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Off topic, but did Sound Bites change ownership? Last I knew it was still run by the famously irascible Yasser Mirza, of Ball Square Breakfast Wars fame.

In the interest of gratuitous pedantry, it's "Gare Centrale" or "Central Station".

At an semi-educated guess, I'd say that because of the existing height restrictions on the channel, there was no need for the unlimited vertical clearance of a bascule bridge, and a vertical lift bridge probably can be raised and lowered faster and might be cheaper to build.

MassDOT just announced the Massachusetts Priority Trails Network (map), which covers mostly familiar ground for rail trail nerds like me, but includes some genuine surprises. In particular, the highlighted "priority trails" include a) a connection between the northern and southern segments of...

I wonder if it would work better to have trains deadhead back to the North Station storage yard after dropping off, wait there as necessary, and then go back into NS on the outbound track to pick up passengers.

I ran into this a few weeks ago, when I was going to North Station to take the Orange Line outbound. The train stopped at Science Park, with another one ahead of it, and the driver told us to get on the train ahead and that it was leaving in 7 minutes. I got off and walked to North Station...

I took a spin down to the Cambridge Crossing REI yesterday. I'd poached nearly all of the path between Lowell St and Gilman Square at one point or another, but it was great to finally ride the whole thing. A few notes: I'm used to bike paths being flat, since they're usually repurposed railroad...

Oh, rail service to Lincoln NH would be so nice (assuming it didn't take 4 hours, which is likely). Assuming the ski areas and Appalachian Mountain Club ran shuttles for skiers and hikers respectively, of course. (AMC does run a hiker shuttle that stops at the Lincoln bus station, but only twice...

Might have to tunnel anyway. River St doesn't look anywhere near wide enough for a dedicated reservation, and we all know how fond the T is of street running.

Xfinity Center is a fine venue in itself, but a nightmare to get to and a worse one to get out of. When I used to go to concerts there (back when it was still Great Woods), I found that the only way to avoid sitting in the traffic jam of everyone exiting for a full hour was to get over towards...

Although, that single track down the middle of the highway does occasionally provide for awesome sights like this one.

I walk past that section nearly every morning and there is always work being done on it.

There's a regular countdown sign outside the College Ave entrance to Davis that used to give arrival times for the trains, but they repurposed it for the buses.

There's a BlueBikes stand across Broadway at the foot of the bridge.

If there were stations, they were probably from the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern, which was mostly inundated by the reservoir.

Thanks for the photos. My high school student is really looking forward to that stairway opening so they don't have to walk all the way around the school to get in. They did find the bottom-level exit door that's right by the station, but you can't go in that way.

But only for the Orange Line. Rename the Red Line part back to Washington and our evil plan will be complete.

They were running what felt like full speed between Ball Square and Gilman Square this morning. Got to experience it twice because we got to the station before I noticed my younger son had forgotten his backpack. So he didn't validate because guess where his card was.

According to the story, Ashkenazy has promised that the down escalator will be fixed within 48 hours, and the up escalator within 2 weeks. If I might make the tiniest little suggestion... once the down escalator is fixed, how about running it going UP?

It would, except that the 21st Amendment permitted the states to regulate the importation of alcohol.