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I think this design is physically impossible, and, if not, so wildly impractical that it makes no difference. Extending the old-alignment half of the Brattle Loop to connect to the Park Street end means plowing through, at minimum, the current Blue Line elevators and the stairs from the...

Appears to be a statue of Jerome Wheelock

Emergency exit at the north end of Medford/Tufts.

That's a good question. I seem to recall an incident (though probably a good 15+ years ago) where a passenger fell asleep on a GL train, wasn't noticed, and woke up with the train parked in Riverside yard, so it does seem like they don't always make sure everyone is completely off the trains...

They were definitely referring to SL Phase III (they mentioned one-seat rides from Roxbury to the Seaport/Airport as a project benefit). One imagines no one there knows just why that (indeed terrible) project died (or the reasons Washington St. transit and the Seaport service were...

Uh...is there a serious transit deficiency this would alleviate? There's been much discussion around here of various pitches to address Everett's transit needs (and occasionally Charlestown's). I have to say, I fail to see what would be particularly useful or helpful about a LRT line...

To be clear, my comment was about Government Center, and I think the elevator thing there was a state requirement, not necessarily federal ADA. I don't know if similar reasons are why Medford/Tufts' emergency exit wasn't made a full headhouse. I know in one of Baker & Company's value...

Yes My understanding is that they would have had to install elevators, which was presumably deemed excessive for a secondary entrance.

One hopes so...

Kinda. It's not really a partisan thing. (It's really more a structural thing with how the state House works, in that the Republicans have no power and the Democrats have no spine, so if the speaker of the day doesn't care, nothing gets done. But "blaming the governor" is more intuitive than...

Neither. The T is - viscerally - broken. Most people don't really care who's fault that is, they just want it fixed. It's not a Healey thing or a partisan thing, she just happens to be the incumbent at a time when things are bad. (Same as how presidents get blamed for bad economies even if it...

That...would really explain that annoying delay at the rental car center. It would certainly make a twisted kind of sense...not that having all the Blue Line shuttles also serve the RCC makes much sense.

Makes me wonder if the restrictions are in case of a runaway/rollback brake failure, or more "we don't trust the operators" on such a steep section without some external stop system, 'cause if it's the second one, that one's fixable.

That was three days ago, and had nothing apparent to do with the track issues. The GLX is back up and running.

And that principle worked fine when people still bought lots of newspapers. They have to pay people to write these things, and ads alone don't tend to fund particularly good journalism.

Good question (not that I think the T would bother). The Blue Line's signals are barely more sophisticated than the Green Line's (Blue's can at least stop trains that pass red signals), and in my understanding quite similar to those on the New York subway. I'm no expert, but I can't imagine...

That area with the light green added near the Haymarket platform is full of ancient support columns. I don't know how feasible reconstructing that area (which would be essential to making the turnback work) would be. I'm pretty sure that idea would have required obliterating and relocating all...

My ears are burning 🙃 I've never been convinced any kind of stub-end terminal is possible at all at Brattle. There's an enormous structural element along the track (covered by the cinderblock wall on the narrow end of the westbound track), where Scollay's north entrance used to be. Unlike...

Bowdoin basically has to get nuked to eliminate the atrocious speed restriction on the loop, though.

Because we can't have "anything". We can have anything that fits the infrastructure, and some designs don't. (The Boeings' front doors were unusable in MUNI's tunnels because the ends of the cars curved away from the platforms so as to fit in the T's tunnels, for one example of why pure off the...