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I don't see why you couldn't keep a 6-minute peak thru headway on the D trunk, fork it after Newton Highlands to 12 minutes for Riverside and 12 minutes for Needham Jct., keep that 12 minutes to each going all-day instead of there being an off-peak drop off, then supplement at rush with 6-minute...

Of the 8 stops past Forest Hills, 42% of the 2024 ridership lies in Needham. There is no effing way legally or politically you're going to be able to get away with just outright ending service to 42% of the branch's ridership. Rozzie +1 that keeps the CR mode is one thing. If there's to be...

Why isn't the GL idea happening? Substantiate your BS with something factual for once. :rolleyes:

Dock went a full decade between requested maritime openings from 2004-2014. They would do test openings on select Sunday mornings just to make sure the lifts still worked, but the PATH span kept getting stuck during those tests so 6 years ago a temporary close order was put on that side until...

It's also important to note that Boston's landfilled land correlates highly with areas of maximum flood risk, with the original land mass correlating with areas of lowest risk. I much doubt we're going to be in a mood to take on more of that risk until we've come up with a reliable solution for...

This is basically replacing the SEPTA service that was cut in 1981 when they ended all their diesel lines, so it's definitely a Philadelphia commuter market. The distance to Philly is comparable to the Worcester and Fitchburg lines. I'm just not sure why this is being floated under the Amtrak...

They haven't liked the performance of their Corridor fleet of Siemens Chargers in frigid or snowy weather, though I can't fathom it's been bad enough to make spending 5x as much for a 'Prius' diesel for their Long Distance routes anything but a no-good awful overall value. There's a reason why...

They cheaped out on Northampton and Greenfield (150 ft.) in the pre-Valley Flyer days not expecting much ridership, but now that ridership has exceeded expectations and they're projecting more service increases the dwells are starting to become a problem. That'll get worse when they go to...

Technical explainer: http://tillier.net/stuff/caltrain/diesel_vs_elecloco_vs_emu.pdf It takes 2:18 over 2.5 miles of non- curve-restricted track for a stock (B)EMU (i.e. the same general make and class the T is buying for Fairmount) to reach 79 MPH vs. 2:36 for a diesel. They also accelerate...

You can forget about Northborough/Clinton Regional Rail ever being a thing if that's the final configuration. If we're eventually going to have overlapping all-local :30 Framingham short-turns layered with :30 semi-expressed Worcester turns, the Fitchburg Secondary makes for an extremely...

This. The speed differential between a 79 MPH-capped Regional Rail EMU set and a 50 MPH-capped Green Line set gets excruciating after a certain distance and a certain stop spacing, nevermind the relative creature comforts of the livery and relative total quantities of seats you have to be...

The Millis Industrial Track isn't abandoned yet. It's pretty much doomed as the last transload business died out about 5 years ago, and new operator Mass Coastal has next-to-no interest in running anything outside its South Coast + Cape base of operations, but they haven't formally petitioned...

The existing Franklin-Blackstone trail is very well-buffered. The ROW property lines range from 70 to 125 ft. wide, and there's hardly any abutters. It would be particularly easy to do up as rail-with-trail. And I doubt you'd need much double-track past Franklin Jct. for Woonsocket service...

There's a Superfund site halfway down the Franklin Industrial Track, and it's known that the soil contamination there has seeped onto the trackbed. They might be removing the out-of-service rails now because of the town now owning the ROW, but it's probably going to be a long time before it's...

No way! I want to be paid a cool $50K to tell them "Maybe you should try running the Fitchburg Line more times a day."

Somebody needs to do the maths on the related counts from the Blue Book portal for regular service during the same time period. We were already preemptively warned that they were projecting a ridership/fare deficit vs. regular service because of all the cancellations. I want to see it...

https://www.universalhub.com/comment/1031519#comment-1031519 Scam alert? Ari Osevit in the UHub comments with some personal insight into Wada Hoppah's founder's past business...uhh...foibles. He sounds like a real upstanding legitimate businessman.:poop:

The very last sentence in the article. . . . . .seems like it should have been one of the very first sentences in the article. :unsure:

Well put. Guidelines for good-practice turn into arbitrary rules, arbitrary rules turn into more arbitrary rules, and not following ALL the arbitrary rules means you are bad people who shouldn't be allowed to self-determine. Rinse, repeat...and no explanations given. Debates about service...

Glob does dueling Blue Hill Ave. bus editorials. . . Aloisi "pro": https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/13/opinion/blue-hill-avenue-bus-orange-line/ Culpepper and Worrell "con": https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/13/opinion/blue-hill-ave-bus-rail/ Given the Glob's recent rep for NIMBY...