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I mean, the broadest point is that the T's failing where things like the MWRA and Massport aren't because they have money and the T doesn't. If the legislature just used enough of its tax revenue that the T wasn't perpetually starved of funds we wouldn't be in this position, in the same way that...

I'm shocked, shocked... Seriously, this is absolutely the most MBTA thing: a pilot program that ended, one has to wonder whether they even really remembered these things were there, extremely likely that if anyone knew, or even if anyone saw these things, they were always "somebody else's...

And that's what I get for not doing enough research 🙃 It's interesting (and about time) to have a carrier like JetBlue challenging the legacies on those routes.

I'd be interested to see if they add Paris. While there's technically two carriers on that route, Delta and Air France, in effect there's really only one given that both of them are part of the Delta-Air France-KLM-Virgin Atlantic joint venture, so they're economically operating as one unit...

Since when? OL was re-routed (though with the same southern endpoint) in '87, the northern endpoint changed (and was extended) in the 70s. Blue's route has been static since the 50s, quite different from Orange.

Not a comment on the merits, but my initial reaction was "yeah, what this project needs is another cost increase..."

It's something like a bit over 600 feet between Bowdoin's entrance and the emergency exit from the Blue Line level at Government Center. IIRC, the plan was originally to make that an official headhouse during the GC renovation before being scrapped on cost grounds (it would need to be made...

Not really. "Exists somewhere in the world" is not meaningfully relevant to "exists in the US". Multiple US transit agencies (including the MBTA repeatedly) have encountered severe difficulties in introducing new technologies in rail vehicles when attempting to import overseas designs (or use...

I doubt it's particularly unique. Chicago's CTA starts service quite early, even on weekends, as does MARTA in Atlanta and BART in San Francisco (at least on Saturdays, and at least on some lines). Metrorail in Washington has always had an element of being a hybrid commuter rail/rapid transit...

I've never understood why the cards expire like that, and why apparently the only place than can help is the CharlieCard store at DTX. I feel like that might be more to do with technical issues with the original AFC system than an MBTA decision, but I don't know, and it's extremely stupid either...

I think part of the issue is in presenting things as if oversight and internal culture are independent of each other. I would agree to an extent with JeffDowntown that you can't really force quality through external oversight. I think that's overstating things a bit, because competent quality...

I mean, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they didn't investigate this one, but they don't tend to be dismissive of safety concerns in their reports (they tend to be politely if noticeably annoyed when the actual regulatory agencies ignore their recommendations). I fully agree that the...

No clue what in that quote you're responding to.

I get the satirical point, though I am legitimately curious as to whether this one would be big enough to draw the NTSB's interest. (Seeing as how it sounds like the tanker hit a car that had a blowout or something, it seems like more "freak accident" than anything else.)

Am I misremembering, or is part of the problem with AFC 2.0's snail-pace rollout Cubic having its hands full with OMNY?

I don't know if FTA standards are necessarily more stringent, so much as the FRA's least-stringent track classification has a 10 mph max speed restriction but also forbids passenger trains of any kind (for a while I think the Grand Junction fell into that dubious category at least in parts...

Keolis' ham-handed faregate installation is part of that. At least they patched the glitch where you could re-use the same (single ride) ticket over and over...after they put the gates in service (seems like a pretty obvious problem that should have been anticipated pre-rollout). I suppose too...

I don't know the answer to this, though it's worth noting that the CR is under a different regulatory regime than the RT system (FRA versus FTA).

But, again, that's not baked into the state constitution. There's like eighty million Democrats in the state house, if they (well, a majority of them, at any rate) decided that they didn't like living under the Speaker's petty dictatorship, they can change the rules. You're not wrong about the...

I'd add "tell your rep to fix the House's warped power structure", it's not as though there's any legal reason the House Speaker is so absurdly powerful.