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The most relevant quote in the article: The article implies that this letter was acquired either via a leak or public records request. It seems likely the AG wanted to note that this is probably illegal, but a reasonable action under these circumstances. However, this is another piece of...

There is a Mattapan Line Transformation Program public meeting happening on the 17th that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: https://www.mbta.com/events/2025-12-17/public-meeting-mattapan-line-transformation-program-virtual. This will be the first time in two and a half years (!) that the T has...

I'd like to push back just a little on how restrictive the market challenges are. While it has undoubtedly caused a major slowdown in residential construction, the results of that have been very different in different places. Even with interest rates at their current highs, other cities are...

This site is currently a parking lot and mostly vacant building. The project is a huge upgrade over that. The only major complaint is that the building could probably be taller, given what's going up on both Guest St and Braintree.

The last time there was any information on the 400ft platforms was over 18 months ago. It may still be the plan, but it's hard to say for sure. However, we do have this from the latest update: While, it's not much, it does mean that the island platform has been scrapped. This was a major...

They mentioned this a bit during the board meeting, but the idea was to start with the Orange Line to avoid any complexity with branching on the Red Line. This is likely due to ensuring operators end up at the station they started at, but there wasn't any additional explanation.

The T has been doing this for at least a few years. I've heard Ryan Coholan discuss it before (I think on the Spilling the T podcast but can't say for sure.) The vast majority of "AI" or "machine learning" applications the past ten years has been fairly basic regressions. While there are some...

Absolutely. I'm cautiously optimistic that the upcoming Allston-Brighton Community Plan will remove parking minimums for this entire area

The main reasons are that it still generates vehicle trips and means more curb cuts. Allston Village already has a ton of traffic and anything that adds more cars will just make it worse

That's true, but the schedule has been shifted to prioritize all-day service over peak service. And it's not like peak service is that far off from 2 locals and 2 local expresses hourly. There's currently 7 trains that arrive at South Station between 7:10 & 9:11 AM and 7 that leave between 4 &...

I'm just telling you the little bit that's been shared with the public. As far as I'm aware, no proposed timetables have been released. That said, one Amtrak round trip isn't exactly a ton to schedule around. And freight movements on half the line that only sees 2 TPH shouldn't be too bad as...

It's certainly underwhelming, but the change in payment rate is probably the "best" metric to look at for the program's start. And that has been doing well, from the little info we do have (from a T press release):

Thanks for the information. I figured hard numbers would be difficult to come by, but this paints a clear enough picture. From this information and everything the T has said, it does seem like the new locos will result in a meaningful service improvement across the CR network. Better...

The situation is obviously neighborhood dependent, but I haven't seen any project in Allston in the past few years get pushback from the BPDA on insufficient parking. At the same time, planners absolutely have told projects to reduce parking, so I'd be really surprised if this doesn't sail through.

On an unrelated note, could someone provide a brief description on how modern diesel locomotives (like the ones the T plans to order) compare to the oldest locos in the CR fleet? I know we should expect better fuel efficiency, improved acceleration, lower NO2 and particulate pollution, and...

It means 2 tph at every station, both directions, all day. There would additionally be 4 tph at Framingham and the Boston stations. Here's a Streetsblog article with more info.

I don't know for sure, but I'm assuming it's related to the proposed 30-minute headways on the line. The T hasn't published much information on it, but here's some CIP info: The announcement also mentions that "crews will also perform culvert upgrade work near Westborough", so you have that too.

Assuming the light red in the render is the same brick, this will probably look fine, if not pretty nice. However, it is a shame that the render is so poor that we can't really tell

I assume on congestion pricing writ large, not border tolls? Exactly this. It blows my mind that we're not funding East-West rail and Worcester line improvements (electrification, level boarding, grade crossing removal, etc.) with a slightly higher Turnpike toll, as just one glaring example

Is there no way to get a waiver/exception here? It also should not be much of a problem to only open half of doors on the Union Station side of the train given conductors are manually opening doors at most stops already.