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- Newtonville has had a bunch of recent ToD surrounding the station with hundreds of units + more likely coming (~300 units at 78 Crafts St under 40B). It's IMO, not exactly sending a great signal to developers about how much you can rely on the MBTA service continuing to exist if you're...

I'm not saying you're wrong about the decline of intercity bus usage, but Daatco's service was pretty much a city commuter only service. 2019 service levels were: 3 trips per day weekdays (+1 on Fri), 0 trips on Sat, 1 trip on Sun. Mon-Thurs: Inbounds from NB were 5:00AM, 7:00AM, 3:00PM...

I'll also add in that the no service to T.F. Green on the weekends is frustrating, and rather puzzling of a decision from both a transit + a "encouraging the use of PVD" perspective. Airports are not substantially less busy on the weekends, and a glance at Flightradar24 suggests Saturday has...

I don't really see the problem here. Nothing about this is arguing that they've somehow offset aircraft emissions. The building was going to be built either way. Would it somehow be better if they built the building as unsustainably as possible? Build the thing out of 100% plastic, zero...

They are, but it will be pretty much the last thing to be built or reopened. Quick source from the 11/14/23 presentation: https://www.mass.gov/doc/north-washington-street-bridge-public-information-presentation-111423/download "Lovejoy Walkway beneath the bridge structure will not be...

Pure anectdata, and I'm not going to claim this is a large portion of ridership (but may be a more substantial amount of daily garage occupancy), but - I have started using Wonderland as airport parking. My observation based on seeing more than a few other people with suitcases the times I do...

As built, the garage had 2,733 spaces. The MBTA website says current capacity is 2,471 spaces and the possibility of "additional spaces closed for construction". Unless we're counting some of the ways they used to try to cram in extras for overflow parking (like on the loop ramps), that appears...

Given that this corridor/region appears to have near-zero road delays even at rush hour, the very modest ridership projections, and the twisty nature of the rail line, reading this over....this project to me feels kind of like one of the "why are we not starting with a bus" projects. Route 2...

Seems unlikely to work, to me. Historically it was slow, taking nearly 24 hours to cover 730mi. The driving route is roughly 70mi shorter and takes about 10hrs. You've also got the ferry (Bar Harbor-Yarmouth NS) and flights from Boston to compete with. Halifax has pre-clearance so there's...

I sometimes feel like a broken record here but: ....does the public support any of those ideas? An initial glance at the area and the history of this project + public opposition to prior concepts makes me rather skeptical. Nearby single-family housing neighborhoods are usually unlikely to be...

I think you have a good point on the visuals - after some level of accessibility, the subway map should just say "unless specifically noted, all stations on this map are accessible", and then a handicap symbol w/a prohibitory icon over it for the few exceptions. You don't need the visual clutter...

At least by poking around on Google Street View: The ROW is pretty much entirely unfenced and has a large section of it's run where there's lots of unauthorized pedestrian crossings at many different points, many of which have bad sight lines for both pedestrian + train operator. Pretty much...

- Suffolk Downs needs a lot of infrastructure work. The "Beachmont Square" promo for the first part of the project PDF here claims "$337m in on + offsite infrastructure investment" in building out Suffolk Downs. Presumably, a good portion of that is going to be front-loaded costs that are going...

First - nice work! Hoboken-Lower Manhattan - PATH is going to be crush-loaded at peak for at least the Exchange Place-WTC leg of the journey, which most people don't enjoy even if it is only 5-10min. I do generally have the impression that the ferry route is slightly more reliable in...

The Concord rotary is a bottleneck. The reason you have people taking all sort of conceptually bizarre routes to avoid it is because of the drastic difference in the road capacity of Route 2 on either side of it vs the throughput of the Concord rotary, and the degree to which that specific point...

Is there a reason to believe that cutting lanes in the throat would reduce cost in any remotely significant way? I see basically no reason to think that would be the case. The bike path whether on boardwalk or not is cheap (in relative terms), and so is a lane-mile of at-grade asphalt. The...

600V is fine enough, I agree. "Low-voltage" as a commonly used term in the US in my experience, is usually referring to <50V, which usually has much less in terms of regulations in terms of how + where you can run it. (ex: The guy pulling network cables typically doesn't need to be a licensed...

I like in-route charging and think it has merit, but uh - you're not going to charge a bus in any useful way from "low-voltage" wires unless they're very thick, very heavy, and very expensive. Volts x Amps = Watts is not really a negotiable formula.

The national average of projects in comparable settings or not? The "average" piece of railroad track for the nation is likely in a rural area with zero challenges for access, working space, quality of life concerns for abutters, wetlands, etc. It'll also likely see a lower volume of usage, and...

This isn't necessarily disagreement, but adding for some discussion: - 2017 is relatively recent, takes a while to get plans/projects started, especially in places not that "hot" of a market. I'm not sure I'd expect to see that huge of a "bonus" gain from the removal of the parking minimum yet...