Search results

It's rude not to give credit to the libertarian Substack you plagiarized this from. :cautious:

oH nOeS wErE tOo StUcK tO tHe FeDeRaL tEaT gUyZ!

You're arguing with a not-very-bright libertarian who sees social services and public investment as a bad thing. Tech-bros-run-amok and hollowing out the West Coast cities is a feature, not a bug, to him. It's not supposed to make sense; it's dogma.

Science and education is a scam, yo. 🤡

Ah, yes, the animal known as square #6.

Staffing and staff structure are the biggest reason they can't/haven't upped weekend frequencies even though some lines like Providence are producing very high per-train weekend ridership. Crew boards at Metro-North and LIRR have way larger flex shifts for weekday off-peaks and weekends...

Hmm.

Yep. CSX has already put out to bid third-party shortline operators for the extremely marginal Waterville-Augusta and Bangor-Bucksport branches, with 1 interested party filing a proposal and some new transload business planned for the formerly out-of-service Bucksport Branch. It's an extra...

Yes it does. They have a transload in Island Pond, VT. Although as SLR is a largely 3-day-a-week operation, CSX doesn't do a lot of interchanging with them compared to the levels Pan Am did, opting to reach Vermont through other higher-volume interchanges like NECR. CSX is all about...

That's incredibly, *incredibly* wishful-thinking thus far unsupported by any shred of evidence. Believe me, RR.net has had foam-drenched discussions going about this almost continuously for all of its 22 years of existence...and *no one*--including the actual CSRR employees who liberally post...

The Mountain Division is a foamer fantasy, not a real-world consideration. An express bus down ME 25 can link Westbrook perfectly well, there's virtually nothing between Westbrook and the state line that would draw flies, and there isn't a freight revenue tag-team to underwrite costs. In a...

Per the Reddit thread on this article, they focused almost exclusively on quotes from one guy who is a near-legend in town for opposing anything and everything and being a viral complaint spammer. Great reporting job there, Herald News.

If he crayoned this without so much as knowing about the well-publicized Urban Ring Major Investment Study that pretty much duplicates the purpose-and-need on a much better overall alignment, it's safe to assume he wasn't knee-deep in the details of such things like how you're going to...

That's pretty much Urban Ring Phase III except for the curious avoidance of Cambridge for the Back Bay. UR III is the highest-ridership project that's ever been studied in Boston, slightly more than NSRL.

It's 14 7-car bi-level trainsets + 2 spares reserved for the World Cup, so 16 locos, 16 cab cars, and 96 bi-level trailers needed. I don't know how it compares to the storm schedules, but it's a LOT of disruption considering that other events like Red Sox home games are happening...

https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-healey-announces-summer-savings-for-commuter-rail-riders Governor announces special summer-month Commuter Rail discounts: Free Fridays, 50% monthly pass discounts, weekend interzone discounts for monthly pass holders, and $1 weekend fares for bringing 1...

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/red-line-was-rolling-its-new-tremont-street-extension-tonight So apparently there was another Red Line delivery on Thursday. 64 cars on the property now. Unclear how many near-completed cars Springfield still has left before the long Customs interregnum...

That's only needed on systems that intermix rolling stock of differing door configurations. We don't have that anymore with all our lines either having uniform per-line fleets or having uniform-fleet procurements ongoing, and we won't have that going forward with door configurations unlikely to...

If they're buying anything diesel, it's going to be a hybrid not a pure-diesel biodiesel. They're already too far in with a majority-hybrid fleet. And there's no way you'd get equivalent emissions by deleting the hybrid battery for a simpler overall biodiesel setup...one is still engine-off at...

Well, it's not going to mitigate the need to build new or heavily renovated bus garages and have the Legislature do its damn job funding that crawl-back from eons of deferred maintenance. The hybrid fleet is an emissions-control godsend and we're lucky that majority of the fleet is now...