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Dude...you're buying the battery locos to run on the one fully electrified line and, so far, nowhere else. You ain't maximizing shit with pants-on-head spending decisions like that. Gah...his brain and everybody's brains immediately underneath him are absolutely cooked on this battery shit. I...

Brightline is actually consistently building new things, instead of just deferring maintenance and holding board meetings to publicly pat self on the back for deferring maintenance. That's real work, bro.🏋️‍♂️ Brightline actually has current and past executive ranks filled with proven pax...

The business model of paying down the operating deficit with ultra-long term real estate development around the stations, while soundly reasoned, really isn't compatible with the short attention span of private equity and short-term debt-shifting games therein. This end was pretty much...

Who cares if the world burns and Boston is underwater...at least I got my tax cut, amirite? 🤡

That's why Metro-North proposed building a 1-mile extension of third rail to the 25 Hz/60 Hz phase break, because the M8's can handle the over-running third rail. They bought the supplemental order of M8's specifically for this. Amtrak dragged its feet for years then ultimately said no because...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.662423/gov.uscourts.nysd.662423.1.0.pdf Amtrak sues Metro-North for blocking non-revenue movements of the Acela 2's for the past month. Includes overnight testing on the New Haven Line, and transfer moves on the Hudson Line for fresh...

It's not about a nuclear power stance or anything necessarily political/ideological. It's about creating new controversy around a stance the Governor took to try to stir up a very sleepy and non-competitive election season into a horse race narrative so Henry can drive clicks and sell...

Amtrak is as flexible as NNEPRA wants to make it through it's PRIIA subsidy. If they want to subsidize commuter fares, they can do that easily; ConnDOT already does that for the Amtrak Valley Flyer and Springfield Shuttles to make them unified with the CTrail Hartford Line's schedules and fare...

This could go in several threads, unfortunately. . . https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/22/mayor-wus-latest-budget-plan-eliminates-funding-for-over-a-dozen-street-safety-projects-see-the-list

He knows that. He's just sprouting incoherent ideological dogma where the incoherence is a feature, not a bug.

The guy who famously thinks higher education is a scam sucking us dry wants higher education to create transit that's totes self-sufficient for the first time in recorded history, even though that same sentence implies that there will be subsidy by virtue of somebody has to pay the institutions...

"Traffic is free-dumb; transit is tyranny." -- Libertarians 🤡

That would require wading into the recently-excised Libertarian Rantings thread to find the source reading material from a noted sourpuss reporter who's almost always wrong. It exists...but no, I wouldn't recommend putting in the effort.

Brattle Loop doesn't have any plans. The curve is within the vehicle tolerances of the Type 10's (it's 1 ft. greater than Park loop, which also isn't being modified), and the platform segment inside the main station is already accessible. I also *think* the accessible platform is already long...

The RFP was for up to 226 cars, so they have plenty of options on the 102-car base order. The goal is to eventually make all peak trains 2 cars, but obviously most of the system is not going to be ready for that at the start so the base order is only for the essentials. Plus the old cars have...

Financing of the project spread out the bills across many CIP fiscal years, including deferred money. That's typical for most large-cost projects. For example, I lost count of how many "Commuter Rail bi-level" line items are in the document. A lot of them are for vehicles long since...

It's not a rational concern at all where they had the trolleybuses, and where they played the aggressor saying the cities can't have nice things like road reconfigs if the wires didn't first come down. Cambridge didn't do anything to make their planning lives a living hell; they did this to...

Yeah. Mixing radials and circumferentials within one route rarely works well, and usually underperforms pretty significantly on ridership because of skipping the core the radial riders disproportionately want to get to. Alon Levy has written a lot about that over the years, and still is still...

How often does that happen, though? Most of the route system today follows the same exact trolley wires that were in place on those routes over a century ago. Even the BNRD isn't touching most of them. And given that wires in a discontinuous charging system would only appear on very frequent...

This extreme a level of resource reallocation really underscores how little operational flexibility the T has for everyday Commuter Rail ops. Basically anything systemwide that is not a conventional end-to-end local running rush-hour size sets is completely decimated by the mass equipment raid...