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again not a rail engineer, but if you raised all the 30-45mph zones up to 75-90mph, wouldn't all trains (metro-north and otherwise) clear the signal blocks faster resulting in fewer traffic backups as well? this is assuming we have 4 functional tracks along the length of new rochelle <> new...

It's wild how many 30-45mph zones there are in connecticut - I thought a lot of the slow Amtrak speeds were related to train dispatching/spacing with Metro North. With this punch list of upgrades + reduced padding, its crazy how much travel times could be improved just within the current ROW...

The first design is laughable. Literally looks like something out of texas or arizona. Glad everyone had the sensibility to strike that down.

Does anyone know wtf is going on with the Red Line floating slabs? seems like a nearly annual shutdown at this point (either multiple weekends or the current 10-day diversion going on right now). That can't be the normal maintenance cadence when it was initially designed. Will these things just...

I just don't understand who this stop is serving. The walkshed in that area basically serves no one, so it'd be an exclusive park-and-ride station. But the waltham single track basically means that we can't really improve frequencies much more, esp not compared to the worcester line a few miles...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/06/26/not-zero-yet-livablestreets-report-assesses-progress-in-three-cities-after-a-decade-of-vision-zero its quite interesting to see sommerville with better (lower) crash numbers for bikes/peds compared to cambridge. Not surprising to see Boston's numbers...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/06/18/cambridge-pedestrianizes-a-harvard-square-block-with-more-car-free-spaces-in-consideration it grinds my gears that every god damn thing that takes an inch of space away from cars must be a "pilot" that has the potential to be reversed with enough...

"Would you be willing to pay to drive downtown if there was less traffic?" Well if majority of people said yes to this then all those people would still be driving downtown which means there would be....just as much traffic as we currently have now.

Ugh, I-93 is just destined to be choked with traffic for the next 20 years. We'll try again in 2050.

This is an awesome idea for less car-centric places, but assumes drivers who are going on yellow actually enter the intersection before the light turns red. Anyone who's driven around here knows that in practice, drivers will routinely enter the intersection up to 1 full second after the red. So...

Reddit is fuming about the Dartmouth street bikeway which had a great concrete-separated wide two-way bikeway from the esplanade to Copley Square. This bikeway would legitimately connect a ton of low-stress cycling options from copley square to anywhere connected by the Charles River path. The...

Speaking of which, this matchday train schedule is absolutely preposterous. Why the hell do we need to "check in" at south station 15-45 minutes before the departure time? This isn't air travel. Also why the hell is there a 45-minute range on the arrival time for a 22-mile trip with no stops...

If I'm interpreting this the right way, this is extremely depressing. It's implying that lower income (and less white) neighborhoods are, by association, so closely linked to dangerous street design and car dependency, that you have to be middle or upper class just to be able to walk across the...

ah, the classic "we cannot build bus lanes in the places where buses would benefit the most from bus lanes" argument.

everyone: give GL signal priority so it can pass through intersections without waiting for 4 cars with 5 people to pass through! Save 5-10 min in travel time from brookline to park st! brookline: best I can do is trim some trees

I've seen so many people use River St northbound + ride on the sidewalk to reach charles circle... shhhh

On the topic of sneckdowns with the recent storm, one area that is super-apparent is Charles st in Beacon Hill. The two side lanes of the 3-thru-car-lanes are half filled with snow, so only the center lane is fully clear and passable by cars. The side lanes have been useful as a door-zone bike...

Most bluebike docks were buried this morning and inaccessible. Seems like they're slowly digging some out now. Some protected bike lanes (longfellow bridge, boylston st in mass ave, most bikeways in cambridge) are plowed and ridable.

I think those are fair points, but improved bike connectivity is one area that would be improved by the redesign, is cheap to build (and is legitimately improving at a good pace in Cambridge and Back Bay). For some suburban commuters they may have no choice but to drive, but I'm guessing enough...

hmm, the entire concept of "we can't reduce road capacity since congestion is already bad" that they are seemingly married to shows some misunderstanding of induced demand. The entire point of the reconstruction is to build less roads to reduce car travel. Sure, it will be painful in the very...