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If the T went to the town tomorrow and said we’ll do an OLX to Wyoming ( or Reading), Melrose would be 100% on board, no? I think its an Arlington situation where the opinions/ incentives RE rapid transit have shifted 180 degrees since the 70’s / 80’s; the towns want it (or would at least be...

Wow. That makes the pike stretch thru Newton look borderline progressive…

If the FTA standards are unnecessarily more stringent than FRA (l assumed it was the other way around), then @KingVibe may be onto something… Then again, Im not aware of any other RT systems (legacy or otherwise) that has ever normalized sub 10 MPH operation.

The OL is about as bad as is was just after the shutdown. GPS confirmed 5 MPH the whole way Assembly- Community SB. Honest question; for the OL specifically, was the quality of the trackwork poor, or are the speed restrictions due to the paperwork issue? I don’t know how else 40 MPH track could...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/19/metro/federal-transit-oversight-agency-warns-mbta-about-worker-safety-orders-immediate-changes/ The FTA imposed a series of deadlines by which the T must comply with new requirements or else face a freeze on track work. Around 25 percent of the MBTA’s...

IMO two things can be true at once: (Urban) Golf courses are a horrible land use. & A landowner should have every right to underutilize their property. However, I think it is reasonable that private golf courses should pay their appropriate property tax, which doesn't appear to be the case as...

Couldn’t sheet pilings be used to dewater the area to be filled in and the muck removed to take care of the contamination issue? Probably how they will install the bents of the ped bridge anyway. My assumption was that we are in a landfill no longer political environment, in this case...

Honest question, is that OTP the result of actual improved operations, or less freqrency, schedule padding, loosening the definition of ‘on time,’ ect, ect. Obviously hoping for the former. Maybe Massachoicetts could weigh in?

“Trains would come every 5 minutes” …Literally one bullet later… “9 second headways” 😂 The wildest bullet isn’t even the airport travelator headways, but the expectation that gobs of people will happily pay $12 to ride Jacksonville Skyway Nord at most .9 miles!!! Maybe thats where the 9 came...

How is 60 mins of slow zone even possible?!? Wouldn’t that mean trains would take like an hour and a half Alewife to Braintree? That can’t possibly be righ… OH MY

l was actually thinking moving walkways but with bikes allowed when l typed that. 30 MPH nonstop service with 0 headways doesn’t sound that bad 😂. This may deserve its own Crazy Transit Pitch…

Compromise, replace the tracks with moving walkways. Im only half joking. When the T makes SEPTA look competent, drastic measures are needed. I would call the MBTA a joke, but jokes are at least funny. EDIT: Forgot the T’s record with escalators, nevermind.

Red line riders: “Awesome, this means we get to go faster!”

I think its “worth it” too, it would just be an another barrier added to the ones that have prevented air rights development for the last 60 years. ‘Enemy of good is perfect’ and all that. Another issue would be that unless the street was the width of the pike+ 4 RR tracks (not great), the...

Like the overall idea, but there will have to be a vent building if everything East of Mass Ave is decked over. Moving the surface streets over the centerline of the artery would definitely complicate that even if the vent building was built on terra firma due to the limited clearance to squeeze...

Does anyone know the linked vs unlinked trip split? I think l recall seeing an 80% figure somewhere, but l may just be making that up. If that figures true, wouldn’t a simpler solution just be to make the busses free? Free transit in general is a a bad idea since the money is better spent on...

States are unable to unilaterally erect tolls on interstates… half of the reason why is to prevent tolls at the border like this.

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/lack-dispatchers-no-longer-only-reason-t-cant-run “While that puts the “nerve center” department close to the baseline staffing level she described, Benesh also indicated hitting that minimum will not be enough to prompt a reversal of service cuts that have...

All true! In a vacuum, adding lanes to a limited access facility does increase capacity. 100% fact. However, the consensus in the Traffic Engineering field is that design year congestion will not improve in a healthy metro area due to induced demand unless the section widened was a bottleneck...

As much as l am loathe to defend NH state Pols, l really don’t think theres an ulterior motive. I think NH is just still stuck in the mindset that self evidently, more lanes reduce congestion. Most of the US still thinks the same way. MassDOT is actually one of, if not the most progressive state...