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Not necessarily. There are definitely platform screen door systems out there that are far older than CBTC signaling. Operators may need some in-car optical sensor assist on stopping position so it's accurate to the inch instead of the foot, but it shouldn't require an all-new signal system...

CTRL+F "electrification" Not Found. You sure you were actually there, Phil?:cautious:

Probably trying to cut down on the total number of sets they use by deadheading the first game-train revenue set back to Boston via a Foxboro-Mansfield-Boston deadhead to send back out a second time as one of the last sets. And then maybe the reverse sequence for the return trips. They may be...

Jon Keller is an intellectual simpleton, and always has been. There isn't a complex problem in the world to him that inside-ball political triangulation won't lick, no matter how many times he's been proven wrong again and again and again. Frankly WBZ made a stopped-clock good decision to let...

What would that change? There's like 3 halfway reputable BEB manufacturers with Buy America-compliant plants, which is why unit prices are so uniformly high. You have the same limitations of first-generation technology no matter who you buy from: poor winter charging range, consistently...

The Legislature is not exactly detail-oriented, so I have little hope that change is going to come from the top-down. The slides in the T's decarbonization presentation outline some of the problems with them making all this an unfunded mandate. Replacing the old bus garages is necessary even...

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation/where-the-rubber-meets-the-road-mbta-questions-if-electric-bus-mandate-is-worth-the-tradeoffs/ The white flag is starting to wave pretty vigorously from within on the state's bus electrification mandate, with general consensus that the 2041 deadline...

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-03/2026-03-26-board-of-directors-meeting-north-station-draw-one-bridge.pdf MBTA Board to vote in Skanska tomorrow.

https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-03/4.%20MBTA%20SHE%20Deck_Decarbonization%20Strategy.pdf Decarbonization update from the T Board Safety, Health, and Environmental Subcommittee. All told it's worded very bearishly. They play up the downsides to electrification, play up "cleaner...

The DEIS was published before the Vermonter's 2014 official line relocation from the Central Vermont Line to the Conn River Line (although the move was well under construction by then, so they should've marked it anyway). It was not a well-researched report. Wild crayoning guesses all around...

NEC FUTURE's Tier 1 Draft EIS, Alternatives D14 and D15, considered new HSR alignments through Worcester. Most of the MetroWest alignment went along the Sudbury Acqueduct ROW, and D14 did I-84 and the Mass Pike to Sudbury Acqueduct. They didn't live long in scoping because Worcester <...

Given that by 2003 they had retreated to planning to short-turn most service at Boylston Loop because of growing deficiencies in schedule-keeping on the trunk, I wouldn't even say Phase 3 was promising "high-quality transfers" in the end. Not being able to get to Orange or Red on a 1-seat from...

What??? Like...a whole new alternate rail alignment along I-93? No...nobody's proposing that. That would cost billions more than just widening the current alignment, plus you'd never divert the Old Colony alignment away from the Quincy Center bus hub and all that 2-seat trip generation...

Can't. Red Line cars are 15-1/2 feet shorter than Commuter Rail cars, and the loss of that much carbody underside cannibalizes all of the space you'd need to mix power inputs for 600V DC third rail and 25 kV AC overhead. Plus you'd never be able to do a uni-car that makes weight for the Red...

TransitMatters specced 60-80 MPH actuals on the mainline from the terminal district through Braintree, 30 MPH actuals in the terminal district, and 100 MPH actuals on the branches to make those Phase I meets happen with impossible precision. All of their reports were bad on the speed vs. meet...

No. I'll give the same exact answer as the last time you brought this up. Quincy has a 55-year developed commuting affinity for the Downtown transfer stations and Cambridge. You are not politically going to be allowed to wreck all those commutes by forcing extra transfers and fare penalties...

TransitMatters generally went a little too threadbare for credulity in its Old Colony Modernization report with sheer-perfection timing single-track meets on the OC branches, but even they thought the entire main needed complete double-tracking to pull off effective :30 Regional Rail to all...

It looks awful.

Per Reddit an additional Red Line pair (1960/1961) was spotted in testing this week, so there was 1 confirmed delivery this month after none in February. Unclear if this empties Springfield until the Customs-released shells start arriving, or if they have a couple more yet to come. For...

Wollaston is definitely brutal. I don't see how that gets solved without blowing-up/rebuilding the station yet again. They'd either have to swing the Red Line alignment further out on the parking lot side of the station and/or narrow the somewhat curiously over-wide for its passenger load (28...