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https://www.universalhub.com/2026/two-councilors-want-city-mbta-cancel-blue-hill-avenue-bus-lanes-use Councilor Culpepper ups the ante on trying to turf the Blue Hill Ave. bus lanes, same week as the federal funding comes through. This time he's backed away from the racism argument, and is...

Did you read the damn article before popping off yet again??? They're rebuilding the most complex set of interlockings on the entire rapid transit system. There will be temporary speed restrictions while they do so, because critical signal infrastructure needs to be taken offline while they do...

NSRL isn't replicating that. There's no room in the station caverns for Spanish-solution platforms. It'll just be a single island for the 2-track versions and 2 islands--one per bore with separated bores--in the 4-track version. Boarding/alighting, especially with people already waiting on...

This is what the NSRL 2019 reassessment says in terms of tunnel throughput for the 2-track and 4-track builds: We're going to have to revolutionize our on-time practices to even get a 3.5 minute per direction frequency, because that target is well shorter than the T's schedule padding for...

The only proposed infills in any of the studies are Palmer and Chester...and Chester is only mentioned as an afterthought in a universe where we have max-build BOS-ALB schedules. There's not a chance it goes it on the board for just the Lake Shore Ltd. or only a couple BOS-ALB slots; it's way...

They're considered extras on the schedule, so the arrival/departure times are not all that predictable. There's probably internal rules about that, since revenue collection would be pretty unreliable at scattershot schedules. Plus the assistant conductors may be officially off-shift when being...

It also needs to be said...this is not like the cost of Worcester Union Station getting its new-construction island platform that hadn't previously existed in any way, shape, or form attached to the station in over 60 years. Springfield Union Station already has 4 serviceable island platforms...

Yeah. Plus, remember, the N-S and E-W trains are going to have timed transfers to each other. You want people from Boston to be able to get more than one whack-per-day at the Valley+Vermont+Montreal, so that one-RT-a-day Boston-Montreal direct train is going to be complemented by stock Inland...

Well, you need it end-of-line for start- and end-of-day for damn sure. Overnight storage needs increase if you're doing :30 frequencies right from 5:00am. But you'll also need it for shift changes between the peak and off-peak, even when frequencies stay at a constant high level all day...

All 3 phases were funded, but construction contract for Phase 3 hasn't been awarded yet (Keolis got the Phase 2 contract). They're supposed to be doing design work for it right now, but there haven't been status updates in a very long time.

Phase 2 doesn't bring all that much above-and-beyonds for schedule management, which is why they're taking their sweet time finishing it without a ton of urgency. It's Phase 3 Norwood-Walpole that's the critical one, and once that's in place you'll be able to fully tap the benefits of Phases 1...

I wonder whose service is going to need to be cut to make that happen. 14 sets + 2 spares (and I'm assuming these will all have to be max-length all- bi-levels to swallow the crowds) is an ENORMOUS equipment commitment. 6 of the 7 Foxboro WC games are scheduled on weekdays, so somebodies on...

New York Central heritage-paint unit is done and about to enter service. This is the paint scheme that all Boston & Albany trains used to run in, because the NYC was their parent company. F40 #1071 (the one that's currently running in all-black primer) is supposed to get painted in the...

Yes. It used to handle 97 trains per day until the late-1950's when the Pike + I-91's opening slashed back the B&A, B&M, and NYNH&H schedules here. And the 4-way directional blender + very divergent-service users at this site (terminating commuter rail and regional intercity, thru...

That's the one! Nov. '23 NEC Commission report. https://nec-commission.com/wp-content/uploads/C37-Full-Report-Nov-23.pdf Page 26: It says generic "electric service", but they mean EMU because those travel time reductions are not possible with anything other than EMU's/BEMU's. EDIT: The %...

Yes. An Amtrak slide deck published last year that had precise EMU-projected travel times to Providence and Wickford. I can't find it on board search; it was either many pages ago in this thread or in the Commuter Rail thread. The 16-18% figure tracks with many other known world cases of time...

Platform A is going to be needed for the Vermonter and Valley Flyer because they operationally reverse off the north wye to get into the station and you don't want to do too extreme a number of crossover games if you want to keep that from being a schedule drag. "A" will probably also be used...

Wynn must be one shrewd but terminally online transit nerd, because that promised $25M is never going to be spent once the T clarifies up-front that the grade in front of Encore is too steep for a legal ADA-compliant station.

Good on TransitMatters for already hammering the point that this purchase does nothing to actually improve service like EMU's/BEMU's would very noticeably improve service. As an example of how this hurts, I did some math recently on the T's bi-level for single-level coach replacement based on...

https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/26/markey-leads-moulton-in-new-ma-senate-poll-see-numbers/88858684007/ New Markey-Moulton poll shows Ed Markey slightly expanding his lead over Seth Moulton to 12 points (he beat Joe Kennedy by 9 six years ago), a +3 improvement from...