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To be fair, the map is further inaccurate for the other color lines. It'd be fine if it said "Transit", but, "Rapid" is a leap too far. Tourists might accidentally get the impression that transit could get them to their destinations quickly. 🙃

I'd consider that a good thing, or, at least, better than the reverse. The T ultimately answers to the state, and even if the T was highly interested, if the legislature (cough*the Speaker*cough) wasn't on board, it'd do no good. Obviously if the legislature were to mandate an electrification...

Now that's a question for the state legislature (whose madness, unfortunately, has long proven particularly incurable).

Pedestrian connection, looks like.

Might have more thoughts later, but there's something bizarrely jarring about the squared-off ends of the lines and the curved turns on some of the lines. Also, it'd probably good to have a box or shading or something to indicate the segment that's geographically-accurate and the parts that aren't.

If by "ran fine" you mean that they had little to no redundancy to handle any of the myriad problems that crop up on transit systems. That things didn't melt down so frequently (and recovered more quickly) when there were more, and more reliable, vehicles in operation doesn't mean that they...

Definitely. Chicago has (or had, at least) a fondness for the HRT-in-median approach, which added notably-longer walks through lower-density areas than their older elevated lines (which were usually more convenient...at least when they weren't as bogged-down in track work as the T...)

What even is this? (And does it have anything to do with the stated desire for Commuter Rail storage at Widett?)

Less than useless, pretty much. Amtrak has no interest in sending the Acela any further north than Boston. (I'll concede that they might, in an NSRL universe, consider an Anderson RTC station for extra northern catchment if they had a Woburn layover yard, but even then that'd more likely be the...

Roberts is ostensibly the name of the nearby neighborhood, but apart from real estate websites I don't think it's used much. (That was my regular commuting stop for a while, and, uh, I never knew - or cared - what it was referencing.) Eh, I like it as it is. It's simple and straightforward...

The #3 Red Line (01800 series) cars had a weird handful of those. I recall hearing "MIT Cambridge Center" (or something like that) at Kendall, a grafted-on "Mass Eye air Ear Infirmary" at Charles/MGH, and "Bayside Exposition Center" at JFK/UMass. I agree that it could be useful to have the...

Yeah, from the looks of things the problems, either with the infrastructure, the paperwork, or both, necessitated first the global speed restrictions while they figured out which sections needed what level of restrictions, and now we're dealing with those ongoing restrictions: only the global...

No, the last of the whole-line speed restrictions (Green's) implemented earlier this month are ending. The numerous slow zones...are still with us 😞

It's not the cars. I'm pretty sure the flats are 79-mph max and the bilevels are 90-max. Fitchburg had a ton of track work in the not so distant past, which might have something to do with it.

Did I miss where it was announced this had anything to do with the new cars?

Throw in some green to indicate a couple of the bigger parks, maybe add icons for a few of the major landmarks, and you've got the makings of a pretty decent geographic map that would work at least reasonably well as a schematic map. Obviously there's a limit to how far you can take this...

No. You'd need at least seven of them to electrify all the RI->BOS morning-weekday runs alone. More to the point, why on Earth would they bother? Unless they're going to get serious about electrification, dual modes make less than zero sense as anything but a (stupid) stunt. Does the Sharon...

I can't entirely say I agree. It's more like Covid blew off the vinyl siding, revealing that the wall underneath had been devoured by termites. Even if Covid hadn't derailed the gas tax hike, there's no guarantee that the money would have a.) gone mainly to the MBTA or b.) been spent...

"Starve the beast", but applied to a city. Certain industries cannot effectively be operated remotely, many derive considerable benefits from being located in specific places, and many more are very unlikely to go fully remote or redistribute outside the city without unending, ongoing...

And replace it with...what? Turn the ROWs into highways? Oh yeah, it can definitely get worse. If there was actual money to be made in public transit, someone would be doing it. I suppose it's might be theoretically possible to run a private system in Boston...except it would be far more...