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Slight correction to this: In 1946, the legislature directed the Coolidge Commission to consider a "a subway loop from Boston through Everett, Maiden, Medford, Somerville and Cambridge to Boston and to Forest Hills in the West Roxbury district". That would have been a rather ungainly route...

World Cup service changes are out: https://www.mbta.com/service-changes/service-changes-during-the-world-cup General service reductions for five weeks, including fewer express trains and short turns. No East Taunton shuttle trains. On match days, Foxboro has shuttle buses for the outer...

Ultimately, I'm not sure that the radial-circumferential combo works well here. A circumferential line is primarily for short-distance trips and connecting places to the radial lines; if you're going far around (such as Chelsea-LMA) it'll be faster to go through the core. Everett riders have to...

I don't believe a tunnel was ever seriously proposed. Because of the number of tracks, it would be a 200+ foot tunnel with lengthy approaches. There's definitely an element of a bridge feeling safer than a tunnel. The Community Path is on an embankment to the north (the tracks originally crossed...

Weirdly, I get a "method not allowed" error when using a VPN (built-in Firefox VPN) but the site works fine without.

The nearside/farside difference between the first round of designs in 2024 and the final designs is Dean EB, St Paul WB, and Hawes EB. Platforms at Englewood EB, Dean WB, and St Paul EB are getting moved farside; others were already farside. (I guess Tappan WB is technically nearside, but that...

No, commuter rail trains do not stop at Hynes, only the Green Line.

Anecdotally, city business owners almost universally drive to work, and because of that they believe their customers (and employees) do too.

Some notes from looking at the presentation: The current proposal maintains a continuous Sullivan-bound bus lane, while there will be an Everett-bound gap from Beacham to Sweetser Circle. They're actually cutting the Everett-bound bus lane back from its existing length at Sweetser Circle...

BNRD currently calls for the 80 to terminate at Davis, with the portion east of Powder House Square discontinued. That makes sense to me - Davis is a bigger destination, has more frequent rapid transit, and has a dedicated busway. It also calls for the 94 to be discontinued, while the 96 will be...

Very curious to see what this involves. I can't imagine bus lanes on a street that's 40 feet with with an existing bike lane. Maybe some queue jumps? The current plan only has the worse-than-every-30 route 80 on Boston Avenue. The 94 and 350 are scheduled to go away with BNRD. The 96 currently...

I think the time to do it would be after a big push to get bus lanes in Roxbury and Dorchester. Get Columbus Phase 2, BHA, Seaver, Malcolm X, and at least something on Warren and in the LMA. Then you can say "oh look, we've got so many routes using these busways, we don't want to put them all in...

I can't find anything from 1923 about the proposal; it doesn't appear in the Globe (that I can find) or the BTD annual reports. The 1926 Report on improved transportation facilities in the Boston metropolitan district mentions the proposal briefly...

And that's Cape Cod, a longstanding vacation area that merited multiple daily seasonal trains from NYC until 1959. The only direct service I'm aware of from NYC to Newport/Fall River/New Bedford was the once-a-week Harpooner, operated summers from approximately 1929 to 1932, which ran as a...

The current NETransit roster indicates 443 active cars (146 flats and 197 bilevels) with 376 required for peak. There are 96 passenger locomotives available with 66 required for peak. (Why are they renting additional locomotives?) Obviously not 100% of those are available at any given moment...

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Today's quiz is all about transfers. The collection of historical streetcar maps on Commons may be helpful. For the purposes of this quiz, the "downtown area" is as shown in the map below. "Surface lines" are streetcar lines that did not enter the subway (i.e, not Green Line branches"). The...

It would also be very difficult to maintain subway-quality service when it's dependent on the exact timing of multiple through-running lines (since the frequency of such a service would be much higher than any individual southside line). Minor variations that aren't an issue for 15-minute or...

Interesting idea, 3decker! Ratmeister's concerns are valid; I'll note that mainline rail also: Has heavier rolling stock that's not ideal for stopping as frequently as light rail or metro Requires more crew per train Has longer trains (because train are designed for primarily sitting...