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https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/shoreline-east-electric-diesel-trains-ct-21349582.php ConnDOT strongly considering re-dieselizing Shore Line East because of Amtrak's sky-high electric rates on the NEC. :(

The long game's going to incur another $1B+ in semi-related costs, though, when double-tracking of the Old Colony Boston-Braintree mainline has to go on the table to stabilize the service. Because the service reliability Phase I subsists with is so far off the standard for the rest of Commuter...

How easily, though? Remember...these Associations are very sue-happy. They successfully managed to gum up the installation of something as mundane as ADA sidewalk ramp crossings for several years with lawsuit chaos. Hell, it's taken years to even audit the general (horrible) sidewalk...

The track class is going to be entirely Class 4 from Worcester to Springfield, but actual speed limits are still limited by the numerous curves. You'll probably see actual 79 on the Palmer-Wilbraham straightaway that was studied in NNEIRI for Class 5/90 MPH, but I doubt you're getting out of...

"PEDESTRIAN scaled STREETS with GATHERING space". . . . . .and 2,843 parking spaces.:poop:

Weapons-grade NIMBY's cosplaying as historical preservationists. Same playbook this time...mealy-mouthed appeals to "we support this...but...not like that." Followed by full-on stonewalling and threats of litigation or (like the sidewalk ADA saga) actual works-gumming litigation. And the...

The Beacon Hill Civic Association is a pox on the whole neighborhood. They managed to gum up the works for years on even getting ADA-compliant sidewalks with their 'tradition' racket.

Apparently it was a twin calamity of: Major radio blackout on the system making dispatch communication too intermittent to run trains at full speed. That's apparently why this delay rash spanned both northside and southside. Multiple improperly activated grade crossing gates due to road salt...

It's way too late to un-ring the bell of the car centricity of Alewife. A quarter-century of car-brained planning around parking capacity and garages makes it what it is. If they cared about transit access to the Fawcett/Concord Ave. side of the neighborhood, they would've put more movement on...

CTPS, 2 decades ago. Yeah, it's dated...but they were leaning hard back then on Cambridgepark being all built out by TOD by the time it opened so that growth was anticipated. Fawcett St./Concord Ave. development wouldn't have been factored back then at all because the land wasn't available for...

It can't be for transfers to the Red Line. It's a minimum 1500 ft. walk from an outbound side platform to the fare lobby...probably longer. And it's >2000 ft. from an inbound side platform or island with switchbacks. I think they're basing this totally on TOD, or someone's imagination of...

The last feasibility study projected 60 riders per day, so I smell a big waft of B.S. on the projections. Regional Rail increases ridership, but it doesn't take dregs-of-the-system stations and turn them into Top 10'ers instantly. West Cambridge (I can't in good conscience call this thing...

"We have no short-term memory of the last several studies that showed almost no ridership for an Alewife Commuter Rail station that's laughably far askew from the Red Line station, so we're just going to light some more money on fire to study again until we forget about those results too in a...

Assuming an electrified Purple Line, they'd presumably switch to E-mode at Worcester Union Station. But power-switching is hardly flawless. Grand Central and Penn deal with that on a weekly basis with the fast-aging Genesis P32AC-DM dual-modes not switching when they're supposed to switch and...

Enclosed spaces are a pain-in-the-ass for RR operations. Even in a fully electrified future you want considerations for a diesel rescue loco or diesel service substitution for overhead wire maintenance to be able to access the station. We don't want a situation where complex and draconian...

Again...how do you know the exact circumstances of the accident? Could they have been out on the pavement when it was safe, and then the plow came pinning them into a restricted space? If you can't cite anything real to back up the charge, you're just smearing people for no reason. YOUR lone...

How do you know they didn't? Accidents can happen in close proximity, especially when safe walking areas are heavily constrained by all the snow. It's on you to substantiate these vibes-presented-as-facts with something real! Evidence! News reports! SOMETHING! Your schtick is getting very...

Yeah. It's been a shitshow of a rollout for reasons that have little to nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with incompetent queue management meeting extreme weather causing long, backed-up lines in said extreme weather. With Commuter Rail service taking its own body blows...

Prudent vehicle renewal is an underrated one. If you don't have so many old, falling-apart trains day-to-day taxing the shops with constant nuisance repairs and needing to press Everett Shops into fabbing no-longer-made parts, you reduce annual maintenance quite a bit while increasing topline...

Please provide a specific media citation for alcohol being involved in the Belmont incident during the storm. It must be hiding under a rock somewhere only you seem to know where, because none of the post-accident reports said it was anything other than a car getting stuck. Unless you're just...