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There are a lot of little things I'd criticize about the new design. Food vendors would help for sure. I can think of some other changes I'd make. But FWIW, every time I go by, it's been busy and pretty well used. The new space seems especially good for the farmers market and whatever other...

The new connection to the bus terminal still isn't open, as of a couple of days ago when I went by. It didn't even look like they were set up to be working on anything. Work on the pedestrian experience in and around our biggest transit hub continues to look pretty half-assed. SST should not...

But they did install an elevator on the Lyric side that takes you down to the platforms. It's just not open. That's not enough for an "accessible path of travel to the platforms?" This is one station I've had to use a bunch lately and actually really needed an elevator. It's frustrating seeing...

They're planning a bike/pedestrian bridge over the commuter rail tracks, so people can more easily get to Alewife Station. There's a thread for this project, and you can see some renders of the bridge there...

Ok, jumping back to this article kind of late, but it covers so much of the bad logic regularly thrown into the millionaires tax debate. Keep these in mind the next time a bad article on this inevitably comes out. Just for this article, it is ostensibly about broader conversations of the...

Thanks! I took your advice. If I thought they'd publish it, I'd have spent another ten minutes on it, but it gets the point across. It seems lots of people took issue with that article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/28/opinion/letters-wealthy-bemoan-mass-millionaires-tax/ I still kind of...

Apparently MBTA plans to charge $75 for train tickets for World Cup games. (I think that's round trip, but the article is actually phrased a little weird.) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7150121/2026/03/26/boston-gillette-stadium-train-tickets-world-cup/

If Boston annexs Newton then Boston College will finally be in Boston. Seems only fair. But seriously, why draw the line at those two? Expanding Boston make a lot of sense but I have no idea where I'd draw lines.

No one has touched this thread in almost a year?! Fixing that: There's been a bunch of discussion here lately about Compass Rail and East-West Rail. It's all fixing up existing infrastructure, which is obviously the right thing to do. But I have been thinking about what it would look like if...

For complicated, interconnected transportation planning, it's kind of hard to say definitively what was "intended." But for a lot of the people involved, yeah, I don't doubt that the current state is basically what was intended. Real rapid transit moved to richer and whiter neighborhoods and...

It appears this was actually enacted 2023. Did something new happen with this? It's incentives for towns to voluntarily change their zoning to allow smaller homes. Has any town actually taken up the offer?

To maybe put your mind at ease, the question of "Do the rich move in response to higher taxes?" has be studied a lot. And the answer is always the same: Yes, a very tiny number of millionaires will move. Think a fraction of a percent. Overwhelmingly rich people don't move in response to taxes...

I'm thinking over how well this really works. I'm starting to come around, but I'm working on questions. Regardless, the map just looks really nice! How are you making this? And I think it would be a little clearer if you label which stations would have transfers to Commuter Rail. Some I think...

I have no sense of how expensive this stuff is. Could you (or anyone) put $1.3M in context? What does that actually buy?

I'm confused. @3decker is citing 30tph on the Munich S-Bahn. You're citing 27tph, down from a max of 30tph, on the Paris RER A. Practically, for this conversation, you're coming to the same numbers. What are you nitpicking here? Perfect! I'm glad you had that number on hand. Munich is the...

Timing with a westbound Lake Shore Limited? Yeah, maybe. Timing with an eastbound Lake Shore Limited? lol

Those numbers need some context, though. Here's how they came to those numbers (page 52): So they are assuming the tunnels could handle 22tph per track, which is roughly what other real-world systems get. But, they say, bottlenecks in our system drastically reduce that. Apparently, part of...

Where are you getting these numbers from? 35 sounds a little low for quad-tracked NSLR, but not crazy off. At that pace, though, you'd be assuming almost a 10 minute dwell for Amtrak, which sounds too high. Just curious. Also, the existing surface North Station would still be open, so the north...

Oh yeah, I'm guessing we have pretty similar understandings of this, but I'll try to answer your question. The overwhelming primary purpose for the Boston-Springfield-Albany service is to improve frequencies throughout the day at those (and intermediate) stops. We need enough options through...

Yeah, that's right. I should have been clearer. I think four is the maximum number of trains you'd ever need to time together at this station. Because the routes are not straight N-S annd E-W, the true number is probably less, I think only three. I think that's fine, BTW. What will probably be...