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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Yeah... I think that over time people are going to totally ignore validation. It's to shrink to a very honest subpopulation but rest essentially treat "inbound is free". Thinking about it, I hope nobody notices it as I can just imagine certain actors will try to use the data to say transit has...
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    Siemens is German
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    That's actually the question. Can the project be saved? Maybe that question cannot be answered by any of us, but going by our general knowledge and the way everything been presented by the latest reports, it looks like a more realistic outcome than any of us like to consider. It's been floating...
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    So here's a question - can failures of process without design flaws reach that point for the "lemon" label? Because it does look like it's very possible that design-wise, the CRRC trains are fine. But the newest reports is starting to sound like the core issue could be CRRC has checked out. Not...
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    Is the data via TransitHistory or is there other sources? The last wave of media coverage in regards to CRRC deliveries seem to be all roughly around end of September. Those articles reported it was suppose be done 1 year ago, all 152 carbodies has been made, and new project target is Summer...
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    Biking in Boston

    So that's Zone 1A map? Where did the map come from? Regardless, I have today Brookline (and a lesser extent Newton) really throws a wrench in what should be a circle from the center aside from natural barriers.
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    Brah, think about what? Frankly, you just made a bunch of sentences that individually are not wrong, but it just does not connect in any coherent manner to make any insightful or meaningful point. ----- Also to respond when you replied with that link. It's the same article as the one linked...
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    New Red and Orange Line Cars

    Given the basis of common knowledge pieces of information of labor shortages, supply shipment bottlenecks, and CRRC being a Chinese company means an very reasonable guess most parts are being shipped in from China - one can make some reasonable but ultimately speculative theories. Being a poster...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    How long does the Environmental doc and 30% design stays valid before you have to do it again to start? Even we only talk about projects in terms of the MBTA doing 1-2 expansions at a time. But then that means GLX2 won't start until after 2030 because somehow Red-Blue will take +8 years (reasons...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    I vaguely recall they said Route 16 was cut to make sure there's enough money to complete the other portions of GLX but if they don't need it then they would continue GLX to Route 16 (along with returning money Cambridge and Somerville offered - which I do know that happened). But I can't find a...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Somerville pledged to give GLX $50 million dollars when the project was looking at death's door pre-value engineering (which media and state never made any noise about). Which 2nd start of the project that it was able to stay within budget and thus allowing GLX to return a combined $28 million...
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    Bowker Overpass replacement?

    Yeah, this is not useful discussion. This is needless snark. This is ultimately an internet forum where we generally have no influence, but concepts and ideas still matter - technical, design, engineering, policy, and even philosophical. Screaming Texas and screaming people just go ride a bike...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    This is ultimately an engineering problem. Just looking at bike trails and community paths all over the state shows we can't just expect people to walk on the right and etc. Even if people do do that, just he discomfort some will feel of a bike riding by at decent clips will feel discouraged...
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    Bowker Overpass replacement?

    Nobody's going to be persuaded, but I want to note that I find Brattle Loop's point reasonable and the rebuttal that gridlocking intersections is a good thing is just reflexive. There are tradeoffs and people trying to drive are still people and if thousands of people's commute are doubled, that...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    I don't know if they so silo-ed but I think it's reasonable to speculate there different gears going on. Frank retired from the MBTA years ago now, so it's not like people would remember just by seeing him in the office. Someone has to deliberately remember and contact him to bring him in. But...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Checking the page you linked and scrolling back, I don't see a press release to the announcing the date of the opening of Union Square, just the announcement on the day of it. I don't know really what's normal practice of press releases though.
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    MBTA "Transformation" (Green Line, Red Line, & Orange Line Transformation Projects)

    It's probably obvious to say this, but it seems the MBTA pulled all resources to fix all the slow zones on the Orange Line, but at the cost of a skeleton crew at best to maintain the rails at the Red Line. Assuming the Orange Line has truly reach 0 slow zones, then I wonder if keeping it down...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    The original name of this thread was something like "Green Line to Medford/Somerville will open in 2011" or something like that. It's unfortunate this project lost so much time. It would have been nice if this thread reached its conclusion by its original name. It took so long we have to...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    .... Bakgwailo is saying the delays are slowly going down. The train is getting faster. I will leave a caveat that I might be miscomprehending you where your emoji emote outrage is about that the Orange Line should have recover to this point months ago post-shutdown. But I'm pretty sure...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    So I decided to go for a bike ride along GLX. From Tufts to East Somerville and back. I took roughly 43 photos. That might be too much to share by directly posting on forum (if at all). So I'm sharing it via Google Drive and posting directly a few chosen photos with written commentary on the...

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