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It looks like it ought to be possible to site a combined station on the other side of the diamond, off Foundry St. There's still the platform issue, but that's what automatically-deploying bridge plates are for. But this Central Corridor plan in general does seem like kind of a train to nowhere...

I'd bet money that while he knew about the layover yard, he didn't know that the locomotives were going to idle all night. Which is not at all unreasonable. (Why do they do that anyway? It just seems stupid and wasteful.)

Not that I'm any kind of expert here, but I've never had the sense that that tunnel boring is the kind of enterprise that's ripe for the kind of disruptive innovation that Tesla and SpaceX achieved. (How much credit Musk deserves for those innovations is, of course, debatable.)

The Transit Costs Project has released their proposal for overhauling the NEC; among other things it calls for having all of the commuter agencies upgrade to EMUs. I'm sure that'll be a piece of cake. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2025/05/05/the-northeast-corridor-report-is-out/

This is fantastic! So is that from the MCRT bridge over the Fitchburg line in Weston to the BFRT crossing at West Concord? Be even more awesome if it extended to South Acton to connect to the ARRT.

Curtatone wanted to do pretty much exactly that a few years ago when it turned out to need a bunch of repairs.

Different project. See https://archboston.com/community/threads/roads-and-highways-general-development-thread.6872/post-500400

A pity the plan doesn't include fixing that ludicrous high-speed crossover between MVP eastbound and the ramp from Main St towards 93.

Pretty clearly they're trying to optimize for people coming out from Boston, so turning at South Acton makes sense.

You know what would be awesome? If the T and the Seastreak ferry service coordinated their schedules so that you could reasonably do a car-free day trip to Martha's Vineyard via New Bedford. Right now the ferry's summer Saturday morning schedule has a ferry leaving right when a train arrives...

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Wow, that is literally scaffolding.

Just east of the bridge; it's a small tunnel. I remember seeing it on the plans.

The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail bridge over Rte. 2 in Concord included a wildlife crossing under 2 as part of the project.

Probably because they know perfectly well the Late for Sure Limited is going to get to Worcester hours behind schedule after trundling 1000 miles from Chicago and they don't want people assuming otherwise.

The obvious solution for historical signs like this is a plaque that says something like "This is a historical sign"

Someone caught the Wendell derailment on video. It's like watching a train wreck.

Looking at the damage to the Type 7 vs. the Type 8, I know which one I'd rather be on in a crash.

Electric buses don't "putter". :)

I really like this headhouse design, it's similar to Aquarium's. I like headhouses where it's obvious that you're going underground.