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1972 Boston Transportation Planning Review. The complete study isn't available online, only the Executive Summary. Which is weird that it hasn't been scanned out of the State Transportation Library yet because it was a major big-deal comprehensive planning study that influenced immediate...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/06/25/orange-line-extension-reactions-blue-hill-ave TransitMatters is not amused with Councillors Culpepper's and Worrell's Orange Line deke.

The traffic island on Tremont @ Marginal. They'd have redone the intersection so the buses portaled up in the middle of the road. The SL III tunnel was actually going to come down Charles St. South in the last plan before the plug got pulled. Underpinning the Tremont trolley tunnel was a cost...

Parking parking parking. That's 100.00% the basis of their opposition no matter how much they're playing the race card or plying false equivalencies with the rail=transit/bus≠transit talking points, and is the complete basis of their crayoning insistence that any transit be completely...

There was a Reddit thread about the councillors' sham community meeting demonizing the bus lanes from a couple months ago in which one commenter with lots of experience dealing directly with the Council expounded a bit on what it's like to work with Culpepper. He's apparently always on his...

Just wait till Culpepper and Worrell hear about how many BHA parking spaces are going to get disrupted by a massive decade-long tunnel works project! Why, they'll be demanding that Trump immediately rescind that $4B grant that's surely right around the corner on grounds that it's totally racist.

Gee, Councillors, I wonder who's consigning the neighborhood to shoddy bus service.

They circumvented fair bidding by appending the project as a change order onto a completely unrelated already-awarded project to the same bidder (Suffolk Construction). That's quite freaking not-okay, and quite freaking directly tied to the extremely bloated cost ($35M) of the renovation...

Lessons? Like controlling costs for once in their useless lives and not breaking state laws because they were in such a terrible rush? Hell no!

LLM's puke out inaccurate slop in large part due to the fact that they laser-in on places like freaking Reddit to train their models. Garbage-in, garbage-out.

A non-botched poll question with some degree of follow-up questioning would sure help for starters. Why are we even prognosticating what "reality" truly is when this single throwaway poll question was so badly-worded that nothing substantive can be drawn from it? Purpose-and-need need to be...

Regional Rail locals to Framingham are going to need something longer than 400-500 ft. And if the bus connections (e.g. 71 to Harvard extended to the NC station) are sufficiently enhanced, it'll attract at least a few thru-Worcester runs wanting to stop there at peak. Don't forget, we've...

The chances of this working out are very very small. The passenger cars don't have traditional couplers, so they can't intermix with coach-class Amfleets to provide typical Northeast Regional capacity. Acelas are first-class and business-class only, with only 304 seats per 6-car set vs. up to...

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The single question they asked is so incoherently worded it's hard to have gotten any straight answer whatsoever out of it. "Would you be willing to pay IF there was less traffic?" Not "Would you be willing to pay FOR there to be less traffic", but as if the traffic had already magically...

You cite the frequencies to cut that off. They spent so much on the BEMU lease that raising the Fairmount Station platform and rebuilding Readville Station as a 2-track island immediately came off the table to pare additional capital costs. Not having a 2-track Readville terminus and not...

The problem with that is that they've got their fake much-worse-than-Caltrain cost talking points about electrification cost to lean back on. The bus and rail decarbonization presentation to the Board a couple months ago tried out a novel angle that the state's grid reliability and availability...

They don't have the space or switcher equipment to pry apart and recombine sets during the service day, especially on the southside. So they're short several dozen cars and a half-dozen locos right off the rip. The cancellations span all-day because they're completely structurally unable to...

TransitMatters has been hammering them very loudly all along on these points. They're very much against the battery distractions from implementing bread-and-butter Regional Rail best practices. Unfortunately the state has gotten very used to ignoring TM's advocacy, so they don't drive the...

And they're still serving fewer commuters and losing more money per trip even with sold-the-hell-out overpriced WC runs because of all the equipment that had to be raided and all the other systemwide schedules that had to get hosed to make this happen. ^Those^ lines are the equivalent of...