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https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/28/even-with-80-tickets-mbta-expects-to-lose-money-on-world-cup-transit-service As predicted, all of the WC regular service disruptions are causing the T to lose money on event service. :(

Looks like a coincidence of the sand layers in the soil that the grade ends up mostly flat, such that going a couple tenths of a degree flatter would allow enough level space for a platform. But they weren't considering it at all back then. Since the grade forces the entirety of the platform...

FEIS Volume I FEIS Volume II (includes sections on Arlington Center and Arlington Heights stations)

Very little. Route 128 was proposed in the 1960's, but back then it was going to portal-up on the Fitchburg Line right at Porter and skip straight to Alewife and the Lexington Branch on the surface with no Davis alignment whatsoever. And that was back when the Route 2 expressway extension was...

The 1975 plan was tunnel all the way. And yes, the yard (which I think was to be above-ground) was going to go on the Arlington Coal & Lumber property. Most likely they'd keep to the 1975 tunneling plans verbatim. The only real change would be that Arlington Center and Arlington Heights...

You can hear it in exactly one spot...the emergency exit near Mass Ave. Everywhere else it's silent. That was my daily walking route for the whole decade I lived in North Cambridge. The only people who are going to throw a shit fit are the ones who throw a shit fit about anything and...

Not a single bench to be found. :(

The continued existence of the 77 makes borderline considerations for an East Arlington stop a lot less fraught. It probably has to be the Minuteman ROW full-stop because utility relocation is such a freaking huge variable in tunneling costs, and the Minuteman has virtually none of that to...

Alewife is an absolutely dysfunctional bus hub, and was never intended to host as many routes via the Route 2 frontage roads as it did after the Arlington Heights extension was canceled in the 70's. It's an operational quagmire because of the traffic problems around Alewife, and the frequencies...

It's a long game for sure, but it all starts with consistent self-advocacy. Arlington is starting the process of vociferous self-advocacy.

Also, infamously, B&M and Pan Am were never ever able to get railroad insurance coverage for the Hoosac after it was acquired from the Fitchburg RR in 1900. So it's always been an unusually expensive route to operate and maintain because they don't have any standard coverage for outages caused...

Given that the Hoosac Tunnel already has a long-term susceptibility to cave-ins, and the fact that the portion of Berkshires closest to Pittsfield (as opposed to North Adams) is a much more motley assortment of rock and glacial fill, I don't think base tunneling is going to be an all that...

https://media.amtrak.com/2026/05/amtraks-berkshire-flyer-returns-for-summer-service-with-expanded-weekend-trips-between-pittsfield-and-new-york-city/ Amtrak Berkshire Flyer (New York-Albany-Pittsfield) is back for the 2026 summer season after being bustituted for the entire 2025 season due to a...

What the shit kind of lame trolling hottake is this?!? :rolleyes:

Seriously, Glob? A drawn-out fluff piece on the "Man Behind The Deck" that barely mentions the giant FUBAR of a stalled development that was supposed to go on top of the deck? That was 900 words of text my braincells are never going to recoup the wasted effort of reading.

California has an almost incomprehensibly thick web of local, county, and state-level authorities that all have the power through the state's infamously permissive ballot measure system to raise their own tax revenues for specific purposes. Such that any geographical area that really really...

It's basically a mash-up of the more-or-less agreed-upon Urban Ring Grand Junction alignment and the Silver Line Allston+Longwood extension off the Phase III tunnel that was evaluated by the 2003 PMT. The latter...at least in its Silver Line form...was sort of hilariously overoptimistic on the...

We're not going to be replacing the entire loco and coach fleet in one fell swoop like this is the Red Line. Procurements and rebuilds were staggered out enough that end-of-life targets of the current fleets is spread way, way out and require multiple orders to feasibly turn over. Hell, even...

It's just nuts. Providence is already electrified. Stoughton can be electrified for cheap by building out Sharon substation. Fairmount can be electrified cheap if they'd stop making the lamest excuses in the world for not doing any of that. It's only the sparse 8 weekday RT's to Wickford...