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Different project. See https://archboston.com/community/threads/roads-and-highways-general-development-thread.6872/post-500400

A pity the plan doesn't include fixing that ludicrous high-speed crossover between MVP eastbound and the ramp from Main St towards 93.

Pretty clearly they're trying to optimize for people coming out from Boston, so turning at South Acton makes sense.

You know what would be awesome? If the T and the Seastreak ferry service coordinated their schedules so that you could reasonably do a car-free day trip to Martha's Vineyard via New Bedford. Right now the ferry's summer Saturday morning schedule has a ferry leaving right when a train arrives...

All photo links broken.

Wow, that is literally scaffolding.

Just east of the bridge; it's a small tunnel. I remember seeing it on the plans.

The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Rte. 2 in Concord included a wildlife crossing under 2 as part of the project.

Probably because they know perfectly well the Late for Sure Limited is going to get to Worcester hours behind schedule after trundling 1000 miles from Chicago and they don't want people assuming otherwise.

The obvious solution for historical signs like this is a plaque that says something like "This is a historical sign"

Someone caught the Wendell derailment on video. It's like watching a train wreck.

Looking at the damage to the Type 7 vs. the Type 8, I know which one I'd rather be on in a crash.

Electric buses don't "putter". :)

I really like this headhouse design, it's similar to Aquarium's. I like headhouses where it's obvious that you're going underground.

Oh, that's interesting, they're planning to replace the existing Appalachian Trail bridge over the Pike with a combined trail and wildlife crossing. That'll require some clever design. From the grant statement: I kind of doubt that they're going to design in separate trails for thru-hikers and...

The existing rotary isn't under the highway, it's 100ish' to the east. I have to loop all the way around it regularly, coming back from Franklin Park Zoo, and being able to just turn left onto I-93 would be awesome.

One of the options presented in the, er, presentation is a diverging diamond under I-93. I'm a bigger fan of SPUIs for no particular reason; one of the problems with them is that the large paved area can make snow removal problematic, but presumably that's less of an issue under an overpass.

I find it astonishing that quad gates aren't required on Class 6 track. It's easy to misjudge how much time one has to go around the gates (not that one should ever, ever do that), because looking up the tracks you really can't tell how fast the train is going.

That makes sense. You want the crossing to be at the departure end of the platform, where the train is already stopped.

Not if they have to stop there for some reason.