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To hit the end of Gibson St requires 2 sfh demos, and it would only be another 2 sfhs, a duplex, and an adult day care center to get another 2 blocks to Park St. I think that's the real "end of the line" when it comes to ROW re-use. A short 0.5mi mined section could be done for the final stretch...

Always wondered how a branch of the orange line to Medford Square would pencil out cost + ridership-wise... Using old ROW w/ cap cut tunneling and the existing flying junction could bring costs down substantially. Only like 5-6 houses would need demo (plus a BUNCH of backyard construction)...

Are you assuming the expense of new construction cannot go down? Because there are a LOT of regulations at the state and local level that, if changed, would allow for significantly cheaper new construction. I don't know if projections exist on exactly how much that could bring down cost, but it...

It's a chicken and egg problem. You can't build dense housing without effective public transit, but you can't justify funding effective public transit without dense housing, or at least a plan to build it. This is why I'm of the belief that you need one all-encompasssing bill that does...

I'm skeptical about the interpretation of "collections increased up to 35%". That wording really makes it sound like one outlier they are cherry-picking to fit their positive narrative, and I would be hesitant to draw any conclusions about wider fare collection "doing well". To me, the fact that...

I'm new here, but if we are talking about new taxes explicitly to fund transportation infrastructure, surely a land value tax is the obvious answer? Income and wealth taxes could make sense in other applications, but for a situation where some of the greatest beneficiaries of the investment are...