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It's a pity we already have the Orange Line, otherwise we could keep the Central Subway routes as Green, and bring back traction orange for the streetcar ones running to Congress. I'd like to see an orange and cream Type 10 (mmm...creamsicles...)

I suppose it's possible, but ideology is a powerful drug in and of itself.

Maintenance? We did that 20 years ago! Wait...what do you mean we need to do it regularly? 🙃 EDIT: I don't know specifically what's up on that stretch of Red, but given how much they've let their infrastructure rot, I wouldn't be surprised if it needs work.

I didn't say they shouldn't complain, or that it wasn't a horrible look. You implied the carrier was substandard without evidence (unless "substandard" is defined as "never lost a load for any reason ever"). You ascribed the situation to the MBTA (which is untrue unless you ascribe actions of...

I've seen some of those intersections badly gridlocked, albeit pre-pandemic. I'll maintain some skepticism that signal prioritization would be sufficient for dealing with some of those crossings. Of course, the existing Green Line has connections to Red and Blue, and in Blue's case, it's a...

Wow. That's some jumping to conclusions... According to the previously-posted link, the carrier was hired by CRRC (which makes sense, given the T takes delivery at Wellington), and, by my read, contains zero evidence to support the assertion that the carrier was substandard (to be clear, they...

I don't know how deep the Transitway is at the South Station platforms, but the incline's going to chew up probably several hundred feet on the surface, though I'd imagine there's probably enough running room for an incline from the surface at Congress down to the platform level. But if you run...

Yup. BBC News link from 2014 about that fairly epic dang-it.

I don't particularly care, in the abstract, whether we sacrifice road capacity for transit, but those roads - and particularly those intersections - are a minefield. I don't know how manageable schedule-keeping would be on this thing (especially at peak road traffic times), which isn't...

Hard to tell if there's enough room to shiv tracks in there at all (particularly on the outbound side where the existing GL is about at its closest to the Leverett onramps). Given that we'd be talking about a junction on or adjacent to one of the steepest inclines on the GL, I think it'd be...

Gonna have to disagree with you there. That spot's where the Logan Express buses pick up from Terminal C, and that roof is definitely beneficial to people waiting (especially the ones with dogs).

The chapel itself is pre-security. I'm not sure how much more of that area is accessible. (I'm blanking on whether there was ever an indoor pre-security connector between B and C there on the second level.)

As far as I can tell, the old tower barely overlapped with the adjacent parts of the terminal. It was mostly over the access roads. That chunk of Terminal C adjacent to where that tower was does not appear to have been significantly altered externally (though there's a new facade where the...

I'd agree that it's probably parts of Terminal C. It's the oldest terminal left, and I think basically built on top of its predecessor, and the former Terminal D wing (at least on the street side, near where the Logan Express buses pick up) definitely hasn't seen quite the same level of...

As I recall, there was still some decent availability of pre-security food options at least in Terminal C until relatively recently. (I don't know if that had to do with the fact that there were those gates in their own little area without much in the way of retail space, and of course that...

With them apparently making Providence a focus city, I'd be somewhat surprised to see them try and enter Boston, at least for a bit.

Admittedly I didn't look very hard, but I didn't even see any actual announcements of the service re-starting, just reports of Hainan's filing with the feds last month that they intended to restart. Obviously it seems like those plans changed, but if they hadn't actually announced and opened the...

I couldn't find any indication that any of their Dreamliners are operating to Boston today, so I'm gonna go with they probably delayed the restart of service.

I don't think they ever said that the Orange Line would never close anymore for work. Even if they had said that and intended it, it'd just rot from insufficient maintenance until they had to shut it down again.

You could probably design a drain into a pipe that empties away from any of the important components under the cab, but you'd either need a really long, flexible (complicated) sewer hose (which would likely be prone to freezing in places that got cold enough) or just dump into the shaft like old...