependent on where you need to stop. Most childcare centers in Boston seem to be pretty transit accessible already. Ideally of course most possible stops would be within...

Not entirely sure if this counts but City Hall for some reason is the title screen picture for the Jackbox game Guesspionage

The only place I can possibly think of where you could do a pilot would be the North End, bounded by N Washington/Cross St and Atlantic Ave/Commercial St, excluding the North End Garage, Resident Parking Permit holders, commercial vehicles, and disability plates/placards. Nothing else seems...

Yeah so that's really just not true. OL trains pre-COVID were regularly stuffed to the brim coming into Sullivan, even when frequencies were fine. (Which was admittedly the exception rather than the norm...) That still doesn't make it good. Extremely literal NIMBYism is not unfounded. Unclear...

If you're doing any mined or bored section then there's no point jumping through however many hoops both politically and financially to demolish a bunch of buildings. Just make the tunnel slightly longer. And again, that's just the demolitions you'd need. You'd need to take something like a...

Yeah you can forget about any ROW re-use past Gibson St. And of course there's the inescapable problem of splitting the OL before Malden Center, which should remain off the table without a damn good reason. Perhaps this segment could be tied into an orbital line... somehow, but without going to...

Addendum: This part can be super controversial. Sometimes it's not like most of the night trains for example. Nobody was operating those services, now someone is, great. (Also, night trains are great, more of them please! And more pack-em-in coaches, I'd like some lower fares.) Where it's...