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Pretty sure that's from the slide deck from the presentation of the T's EMU RFI to the board a couple years ago. I don't know if it's Stadler's work or not, but it's something. (I particularly like how literally zero effort was taken to make the T logos match the perspective, they're just...

Reads like it was written by someone who has no idea how any of the details work. To be fair, while the specific dates are wildly unrealistic in and of themselves, that error is something that is easily fixed by legislative fiat (feels like the kind of thing that'd get modified after its first...

I'm curious if it's the ADA proper or the state-level regulations on top of it. It sounds like the problem with rebuilding the stairs is that if they touch them, that would trigger the need to make it and that entrance in particular fully accessible, which they clearly haven't geared up for yet...

I mean, yeah, if nothing changes politically, nothing's going to change with regards to the Silver Line. Political decisions are inherently subject to change. Should the political winds shift, whether due to advocacy, shifting coalitions, or just the vagaries of what specific power-brokers...

Ultimately it's not up to them. The T doesn't make those decisions, the state does. If the politicians should come around to thinking that the Silver Line is woefully insufficient (admittedly, politicians' collective ability to recognize reality is something of a crapshoot), then it doesn't much...

That's Amtrak's track geometry car Corridor Clipper. Usually runs on the T's lines a couple of times a year.

Boylston's geometry makes that prospect difficult. The merge from track 3 to track 4 (eastbound fence and wall tracks) is midway along the outbound platform. You'd either have to somehow share space on Track 4 between the LRVs and the buses, or cross the buses over from 4 to 3 (which isn't...

It's a two-things-can-be-true-at-once kind of service. It's objectively better in a number of ways than the T's standard bus service, while at the same time (particularly on the Washington Street end) being inferior to both other forms of rapid transit (which the T pretends it is) and to what...

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a dedicated thread for the MBTA's successes? We wouldn't need more than one thread for that. (Honestly not sure if this deserves a /s or not... 🙃)

Interesting post. One point I want to bring up that I think has specific relevance for transit station naming, is that, ideally, a station/stop name will concisely and uniquely identify its location for wayfinding purposes. (See the previous discussion about Aquarium, for instance. "Long Wharf"...

Yeah, but the clearance under Seaport Boulevard's quite a bit higher than the deck level of the Northern Avenue bridge (probably how it could be built as a fixed span). I agree that a fixed span for the Northern Avenue replacement is probably possible, just that it probably requires more than a...

Would there be any problem doing that given that the current bridge is a (locked-open) swing bridge? I feel like the feds might have some issues with sticking a fixed bridge over what I think is still technically a navigable waterway. (And rebuilding the approaches to have a higher fixed span...

Did I miss the T acquiring that stretch of line? I thought it was still CSX/Pan Am/whichever shell company the blue behemoth out of Jacksonville is using today. Even besides the ever-present annoyance of CSX freight disruptions (and they're not particularly prone to caring about whether their...

The Fens I could go with. We already have a Back Bay. BHCC's paid the T for ads before, right? (Or am I misremembering which of the eighty thousand ads for colleges I've seen?) Sell them a naming rights deal, call it Bunker Hill Community College station. (Otherwise, yes, absolutely keep the...

It is kind of a neat trick to manage to make both a bridge and a flood barrier that ugly at the same time. I see the City Hall-school of architecture isn't quite dead yet...

Looking at the original photo, it almost looks as though that map is itself a sticker. Could they really have put a sticker on top of a sticker??? Yup, that's the official design. Very poor design liable to cause confusion, and it's not like they didn't know how to separate branches on a line...

I may be alone in this, but I kind of like Fenway having that name. The confusion about proximity to the ballpark isn't good, exactly, but I've known it to have at least a little benefit in terms of diverting some traffic from Kenmore after games (and, uh, post-game Kenmore doesn't need more...

Until its renovation within the past few years, there was at least one sign at Oak Grove indicating that Chinatown would become accessible "later in 1990/91". They seem to have a particularly bad habit of leaving maps and signs untouched in stations that haven't been renovated. Hynes doesn't...

Like, I can sort of get why it might take a bit to replace things like that Green Line map if it's not a sticker (it almost looks as though there was a sticker over it that got removed/vandalized, but it's a little hard to tell), especially if they don't want to constantly use stickers to update...

Yup. Pretty sure most if not all of their fleet is ex-Norwegian Dreamliners. So, literally the same planes flying the same routes in some cases. Only they painted them blue this time instead of red.