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Those all require federal approval. Federal approval which is IMO unlikely to be granted if a neighboring state has major objections, especially for a proposed toll which can likely be proven to disproportionately affect that state's residents. Said state would probably even have a Commerce...

Federal law. Short of an exception it's absolutely not going to get, MA would probably need to pay back the feds every federal dollar paid to build and maintain I-93 in MA from it's inception until now, with interest. And wouldn't receive any further federal $ for it.

Not saying you're wrong necessarily, but I'll note that appears to have been accounted for? Looks like they removed the MGH-Park St slow zone on 2/16 in both directions on their tracker. It just looks to have been outweighed by some much larger new delays SB Wollaston-Quincy and to a lesser...

In other dismal "achievements", the Transitmatters tracker suggests that there's now....40 minutes of slow zones on the RL, with seemingly most of the line under a slow order going Southbound.

If the premise is that liquids are just randomly seeping into the elevator car machinery under the floor because this is somehow not thought about, presumably they're already dripping into the shaft after taking a trip through the gears/whatever else - the mechanical underside of the car is...

While I'm quite supportive of the idea for general cleanliness reasons, if the interior floor of elevators is not designed so that liquids drain out in a guided fashion and away from sensitive/structural bits of the car rather than randomly seeping into elevator car machinery, that seems like an...

As example - NY has been slowly designating NY-17 as I-86 as they bring sections up to interstate standard over the past 20+ years, and it's seemingly no issue legally to have discontinuous sections of the corridor.

For an intelligently run and properly staffed transit system, entirely feasible. For the MBTA at this exact moment in time - probably impossible due to the driver shortage. They currently don't have enough drivers to be running the intended level of service and we're seeing service reductions...

No, it's been studied in somewhat more depth than that. From 2012, you can look here: http://ctps.org/data/calendar/htmls/2014/MPO_0821_Core_Efficiencies.html#_Toc340129032

Bridge costs don't tend to scale linearly AFAIK. The difference in cost between building a 4 lane bridge vs a 6 lane bridge is not going to be 33%, but a much smaller fraction. And in this case, that'd be even more true, because the proposed auxiliary travel lanes are a small portion of the...

Find some other revenue source that's less politically radioactive, actually build and operate an expanded, reliable, pleasant, clean, system that people believe offers a good service that they want to use or at least can see themselves using, and then start with more of the financial/structural...

I'd expect the real-world effect to be minimal with the short length of the line, though? We're talking 4 stops if this is only the behavior on the branch and not Lechmere, and presumably the only time you'll be skipping multiple stops going inbound is the lowest-ridership times of the day...

Metro-North and LIRR have peak/off-peak fares. I don't usually hear much griping about it.

At least speaking to my own life in a typical enough white-collar profession, most people I see work....slightly flexible hours. An issue/problem, late meeting, just being in the middle of something, making up a bit of time might have them staying 30min-1.5hrs longer than standard. Another day...

Slides 31 + 32 from the previous post have the details, but yes. 20ft usable width on the boardwalk.

I for one would love to see some photo ops in front of South Attleboro, JFK/UMass, and Lynn Station.

This doesn't feel like a particularly useful perspective to me. You could seemingly apply this logic to every piece of infrastructure - "if it was never built we'd just have had to deal with it not existing in some way" - well, yes, that's true. That doesn't really address anything about the...

I recognize they're trying to show off the park design, but I feel like I'm having trouble parsing the road configuration in this diagram with the erratic use of transparency. Is there an actual road diagram somewhere?

Amazing that closing the commuter rail station entirely for one of the largest cities in the state is acceptable for any significant length of time, much less some kind of undefined, years long period.

Or years....like the Rourke Bridge in Lowell.