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The fact that all of their "keep the overpass" designs didn't even contemplate removing a lane (to 1-lane overpass in each direction) even though that would be sufficient for current throughput, tells you all you need to know. At least this will prevent cut-through traffic in the cambridgeport...

Sigh. I give up on Massdot ever doing anything except building more highway-sized lanes to induce more traffic. The whole point is to reduce vehicle miles traveled so a roundabout can flow effectively again. I don't see any way we get a reduction in car capacity given the current congestion...

A bit old news - but Grove St in Belmont is getting a restriping, which will connect to Cambridge's existing bike projects on Mt Auburn St and Huron Ave. Unfortunately, they are only going with paint-buffered lanes (still with parking on the curbside) despite there being plenty of ROW width for...

Big win for MSN on this one. Lots of university students + football games gives plenty of demand for the route I would imagine. MSN having direct flights to DC, Philly, Charlotte, Denver but not Boston never really made sense.

The metric they reported was # of bikes as a % of total vehicles (bikes + cars) on the roadway. The issue with this metric is that the denominator in this fraction also changes. So in the case of car volume staying the same (say 100 cars/hour) but bike volume doubling from 5 >> 10 bikes/hour...

In a region that's beleagured by recent (and ongoing & neverending) inflation in cost of housing, food, and essentials, it's going to be politically impossible to get an additional "congestion toll" cost in place, especially when lower income folks are already disproportionately likely to live...

I'm pretty sure this isn't how the red line operates. Having observed a few turnarounds at Alewife, seems like the same operator walks to the other end to operate the same train southbound. How come other lines don't have this problem? Won't the red line have the same issue once we have the...

A crowded path is indicative of a need to build more/wider car-free infrastructure, not less. Though to your point, I'm a bit disappointed that despite the designers saying "there's plenty of room" in the ROW, there's no separated dirt walking/running path and dedicated cycle track. And instead...

For Cambridge residents, early voting for the City Council begins this weekend. If you live in Cambridge and care about sustainable transportation and reducing congestion, please get out and vote for bike safety champions (Burhan Azeem, Marc Mcgovern, Sumbul Siddiqui, Ayah Al-Zubi, Dana Ray...

lol, anyone who understands anything about the current NEC knows these proposals are impossible under the current track config. Hourly intercity express + hourly intercity local + 2x bi-hourly branch service is like 4tph of Amtrak Acela + interlaced with local diesel CR trains on a system that...

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2025/09/29/cape-air-ma-new-bedford-airport-to-logan-boston-inaugural-flight-2025/86421694007/ this is a truly insane flight. Because we're incapable of building a reasonable electric regional rail network, we now need a flight that costs more, has...

I think the ATO and trip stop systems on red/orange/blue make it impossible for the operator to really exceed speed limits or run reds.

I'm most appalled that these went back in the second the mayoral race was over. I hope we can just blame that on Kraft's agenda, and now that he's out of the way, Wu can push forward unopposed for infrastructure across the city. And for separators, I too don't love flexposts or zebra bumpers...

Route 2 is crazy overbuilt inside 128, as an artifact of when the inner belt highway was proposed. It really should be reconfigured to never be wider than 2 lanes, which should help cut down on all the cars getting stuffed down fresh pond parkway (and onto memorial/storrow). Reduce capacity, and...

Once cambridge has all of its CSO connected network complete, we need to encourage the city to remove (free) resident parking from one side of neighborhood streets (and just having it on one side instead of both). That space could be freed up for a contraflow bike lane, protected bike lane...

For these trip examples here, I actually think adding entrances/exits to the pike would be adequate to remove bowker. Right now storrow is functioning as a mini-I90 for all trips going east from fenway and all cars arriving to fenway from the east. Getting those cars back onto the pike would...

sure, some suburbanites who commute to Fenway-area for work 3 days a week may temporarily have a longer drive. But historical data shows traffic actually improving (or at least staying the same) when large-scale highway removals happen in the long run. But the much-improved parkland will drive...

The more roads we build, the more people drive. The less roads we build, the less people drive (and people don't stop traveling alltogether, they just shift to a different mode). That's really all there is to it. If we built the inner belt right through cambridge, fenway, and forest hills, yes...

We definitely badly need this riverwalk bridge, but it also seems to be tailored for tourists, runners, and recreational cyclists rather than actual people trying to get from home to work efficiently. Of course if Charles River Dam rd is a death trap (like it currently is) cyclists who are less...

What's the deal with the Alewife crossovers? I've recently rode the red line from there several times, and when departing from the left-side track (where the train needs to use the crossover to get back onto the right side) there's clearly a ~800 foot 10mph limitation. Based on this complete...