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FWIW...the PMT also lowballed their OLX projections. So reading the Needham CR corridor and associated buses was definitely not the document's strong suit. Practically all of OLX was diversions from CR, bus, and Forest Hills with only an anemic +600 new transit riders for 10,700 existing-rider...

The PMT basically added up the published Blue Book boardings for Junction+Center+Heights on stet craptacular CR mode, plus the boardings for the southern half of the essentially nonfunctional stet 59 and rounded them off with diversions from deleted Hersey to net those totals. It is...

2010-2011, City of Newton-commissioned. Although it's been touched upon in various semi-related City development studies regularly for about 18-19 years now, so the recent-era body of work spans a little larger than just that study. Needham hasn't been quite as active, with their most recent...

You lose out on a ton of ridership between Newton Highlands and Needham Heights. A ton. The area is booming bigtime, and it follows the natural travel orientation in Needham (i.e. where the traffic is) rather than the Cutler Park dead zone so you'd also pick up a lot more...

I don't see why you couldn't keep a 6-minute peak thru headway on the D trunk, fork it after Newton Highlands to 12 minutes for Riverside and 12 minutes for Needham Jct., keep that 12 minutes to each going all-day instead of there being an off-peak drop off, then supplement at rush with 6-minute...

Of the 8 stops past Forest Hills, 42% of the 2024 ridership lies in Needham. There is no effing way legally or politically you're going to be able to get away with just outright ending service to 42% of the branch's ridership. Rozzie +1 that keeps the CR mode is one thing. If there's to be...

Why isn't the GL idea happening? Substantiate your BS with something factual for once. :rolleyes:

Dock went a full decade between requested maritime openings from 2004-2014. They would do test openings on select Sunday mornings just to make sure the lifts still worked, but the PATH span kept getting stuck during those tests so 6 years ago a temporary close order was put on that side until...

It's also important to note that Boston's landfilled land correlates highly with areas of maximum flood risk, with the original land mass correlating with areas of lowest risk. I much doubt we're going to be in a mood to take on more of that risk until we've come up with a reliable solution for...

This is basically replacing the SEPTA service that was cut in 1981 when they ended all their diesel lines, so it's definitely a Philadelphia commuter market. The distance to Philly is comparable to the Worcester and Fitchburg lines. I'm just not sure why this is being floated under the Amtrak...

They haven't liked the performance of their Corridor fleet of Siemens Chargers in frigid or snowy weather, though I can't fathom it's been bad enough to make spending 5x as much for a 'Prius' diesel for their Long Distance routes anything but a no-good awful overall value. There's a reason why...

They cheaped out on Northampton and Greenfield (150 ft.) in the pre-Valley Flyer days not expecting much ridership, but now that ridership has exceeded expectations and they're projecting more service increases the dwells are starting to become a problem. That'll get worse when they go to...

Technical explainer: http://tillier.net/stuff/caltrain/diesel_vs_elecloco_vs_emu.pdf It takes 2:18 over 2.5 miles of non- curve-restricted track for a stock (B)EMU (i.e. the same general make and class the T is buying for Fairmount) to reach 79 MPH vs. 2:36 for a diesel. They also accelerate...

You can forget about Northborough/Clinton Regional Rail ever being a thing if that's the final configuration. If we're eventually going to have overlapping all-local :30 Framingham short-turns layered with :30 semi-expressed Worcester turns, the Fitchburg Secondary makes for an extremely...

This. The speed differential between a 79 MPH-capped Regional Rail EMU set and a 50 MPH-capped Green Line set gets excruciating after a certain distance and a certain stop spacing, nevermind the relative creature comforts of the livery and relative total quantities of seats you have to be...

The Millis Industrial Track isn't abandoned yet. It's pretty much doomed as the last transload business died out about 5 years ago, and new operator Mass Coastal has next-to-no interest in running anything outside its South Coast + Cape base of operations, but they haven't formally petitioned...

The existing Franklin-Blackstone trail is very well-buffered. The ROW property lines range from 70 to 125 ft. wide, and there's hardly any abutters. It would be particularly easy to do up as rail-with-trail. And I doubt you'd need much double-track past Franklin Jct. for Woonsocket service...

There's a Superfund site halfway down the Franklin Industrial Track, and it's known that the soil contamination there has seeped onto the trackbed. They might be removing the out-of-service rails now because of the town now owning the ROW, but it's probably going to be a long time before it's...

No way! I want to be paid a cool $50K to tell them "Maybe you should try running the Fitchburg Line more times a day."

Somebody needs to do the maths on the related counts from the Blue Book portal for regular service during the same time period. We were already preemptively warned that they were projecting a ridership/fare deficit vs. regular service because of all the cancellations. I want to see it...