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They are also asking for 4tph on the Worcester Line and 12!!! tph on fairmount and providence/NEC line. Is 12tph even possible with 100mph EMU's, interlaced with the acela's and northeast regionals?

My main issue is that the SL1 is actually even worse than direct bus service. Like Bananarama mentioned, for anyone connecting from downtown or Red Line to the airport, the SL1: - runs on a bus-like headway (10-min at peak, but with bunching and sometimes 20-min gaps between buses) - has a...

This^^. Somehow for every mode of transport other than driving, safety is the top priority and there is a near-no-tolerance policy (how long were the new OL trains yanked off for?) while for driving, it's just an unavoidable cost of keeping the economy moving. Anywho - can they install some...

If they really put in a radar speed sign you bet all of college kids will be racing their bikes/scooters for a high score on that thing..

I think there is some issue with their new calculation method. If you look at the line segments, only seems like a few new slow segments have been added (mostly to the south side). The speed restrictions near Park St actually seem to have been lifted this week.

What plan? Just replace the broken parts FFS. If there was a 3-lane-wide pothole across I-90 that you could only go 5mph over, drivers would be rioting in the streets if you came up with a "long term plan" about how to fix that.

Because then where would uber and doordash drivers idle while they are making pickups/dropoffs? :rolleyes: I think building bike lanes next to the curb usually requires a buffer for the "door-zone" and more ROW width - which it appears there is plenty of room on this street. I think there are...

Did a short ride through a lot of the new downtown bike lanes (Boylston St, Essex St, Washington St, State St/Court St, Cambridge St, Arlington St) - much of it on flex-post separated dedicated lane and bus/bike shared lane. Definitely encouraging to see the start of a connected network come...

I forget where this has been discussed, but how much of a non-starter is it to quad-track the central subway (from kenmore to govt center?) The outside pair of tracks already exist from Boylston to Park St & at kenmore, and it would provide some capacity relief to the central core where all...

Red line diversion occurring on the north side with some mention of the slow zones. However, it is a bit alarming that the north (socioeconomically wealthy) side is getting addressed first and is mostly running near track speed while the state of tracks in the south side is clearly much more dire.

I'd think the mainline ROW to Waltham has some single-track limitations and can't support the same frequencies as GLX. Not to mention incompatibilities between electrification voltage, etc. Better off just electrifying the main-line and put real 15-min regional rail on the track.

I think when the original model was designed there was an assumption that Red/Orange wouldn't be in such a dire state such that these slow zones would last months or years.. This level of transparency is pretty transformative both from the twitter post and the TransitMatters dashboard. Back in...

Not to mention, the trains are operated by a trained professional, while private vehicles are driven by joe schmoe while looking at their phone. I always wondered why the entire green line was limited to 10mph near platforms and crossings. At stations with long platforms (i.e. park st, new GLX...

Here's what grinds my gears though. Roads (for all modes including pedestrians) should be designed to best minimize points of conflict, not only between cars and bikes, but bikes and peds as well. They're completely ripping up this ROW and there is plenty of space for all 3 modes to have their...

It's not as publicized as the orange line shutdown, but Red Line service is catastrophically poor right now, and much worse when compared to level of service (i.e. headways and travel times) anytime in the last 10 years. They are still on weekend-level headways (15 min branches, 7.5min trunk)...

That is true, although you are also forgetting about induced demand - people who are not making the trip entirely will do it if convenient enough, and people who are making the existing connecting trip may fly more often.

Where do you get this data by city pair? I'd be really curious what the most traveled BOS-xxx pairs currently exist with no direct flight.

I wonder if it's feasible to turn this entire development into a private-vehicle-free one (kind of like the pedestrianized downtown-crossing plaza), and close the roads to only buses, delivery trucks, and bikes. Or maybe only allow cars on one of the east-west streets. Otherwise this area is...

I agree in theory, though in a line (like GLX) that resembles more heavy-rail like operation with longer stop-spacing and higher speeds, not stopping at every stop basically creates train bunching on the margin by definition (a train speeding skipping a stop will start catching up to the one in...

I get most frustrated when I see news about $1bn towards South Coast Rail or rail to Springfield, etc. Yes, it would be great to have rail service out there but the amount of riders it would serve would barely be 1% of daily riders served by BLX (heck, or even electrified regional rail out to...