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A survey was done by the city in 2021 on what mode Seaport commuters use to get to work and the pre-pandemic mode share of Seaport workers who drove alone was 20%. Survey had 29% say they'd drive in after the pandemic but I'd imagine the reality is a lot of those jobs remained WFH, resulting in...

I mean it's only a single weekend

I think the prime candidates to get cut back would be the 30 and 51. Both serve as crosstown/circumferential routes connecting neighborhoods rather than feeder routes, and what little feeding they do in proximity to Forest Hills wouldn't be needed if passengers can transfer at Roslindale Village...

Even if they spend billions of dollars to electrify the regional rail system, that doesn't change the fact that people still need to pay hundreds a month on a car to be able to access their basic necessities in most of the state. Keeping the cost of the regional rail the exact same won't move...

Ive long held the opinion that the real key to increasing regional rail ridership, reducing highway traffic, and decreasing pollution in the city of Boston is rather than making buses free, using the same money the state would need to allocate to that to instead subsidize much reduced regional...

You cant be proactive on how many passengers will be at each stop, how long they will take to board, cars blocking tracks despite train having green (Hardvard Ave), operator operational variability, emergency vehicles changing signal phases (E on Huntington), etc, all across 4 lines. Dispact...

You're confusing Type III with Type V (of the infamous 5 over 1) construction. Type III construction uses a non-combustible exterior material like brick and stone around fire-retardant-treated exterior wooden framing members. The A vs B is whether or not the interior framing members need...

Just a minute ago I saw the NEBR at Readville taking delivery of 2 BEBs on flatbed trailer trucks. There were about 7 total battery buses sitting in the lot

My drawing is rough but the three lanes don't start at High it starts at the bus stop, same as the existing lane configuration. I was trying to illustrate the traffic fanning out into the lanes at the bus stop not that they'd already be in 3 lanes at High. Also I realize my following street...

I am here nearly every single day, often multiple times per day, to transfer between 65, 66, 39, E, or D and the automobile compliance with the bus lane is absolutely abysmal. Every single light cycle during rush hour the bus lane is completely blocked by cars and even when there is a Brookline...

Id understand the reason to be a combination of the stated change from the side platform being the responsibility of the WRA who owns the station, to the MBTA, making it something not in the original budget plans, and the unknown of East-West Rail/Albany service characteristics causing ADA...

I read this whole damn thing the other day which was published and presented back in January of this year. I can only see this as another case of people supposedly very invested and concerned about the project not actually engaging with it any more than minimally. According to the planning...

Most of the driver number make-up has been going towards trying to simultaneously make progress on BNRD. On top of which, maintaining headways with worsening traffic is requiring more operators to be used on more buses for existing routes. Just Phase 1 of BNRD required 50 of the 200 or so newly...

MassDOT traffic counts for this area show the most used segment of roadway is the left-turning segment of Boylston St onto Charlesgate by nearly 10,000 vehicles over the second highest count, which is the exit of Bowker onto Boylston. Of note though is 13,000 cars are simply exiting onto Comm...

I was skeptical that the ridership would remain after the free parking ended because I figured those who got in a car to drive to the train anyway would just drive all the way to the city if the alternative was $4 parking + $24 in fares every day. Very positive showing of the demand for the rail...

Out of curiosity, I was wondering how much ridership has increased with the SCR extension over the Middleboro/Lakeville Line. The MBTA has daily estimated boarding for the commuter rail lines up through the end of July 2025 so I did a quick sort without filtering weekends dating back to July...

Personal experience as a 34E rider, there have been suddenly an influx of people taking the 34E to work and hangout at Dedham Plaza and Legacy Place. Lots of teens after school each day heading inbound to get to those two locations up until summer break where i now assume theyre going midday...

Very blurry from a scuffed train window on my way home but it looks like there's full depth track construction going on at Widett Circle which i can only assume is for future BEMU storage and layover. This is just before (south of) the Amtrak maintenance shed

I responded to the survey with feedback and emailed the project team a slightly more polished version of the above. I hope it is viewed by someone and helps them get a better idea of daily conditions. Speaking of the fire station, another observation/thought is when fire trucks leave or return...