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Those are the Orange and Red mock-up cars displayed for public viewing on City Hall Plaza in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The Orange one was two-thirds length, and the Red one much stubbier.

It's a working name, but a stupid one. They're explicitly leaning into the "West = North Station = South Station" comparison, when really the thing is going to be relatively transit-starved for transfers and is almost wholly reliant on the (thus far blank-slate) surrounding development a la...

Milford Station is bookended by 60 MPH curves and the New Haven terminal district is 30 MPH, but the rest of it is unrestricted 75 MPH and fairly straight. In the absolute you could probably bump it to 125 MPH, but traffic levels even on the center express tracks wouldn't permit much more than...

The T is envisioning a zone express setup for Worcester where one :30 frequency layer does all local stops inside of Framingham and one :30 frequency layer skips to Framingham and then does all local stops to Worcester. Sort of how the New Haven Line separates GCT-Stamford locals from...

That immediate adjacent curve in/out of South Norwalk station is 45 MPH-restricted in a 70 MPH zone, so eastbound trains will be going no faster and the signal system will be automatically slowing westbound trains from to 45 while they're in-process of going over the bridge. Since the curve is...

Dude...the T's own Rail Vision projects 10 TPH on the inner Worcester Line: 4 TPH in :30 Framingham all-locals, 4 TPH in :30 Worcester semi-expresses, and up to 2 TPH for hourly Amtrak. And you've been corrected on this very claim before, so don't claim ignorance while you try to vibes-troll...

A self-storage building needs 59 parking spaces? For who? :unsure: Also...from the LOI: So the current bait-and-switch is basically setting up the next bait-and-switch when its design is VE'd into the CubeSmart location that the self-storage market will actually bear. Gotcha.

Uhh...and the traffic actively en route to the closed expressways does what? Oh, right...it starts a traffic jam of its own from people still on the within-capacity highways suddenly scrambling to detours. Which then closes another expressway and sends more cars scrambling to yet more detours...

Milford-New Haven is slightly under-capacity compared to the rest of the New Haven Line, and has the widest stop spacing and fastest average speeds on all tracks because of the wide stop spacing, so that's the last place there needs to be any more passing tracks. They're taking their sweet time...

A 100 MPH zone ends at the north end of the Pelham Bridge slow zone, so southbound trains could definitely go at a higher rate of speed. But there's a 60 MPH curve restriction about a half-mile to the south where the ROW starts S-curving back and forth for a few miles, so northbound trains...

Yes, they do. It's been studied ad nauseam. The costs and schedules are very much known-known. Which is contradicted by every bit of polling for the last 20 years that shows broad support. Jesus, your usual hottake trolling shtick is coming up extra-lame this week. :rolleyes:

Polling in New Hampshire for commuter rail has consistently run strongly in favor. It's their broken zoo of a short attention-span Legislature and super-gerrymandered Executive Council that can't get through one single election cycle without contradicting themselves on transpo policy, and the...

I don't have good news for you about the travel times. The NYNH&H State of Maine took 1:23 Worcester-Lowell in 1941 with only an Ayer intermediate stop. That's obviously going to be slower with more intermediates. The ROW geometry is really bad for working up any head of steam, and DMU's...

It's under active study as part of Blue Line Transformation. The entire overhead system is at replacement age, so they have a non-optional decision to make soon on whether to program a bunch of $$$ to renew it or replace it. Chances are they're going to want to replace it, as third-rail is...

Iron Horse Park is 5 miles and some awkward reverse movements away from Lowell Station. It's better than deadheading to BET at every shift change, but it's far from ideal for the current line which is why they haven't tried it before now. Iron Horse is supposed to be the new Maintenance of Way...

You probably wouldn't need to do a viaduct to connect the B&A with the Fitchburg. Shifting the whole 128 alignment 1 lane to the west and compressing the extremely wide left shoulders a little bit should create more than enough room for 2 RR tracks at-grade between Weston and Waltham along the...

FWIW...the PMT also lowballed their OLX projections. So reading the Needham CR corridor and associated buses was definitely not the document's strong suit. Practically all of OLX was diversions from CR, bus, and Forest Hills with only an anemic +600 new transit riders for 10,700 existing-rider...

The PMT basically added up the published Blue Book boardings for Junction+Center+Heights on stet craptacular CR mode, plus the boardings for the southern half of the essentially nonfunctional stet 59 and rounded them off with diversions from deleted Hersey to net those totals. It is...

2010-2011, City of Newton-commissioned. Although it's been touched upon in various semi-related City development studies regularly for about 18-19 years now, so the recent-era body of work spans a little larger than just that study. Needham hasn't been quite as active, with their most recent...

You lose out on a ton of ridership between Newton Highlands and Needham Heights. A ton. The area is booming bigtime, and it follows the natural travel orientation in Needham (i.e. where the traffic is) rather than the Cutler Park dead zone so you'd also pick up a lot more...