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https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/11/29/boston-planning-new-bikeways-widened-sidewalks-for-fort-point/ This is a super welcome change that can't come soon enough. I've always felt the seaport was perfect for a dedicated, connected network of bikeways (roads are relatively congested, road ROW's...

congestion is never that bad in the middle of the bridge, even during peak travel hours. The main part of the design is ensuring that the bus has a queue jump at the red lights on both ends.

Red line approaching 20 min in slow zones.. looks like most of it is concentrated on the southern part of the line and in the downtown core (the floating slabs start past Harvard and those seem to be running at track speed). Basically the entire downtown core (SS to MGH) is at 10mph right now...

Does this mean Dec 12th the line will be fully operational? Or will it still have 3 miles of slow zones & meaningless stop signs, and still be faster just to take the bus to lechmere?

Man I feel bad for everyone commuting from Alewife or Quincy. I used to choose between riding 3 stops on Red & biking, and I will most definitely be biking through the entire winter. The heaviest ridership line in the entire MBTA system and we're still running 8 minute headways at rush hour with...

Love how quickly cambridge is moving on these. Have to think that Broadway is next. If the NIMBY's businesses don't do their part then we might actually have something resembling a connected quality cycling network.

Yea we can't find anywhere to put a few rails and ties, so let's collectively waste 1,000 hours of commuters time every day. At least it's most likely just a cover up for some other deferred maintenance or budget shortage.

This lane fortunately looks pretty wide that it looks like it could potentially hold 2-way traffic. If the ROW width is really so constrained in the EB direction that they can't fit a real bike lane, it seems pretty cheap to put down a yellow dotted centerline in this bike lane and add some bike...

These look pretty good. I'm really not concerned with the lane being narrower on the bridge with a buffer - as long as there is enough room to pass other bikers. However I do think leaving the NB bike lane on the boston side unprotected was a missed opportunity. If they are going to restripe...

From the slow zone tracker, we did see trip improvements of nearly 5min for the Red line (looks like new track replacements on the north-side of the line) after some weekend closures. It does seem like at the current pace of work, by sometime next month both red & orange will be running on...

What if we told car drivers this: if we mandate blue bikers use helmets, all of a sudden the inconvenience of having to own/carry/wear a helmet & wear high-vis clothing pushes all of those people off bikes and into ubers. Then, because traffic congestion is non-linearly related to number of cars...

Especially considering the circumstances. Imagine the outrage if I-93 was in a state of disrepair such that you could only traverse sections of it at 10mph. And then the state asked to shut down the entire thing for a month. And then after it re-opened, you could only do 5mph on it. This would...

I'd love to be educated on this - how do other rapid transit systems deal with this? Just anecdotally riding the Tube in London, the Metro in DC, or even the NYC subway we don't hear much about slow zones - even directly after weekend track work, the line immediately resumes running at track...

TransitMatter's Slow Zone tracker indicates that the Red Line just hit an all-time high in slow-zones at 13 full minutes lost on each trip. Seems like Red might be next for at least partial shutdowns to do track work

Not to mention the tiny sidewalks when the street carries more people on foot than in a car.. With the recent protests from business I'm hopeful that the city recognizes that some improvement is necessary. They could start with just doing temp cones/barrels on one side of the street (similar to...

I think this is the key. I agree with vanshnookraggen that we absolutely can't let this get in the way of redesigning streets and progress (the status quo is always going to be keeping car throughput). But when transit and bikeable neighborhoods are scarce, streets that have transit/separated...

I really wish they would communicate/appreciate how absolutely important travel times/removing slow zones are. It is so much more than just "getting riders where they need to go faster". Running trains at track speed will: - Reduce car traffic on streets by improving travel times of...

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a90bff933db94496b6c4214caf17c706 Mayor Wu announced this forward-looking plan for citywide biking infrastructure which includes 9 miles of new protected lanes by end of 2023. Reddit is already blowing up about these - but some glaring omissions are charles...

This is more for the RL/OL transformation thread - but I believe F-line discussed how the new cars have to run on fixed-block ATO for the time in order to interlace with the existing older trains, but have the technology in order to run full-automated CBTC in the future. We might still always...

The lack of system redundancy is painfully obvious with weekend traffic at the airport with Sumner closed. The last two weekends have been an absolute zoo, with I-90 WB traffic backing up out of the highway and into the airport road loop. SL1 is an absolute joke with >60min wait + travel times...