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CA's solar + battery boom has been impressive, at least by US standards. The PNW has been a disaster.

I mean, that looks like it's probably 50ft from the tracks. The fence itself looks to be ~15ft from them. Operating within the MBTA property/track envelope there obviously are restrictions, but it seems unlikely that you can really have more restrictions than that on what you can do with...

I don't have any details so this is guesswork, but: I don't think that's really the issue here. Power is not so expensive in New England as to make electric trains too expensive to operate for that reason. I don't think whatever rate Amtrak is charging is really having it's costs being driven...

I think the problem with this argument is that school buses in a sense exist for the same reason that public schools exist. To reduce barriers to receiving an education. Maybe we shouldn't have built the sprawl, but it's there and there's children who need to be educated who live there. I...

To be fair, those generally lack other major transit options besides local bus. Boston Landing only had the mediocre-frequency 64 before and a decent hike to the 86 or 57/66. And none of those will get you downtown quickly, which is where the Boston Landing service gets you. Fairmount is...

Montreal does a great job, and yes it's municipal. Fundamentally I think it's not something that makes much sense to devolve to landowners. Especially in a city where the city builds, designs, and maintains the sidewalks in every other sense. 100,000 random people are never going to do a good...

Vogtle Unit 3 took 14 years to begin operation from the start and at incredibly high cost. Looking around the world, new nuclear builds seem to be increasingly climbing in cost and delays. Almost nowhere in the West appears to be having these projects go well, cheaply, or quickly. Even many...

I like to posit the opposite question: What makes you think the absence of an over/underpass is preferable to having one? Generally speaking an overpass is taking some significant percentage of the traffic volume and putting it somewhere where someone who is a pedestrian or cyclist doesn't have...

With another big cold spell almost a year apart, it'll be interesting to see what looks different in the patterns. It already seems obvious that the NECEC and the wind additions are having some effects. We're currently over 5GW of imports and the NECEC has been importing at/near ~1.2GW...

This data looks pretty terrible and like it agrees more with the bike skeptics than the promoters. I don't get this headline at all or why Streetsblog thinks this is particularly positive. These are largely poor usage statistics and appear to strongly agree with those who argue that bike lanes...

I'm not exactly supportive of the idea but if the cordon is narrowly defined and (unlike NYC's implementation) you only charge it at all during the actual peak weekday hours, I don't know that it really impacts any significant # of lower-income people. Boston both is and is not like NYC in...

No? More transfers are viewed as a more inconvenient trip in every place on the planet that I have been. Being on the same vehicle for an hour is simply much less effort and stress than having to transfer multiple times is for the average person. And crucially, it's also fewer points for...

Most buildings have always been built to the lowest common denominator of their day. Brighton's full of triple-deckers that were the cheapest thing you could build when they were built (and are even more flammable than these). Still looks like.....a vibrant neighborhood full of people to me.

Ah, so complaining about the most cost-effective form of construction in the country, and one of the only things that's actually helping the housing shortage + getting more units built and more people to be able to live in cities.

What is your complaint about it?

So how are we feeling about committing to the 400ft platform length, and thus not being allowed to run trains longer than 4 cars to the station? It feels like it can't possibly save that much money and is just going to unnecessarily limit the MBTA's options in the long run.

Looks like they've got two customers already waiting in line.

This doesn't sound like anything "AI". This sounds like an automated testing machine + the most basic data analysis there is. All they're doing is setting threshold values to trigger alerts. This is all fine and good and I'm glad they're doing it, no criticism of that. It just has no more...

This is still one of the lowest load times of year for our region, and it's been much windier and (I think) sunnier than usual which doesn't hurt either. On that site, go change to the "last 12 months" view at the bottom left and then look at the monthly electricity net flow for New...

It's been listed as far back as at least 2010 as a project necessary for achieving a "state of good repair" - https://www.ctps.org/mbta-pmt (Appendix H, page H-2). So while I entirely agree that I've never seen a word mentioned about it before (nor can I find anything about the bidding) it has...