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The slide deck from the subcommittee meeting shows only two other minor changes in this package—the elimination of "change tickets" issued for overpayment at fareboxes (which is the last remaining use of the old magstripe CharlieTickets) and extending the $10 Commuter Rail weekend pass to also...

That's true, but Boston is somewhat of an outlier even among cities with rail rapid transit in terms of having very little bus service downtown and essentially no bus service operating through downtown. The BERy was very aggressive in truncating surface routes to rapid transit transfer hubs...

They used the crossover between North Station and Haymarket for the last couple of garage-related closures as well. I’m not sure if they were doing work on a different portion of the garage, further away from the tunnel, or if the T revisited its safety analysis. Either way, it’s a very welcome...

A (hopefully final) Lechmere Viaduct update: the full length of the viaduct is now posted at 25 mph in both directions!

I commute over the viaduct daily, and here are my observations from yesterday evening and today: Going northbound (RR eastbound), there’s a posted speed of 20 mph the whole way across the viaduct. I’m not sure why that’s short of the promised 25 mph, but it’s still a massive improvement over...