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https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/limited-bus-camera-pilot-found-26000-violations/ MBTA bus camera data-collection pilot that ran for only 30 days this winter using only 4 buses captured a mind-boggling 26,000 bus stop and bus lane violations. Yeah, these fines are going to do a world of...

From Reddit. . . Next heritage scheme released, an earlier-style NYNH&H livery, on GP40MC #1128:

Alstom has really not coated itself in glory with the quality-control problems on the Aveila Liberty. This was *supposed* to be a nearly off-shelf model, being adapted from the TGV-deployed Aveila Horizon developed simultaneously and heavily derived from their reliable, mass-deployed Pendolino...

They're owned by private equity, where loading the company up with debt they can't pay down and forcing debt restructures through 'intentional' bankruptcies is all part of the cynical game. When Brightline was first founded they were going to rationalize the operating losses of the passenger...

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/westpb/2026/09/25/brightline-files-for-bankruptcy-says-trains-will-keep-running/91919251007/ Brightline formally files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

There's $68-84 million estimated in support infrastructure needed for the billion-dollar BEMU's, so these grants are only a down-payment on that. And the cost jumped a lot in the May project update from what they were projecting for all this support infrastructure last year. They're also no...

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/mbta-automated-camera-bus-lane-stop-fines/ Bus stop/lane camera enforcement starts a week from today with written warnings to car owners whose license plates get selfied by the cameras. Formal fines start getting issued Jan. 1.

Plugging the T's operations deficit, and little else. As long as they're band-aiding this, band-aiding that instead of looking for perma-fixes (ahem...Big Dig debt...ahem) the state's not going to be in a position to go on offense when it comes to transit improvements. We're still very much in...

SEPTA's got a lot of big infrastructure hurdles to clear before that can be possible. For one, the power system on the whole of the ex-Reading side of the system is infamously tapped out, which is the biggest limiter for increasing service on their whole system. They don't even run that good a...

Maine's not a point of origin for containers. That's in large part why Yard 8 was stillborn; the state miscalculated badly that they could get into that action. Even Massachusetts doesn't bother with ship-to-rail intermodal, with Port of Boston's container port being laser-focused on truck...

Not quite. China has budgets. They just frequently blow them to smithereens and have to ask their government for bailouts, which the government will do for face-saving and external-opacity reasons. That's different from a busywork-for-busywork's sake initiative like the WPA. China has a...

Pan Am definitely didn't give a shit about Cassidy Point or Yard 8 transloads, despite whatever lip service they may have provided when Yard 8 was being built by the state. Yard 8's business prospects were oversold by the state to an absurd degree, so the expectations didn't exactly match the...

They know how to get things done, but they don't know how to get them done within-cost. Blank-check authoritarian government oversight doesn't lend itself well to internal discipline, so project management in the People's Republic tends to be very sloppy on budgeting relative to the (non-U.S.)...

BHA is a case where you're always going to need a busway, because of the sheer number of varied routes that use it. The 28 (current #1 in systemwide ridership) is the one that would be LRT'ed. But the 22 was #10 in the last Blue Book, the 31 was #15, and the 29 #60...and they collectively...

It's speculated that the I-195 bridge fiasco was the main reason Gov. McKee got turfed for reelection in the recent primary, but if that's expanded out to broader catch-all "transportation policy" polling, I'm sure the RIPTA cuts helped drag him down a little bit further.

The T didn't say no. They were asked a little over a decade ago by a private business group (soon after the state bought the Framingham Secondary from CSX and started doing state-of-repair upgrades on it) about doing a Worcester game train, and the T agreed to do a non-revenue timing run to...

Well, the EMU electrification savings are easy to calculate, and form the largest by-far share of potential savings. Take current travel times, lop off a safe 20-22% (side with a more-aggressive 22% on locals and zone expresses that make more stops, less-aggressive 20% on super-expresses)...

The TransitMatters trip time numbers, like in all of their Modernization reports, are complete garbage. It assumes intercity-class, no-standee EMU's that are not available for sale in North America and are not bought by most worldwide commuter agencies (because of the standee issue), and lots...

That depends heavily on the third rail shoe design of the T's vehicles. Usually systems that have covers have a specific shoe design providing adequate clearance, whereas a lot of systems without covers don't have enough clearance for them with their shoes. Third-rail incidents are a minority...

There is no "age limit" at the T; they do not have mandatory retirement. 65 is the elective age for the normal retirement package (and there's an early retirement option for workers 55+ with certain number of vested years), but nobody forces workers out at a certain age and electing retirement...