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Im here nearly every day to commute via the 65, 66, or by bike, and the biggest issue with any traffic congestion is the pretty terrible light cycle timing. Doing my best to annotate on an iPhone on an old image but the problem is that there are a lot of backups trying to take the left onto...

At the very least this part isnt that big of a deal besides the single-seat convenience (though first-hand experience tells me a decent amount of South Shore nurses will switch to driving cause they refuse to use the subway or MBTA buses). The JFK-South Station transit time is about par between...

Somehow they dont see the irony in claiming making all spots 15min only would fix everything but also that they themselves ignore the current 30min limit. They then claim they want people to come and stay in the neighborhood patroning their business but also want people to get ticketed for their...

The new Dedham East St bridge structure is officially in place and carrying Franklin/Foxboro trains as well as a daily CSX move over it

I mean decades of leadership that didn't prioritize maintenance and safety, leading to the current leadership having to clean up the mess, and, as the directive states, it's better to leave all ceilings open until safety inspections are completed than risk more falling just cause aesthetics

This is unfortunately the least blurry picture i grabbed of the Dedham East St bridge replacement through the train window but the new bridge deck is almost completely assembled.

I honestly kinda think it would've been more worthwhile going all-in on Leo M. Birmingham instead of Soldiers Field Rd. But it's too late for this now: This whole bit is a mess for everyone involved But what if Soldiers Field was reconfigured to more directly interface with Market St. with...

A personal anecdote but I've biked this stretch many times to commute southbound out of the city from Brighton, and every single time bar a few I've encountered at least one other poor sap biking it. It's the most logical way to get to/from Lee St. and subsequently Newton-Allandale-VFW's...

What does he even mean? Focus on the T but also focus less on getting people to their jobs where most of the jobs are?

Park St isn't a flat station but on a not-insignificant incline north. If the lead train was a Type 7, the foot controls are a bit weird and can roll back if the operator has released the brakes (or not applied them enough) and not got on the power right away. I've been on many a train that has...

It was also stated in the meeting that all scheduling stuff is based off of simulated running and computer models of service that they will adjust the schedules over time with actual service. It was in response to the public Q&A segment because someone specfically asked about the overall journey...

They currently run 2-3 trainsets active on the Fairmount in conjunction with a handful of Franklin Line trains and one Stoughton throughout the day to achieve their 30min headways with the caveat of not including Readville in the "30min all day." Turning around an electric train as opposed to a...

Apparently Keolis is requesting 7 battery trains. Thats far more than needed for the Fairmount so its safe to say theyre serrioisly gearing up to test them out on the Stoughton as planned

Once again I managed to get caught up in this. I showed up at 2:10pm to take Franklin Line train 1709 only to find that inbound Providence Line train out there had derailed halfway through a switch between what looked like the 3rd/4th cars. My train scheduled for 2:17 didnt depart until 3:23...

The most easy of these for the MBTA to pull off would be Milford though it isn't the most important. I personally know more than a dozen people who either daily or semi-regularly drive to Forge Park or Southborough to commute from there and it is a town rapidly catching Franklin in population...

Last available data for the 104/109 combined via Transitmatters was 7,775 second week of October '24. 1400 is 18% of that from one segment of one of those routes so that's pretty good. Almost 1 in 5 riders. Though I'd assume the ridership from the separated and consolidated routes would be...

From a BNRD project update email today: - About 1400 daily riders using the 104 segment to the Airport. - Phase 1 required 60 additional bus operator hires above prior service (320 total for the routes involved)

I was in Franklin Line train #726 in the middle of this. We passed the Forest Hills interlocking just south of the station at around 5:53pm right on schedule where we came to a halt, and there we sat until ~7:45pm when we were finally given clearance to reverse all the way back to Readville to...

Would it be any worse than what exists now with having to cross slip lanes to enter a subway station? You wouldn't need a Florida sized SPUI because it wouldn't be interfacing with 8 Florida lanes of traffic but rather maintain the existing number of lanes and can eliminate the slip lanes...

For anyone wondering what's up with fare inspection Those 16 "Fare Engagement Representatives" from October were just to inform people and remind them about fares not do the enforcement and citation yet. Starting on the GLX sometime this year they will begin randomly checking for those...