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Sure, but, based on crash statistics - it's like 96% vs 98%. Waymo still doesn't seem to recognize children very well. And Waymo is seemingly the best.

This is the vast majority of drivers, as well.

Looking at the neighborhood comparison table in the report, it seems like there may be a case to have some moderate level of ridership even with today's nieghborhood. Population stats within a half mile of CR Alewife is roughly like JFK/Umass (1,095 riders) and employment stats within a...

I haven't heard about this aspect from others. Is this like when people wait too long to start after getting the green light or does it last a bit longer? Or is it like when my friend told me they got unexpected trapped in one - and they had to "SOS" to get a remote operator to open the door...

Unfortunately, our civic leaders aren't as considerate as Mayor Mamdani. I honestly think they don't care enough (thanks, Melania) to make this as much an emergency as he has.

I worry - deeply - that our government protects only the richest and most favored - instead of the most vulnerable. This is added to the pile of evidence.

Yikes.

I haven't seen a feasibility study for this area before. When was it studied?

welcome the worst kind of capitalist to the presidency and here we are.

Looking at the slides and report now. It seems like it's a Route 2 (major) and Essex county (minor) travel market. The use case though is dependent on the next development cycle -- the Cambridge zoning plan has development projections showing: ~24,400 jobs ~16,900 residents

https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/Transportation/transitcommittee/2026/02feb/2025_02_05_tacslides_a_ncbeb.pdf https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2025-09-30-alewife-commuter-rail-demand-study.pdf

Given that they're already starting from a place of outsourcing the monitor and intervening process - I do wonder how much, as Waymo scales, especially to places like Boston, this may mean financially sustainablity is dependent on a Matrix-like farm of cubicle workers monitoring and intervening.

A lot of people like the novelty - but - a lot of people in SF hate them because they crash out in the most inopportune times and locations. This kind of video pops up in my group chat with some friends who live in the Bay Area about once or twice a month and people mock the cars. There was a...

The presentation and report is posted. The key figure is 800 to 1200 riders per weekday - somewhere near the top 10 stations in 2024. If they get to 30 minute service on the Fitchburg line nearly 2200 riders which would be near the top 5 of stations in 2024. Lots of hemming and hawing in the...

That's not that overwhelmingly difficult - much of Montreal's haulage in the innercity to sewer access locations where they dump locally collected snow into the sewer system for treatment. It's akin to those "built-in" vaccum systems with access locations throughout an area.

Local government is not some how magically more just or more democratic. See all the sundown towns of yesteryear (and also look at how unintegrated they often remain to this day).

The Trump administration has been overwhelming arbitrary in its use of those powers. So arbitrary that their flalling attempts are recognized by the courts as not legal. Meanwhile, the cities and towns that are out of compliance have had the time since Governor Baker's administration to...

Didn't see that they had specified the busway like that. I breezed through reviewing that document again - but - did they specify why? I don't see much of any discussion on benefits or drawbacks of the northern side being that, at least in the T's words.

Seems like an enhanced pergola around the faregates would be sufficient if the issue is wind-driven snow in a big atrium like space

Obviously, the marketing departments see that billionaires are pumping billions into "AI" - so they lemming what their billionaire (and soon trillionaire) bosses are going for.