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Obviously a ton of work's gone into this, so I'm a touch hesitant to immediately dump a bucket of cold water, but I'm getting major NYC Subway map vibes, and not in a good way. The double-thickness bus routes concept is, I think, quite a good way of visually indicating something that's more...

The whole point of the leadership and the committee system is to have the ability to coordinate things so that legislating isn't a constant ad hoc process. There's 40 members of the Senate, 160 in the House, it's not exactly easy to get them to agree on all that much of anything most of the...

Yeah, we will see how that goes. Part of the problem is that they had to cut the raised platform back because of how far the fronts of the cars stick out on that sharp curve. and there's still going to be at least some of that on the T10s, so I'm not completely confident.

Probably not. I have a sneaking suspicion the problem is the gap between the platform and the doors, which is enormous because of how sharp the curve on the loop is. (When they raised the platform in the renovation, they subsequently had to cut the raised platform back near the cinderblock wall...

That'd get kind of problematic when the end-to-end segments change, which happens every now and then, and add confusion with run-as-directeds and other irregular operations. The GL is basically, if incompletely, designated like a NYC subway line, where the color is in reference to the main...

The controller talking to the Alaska flight clearly anticipated getting AS389 out ahead of the United landing. That "no delay on the roll" language is common when they're trying to move them in tight timeframes (and it sounded like he said it again to Alaska). Still could be the case that they...

I don't think a governor can do that unilaterally. And it's harder to see the legislature having an appetite for wholesale privatization.

Trump Shuttle was the former Eastern shuttle, probably why that was in Terminal A, and I think it took a while until the ex-Trump Shuttle operation was merged into US Airways proper. Delta's shuttle I believe was originally Pan Am's competitor to Eastern's.

Delta was in C until the current Terminal A opened circa 2005. Continental moved to C from the original A (and moved back to A eventually prior to the United merger). The original A was relatively small in terms of gates, so it wasn't as big a loss (at a time when traffic was lower than it...

Huh, I guess that means there actually will be a Type 6 other than the mockup at Seashore, even if it's not actually a Green Line one... (The T's vehicle nomenclature continues to get weirder.)

There's so little space in there between A11 and B1 anyway that it's probably effectively impossible to shove another gate in there that doesn't block at least one of those two.

Makes perfect sense. If you're someone who can afford that price jump, you're someone Melrose would welcome 🙃 In all seriousness, though, while it is absolutely ridiculous how much the fare jumps from zone 1A to 1 (particularly since you can see Oak Grove from Wyoming. Actually, you can see...

It makes sense in a twisted way that screams "Massport didn't want to re-number a million gates". The B-numbered gates are just sequential, and crossing from B into C it goes C23, C24, C25, with the higher numbers out on the pier. Terminal C's numbering overall is very nonsensical, possibly...

It's in the B-C connector. That's a JetBlue flight number so I'm guessing it has Terminal C listed there because that's where JetBlue check-in would be. If it just said Gate B40, people might inadvertently go to Terminal B, and not be able to check in and check baggage. So it actually does make...

It's a shame Government Center doesn't have a loop with a convenient cross-platform transfer that could be used to help deal with some of the crowding that results. I was at GC this afternoon (before rush hour) and the first train that came in (probably five or so minutes max after the one I'd...

That red diagram was an embedded image, and all the stuff on top of it was separate layers, which made it a lot easier than I thought it would be to pull it out in Illustrator. No idea why that was done like that, but I'm glad it was.

The PDF linked by @stick n move had an excellent diagram of that area of old Haymarket, buried under a bunch of layers. I've rotated it to approximately match the orientation of the 3D version.

Trying to access that when it's busy (on the inbound side) would be pretty awkward. Copley's platform isn't super wide. (Though T riders are likely familiar with the awkwardness of single access points at platform ends.)

Is Metro finally back to automatic operation? They'd basically completely abandoned that after the 2009 crash.

Yeah, eastbound is interchangeable with northbound at GC. I think they still use eastbound/westbound as railroad directions operationally (which makes sense), even if the wayfinding signage at GC now says "North Station & North" on that side. There isn't room for that without taking the roof...