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I'll take ugly and colorful over dreary, grey superblock boxes.

Don't forget Brighton Music Hall, and several Korean restaurants. Perhaps it's just selection bias, but very time I go to a concert there, the area is packed with pedestrians.

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Yeah, this is the crux of my confusion. Quasi-rapid service via Regional Rail is the prevailing proposed solution for those gaps you listed, and some of those gaps are at least as deserving of rapid service as Quincy and Braintree are. So, if the Braintree branch weren't already in place, would...

To be transparent, it's "this makes sense to me, but I'm sure it's a bad idea, and I'm interested to know why." Maybe I should have put this in the Transit Shitposting thread. Point taken that this is a very stupid idea pre-NSRL. But post-NSRL too? If I understand right, RR trains will connect...

Here's an idea to tear apart... Current state of the Braintree branch: RL trains every 15/21mins (on/off peak). TransitMatters' Old Colony Rail proposal: RR (regional rail) trains to run Braintree->SS every 7/15mins, based on the overlap of the Middleborough and Hyannis (Kingston) lines...

Cool Eng interview from earlier today, a little more personal and detailed than his other interviews so far: https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2024/04/04/crrc-orange-line-low-income-fares-t-blue-hill-ave

The millionaire's tax was not mindlessly whipped up by a bunch of power-drunk communist revolutionaries--believe it or not, progressives do care _a lot_ about long-term tax revenue. The tax was studied, and while that study did anticipate tax avoidance, it did not anticipate the avoidance would...

Can you cite something that says a significant number of $1MM+/yr earners have left the state? If you can, then yeah, it's a pretty damning case for the Fair Share Amendment! But if you can't, then sorry... this is just standard angry conservative speculation. This isn't the first time MA has...

Good find @Wonk . I wonder if it's at all related to their strange proposal to ferry people to/from the casino instead of having them... walk across the street.

Yeah. I like to think that a well-designed public authority does in fact represent the opinion of the general population, but smoothed out across generations, and steeped in patience/context/knowledge that the average person wouldn't be expected to have. If 51% of a city doesn't like some...

Like, as a result of laziness / incompetance / backwards incentives? Or is there actually a rational reason that a good transit agency would do that?

This part is insult to inury. $325k for the MBTA, $628k for the squatter.

Now THIS is the quality content that I come here for.

I'm sure it could be improved, but the fact that you marked Readville as a terminus at all is such an improvement.

Under both the current map and the BNRD map, Nubian is the biggest bus hub in the entire network. Unless that hub were relocated to a Fairmount stop, the SL4/5 corridor will remain critical for Roxbury/Dorcester/Mattapan transfers. With that in mind, the I-93 "express to Nubian" line that...

OK, that was a fantastic watch. You're right--that should be required watching for young folks like me before we start suggesting Silver Line changes :) Takeaways: There is room for a median busway and/or LRT through the South End *if* you remove a significant amount of parking and possibly...

OK, so down-branding SL4/5 is politically unviable, and for good reason--there OUGHT to be rapid transit to Nubian, even if there isn't today. So what about upgrading them to proper BRT? At least south of the pike, just eyeballing the satellite view, it seems like there'd be room for a proper...

God mode pitch: Renumber the whole network so that high-frequency routes are multiples of 10. Reasonable pitch: Keep the T prefix, or switch it to F for frequent, or K for key, or something! There's no way a casual transit user will remember that routes 1, 7, 39, 111, yada yada are all...

Basically every version of Green Line reconfiguration/expansion I've seen on this forum includes a branch to Nubian, some as a dedicated-median trolley, others as elevated light metro. Heck, F-Line's username is a callout to the idea. Perhaps we don't talk about it more because it's so obvious...