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welcome the worst kind of capitalist to the presidency and here we are.

Looking at the slides and report now. It seems like it's a Route 2 (major) and Essex county (minor) travel market. The use case though is dependent on the next development cycle -- the Cambridge zoning plan has development projections showing: ~24,400 jobs ~16,900 residents

https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/Transportation/transitcommittee/2026/02feb/2025_02_05_tacslides_a_ncbeb.pdf https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2025-09-30-alewife-commuter-rail-demand-study.pdf

Given that they're already starting from a place of outsourcing the monitor and intervening process - I do wonder how much, as Waymo scales, especially to places like Boston, this may mean financially sustainablity is dependent on a Matrix-like farm of cubicle workers monitoring and intervening.

A lot of people like the novelty - but - a lot of people in SF hate them because they crash out in the most inopportune times and locations. This kind of video pops up in my group chat with some friends who live in the Bay Area about once or twice a month and people mock the cars. There was a...

The presentation and report is posted. The key figure is 800 to 1200 riders per weekday - somewhere near the top 10 stations in 2024. If they get to 30 minute service on the Fitchburg line nearly 2200 riders which would be near the top 5 of stations in 2024. Lots of hemming and hawing in the...

That's not that overwhelmingly difficult - much of Montreal's haulage in the innercity to sewer access locations where they dump locally collected snow into the sewer system for treatment. It's akin to those "built-in" vaccum systems with access locations throughout an area.

Local government is not some how magically more just or more democratic. See all the sundown towns of yesteryear (and also look at how unintegrated they often remain to this day).

The Trump administration has been overwhelming arbitrary in its use of those powers. So arbitrary that their flalling attempts are recognized by the courts as not legal. Meanwhile, the cities and towns that are out of compliance have had the time since Governor Baker's administration to...

Didn't see that they had specified the busway like that. I breezed through reviewing that document again - but - did they specify why? I don't see much of any discussion on benefits or drawbacks of the northern side being that, at least in the T's words.

Seems like an enhanced pergola around the faregates would be sufficient if the issue is wind-driven snow in a big atrium like space

Obviously, the marketing departments see that billionaires are pumping billions into "AI" - so they lemming what their billionaire (and soon trillionaire) bosses are going for.

I think you're right in that they haven't worked out the operations sufficiently. They really should have one-way flow and maybe some of the tape-like ribbon barriers for crowd control. My experience of the London terminals is that they're all pretty bad at this and the management is really all...

I would expect that it's because the station is on the west/north side of the underpass so it might tie in better on that side of the street? I don't see how the work the northern end of things tho.

The reason that many housing authorities are below Faircloth limits is that they cannot pull together sufficient funding to replace/rehabilitate those units without also going over the faircloth. Bidens HUD tried to come up with some new models, but BHA was not seemingly positioned to meet the...

As far as I can search, the news reports have nothing to say what their purpose was in the parking area. Looking at the timetable though, there's a couple of trains at the top of the 2 p.m. hour that serve the station. Even on that horrible weather day, there were still trains running and...

Most cafes in Cambridge a hybrid cafe/restaurant because coffee and pastries just doesn't make rent. I can't think of a coffee shop nearby that doesn't have some sort of kitchen - except Dunks. 1369, bom dough, Cicada, the children of Darwin-Asaro/Citrus. The only true coffee/pastries with...

This seems to be common with European operators. I guess this continues the tradition of the French heavily discounting winter much to their chagrin.

Interesting - I wonder if there's a document with that specification (or the T's requirements for the procurement?). My experience in Ottawa was that their fare gates, while not in a building, are better protected from the cold, snow, and ice than South Station's vaulted passageway.

Ok - I don't think I saw that when I was there. The original assertion seemed odd to me. But, did you catch a source for the fact check too? Or was that also an assertion by someone claiming some "secret knowledge"?