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That render is of a Caltrain-mod (i.e. both high- and low-boarding doors) Stadler bi-level KISS BEMU. That exact make is what they're leasing for Fairmount. The Stadler FLIRT is a single-level car instead of a bi-level, but the floor height is low so its doors can't board at Northeast U.S...

Plus I don't even think Fairmount's and Readville's low platforms are 8 inches above the railhead to begin with like all of Caltrain's stops are, so the onboard bridge plates from the low-level doors probably wouldn't reach down to an acceptable ADA interface to begin with. The mini-high is...

Relocated double-track Readville is a requirement for the "future possibility of 15-minute service" that the slides talk about, because they need to be able to berth 2 trains at once to gain acceptable padding to do sub-20 minute frequencies at the turnback. So these BEMU frequencies, while...

It won't be a Stadler FLIRT; they're low- and middle-high platform only. The only adaptation of it that gets even sorta close (and even then not totally) to 48-inch boarding heights is a British customization that does raised ends and stairs down into the middle seating area...totally...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/28/even-with-80-tickets-mbta-expects-to-lose-money-on-world-cup-transit-service As predicted, all of the WC regular service disruptions are causing the T to lose money on event service. :(

Looks like a coincidence of the sand layers in the soil that the grade ends up mostly flat, such that going a couple tenths of a degree flatter would allow enough level space for a platform. But they weren't considering it at all back then. Since the grade forces the entirety of the platform...

FEIS Volume I FEIS Volume II (includes sections on Arlington Center and Arlington Heights stations)

Very little. Route 128 was proposed in the 1960's, but back then it was going to portal-up on the Fitchburg Line right at Porter and skip straight to Alewife and the Lexington Branch on the surface with no Davis alignment whatsoever. And that was back when the Route 2 expressway extension was...

The 1975 plan was tunnel all the way. And yes, the yard (which I think was to be above-ground) was going to go on the Arlington Coal & Lumber property. Most likely they'd keep to the 1975 tunneling plans verbatim. The only real change would be that Arlington Center and Arlington Heights...

You can hear it in exactly one spot...the emergency exit near Mass Ave. Everywhere else it's silent. That was my daily walking route for the whole decade I lived in North Cambridge. The only people who are going to throw a shit fit are the ones who throw a shit fit about anything and...

Not a single bench to be found. :(

The continued existence of the 77 makes borderline considerations for an East Arlington stop a lot less fraught. It probably has to be the Minuteman ROW full-stop because utility relocation is such a freaking huge variable in tunneling costs, and the Minuteman has virtually none of that to...

Alewife is an absolutely dysfunctional bus hub, and was never intended to host as many routes via the Route 2 frontage roads as it did after the Arlington Heights extension was canceled in the 70's. It's an operational quagmire because of the traffic problems around Alewife, and the frequencies...

It's a long game for sure, but it all starts with consistent self-advocacy. Arlington is starting the process of vociferous self-advocacy.

Also, infamously, B&M and Pan Am were never ever able to get railroad insurance coverage for the Hoosac after it was acquired from the Fitchburg RR in 1900. So it's always been an unusually expensive route to operate and maintain because they don't have any standard coverage for outages caused...

Given that the Hoosac Tunnel already has a long-term susceptibility to cave-ins, and the fact that the portion of Berkshires closest to Pittsfield (as opposed to North Adams) is a much more motley assortment of rock and glacial fill, I don't think base tunneling is going to be an all that...

https://media.amtrak.com/2026/05/amtraks-berkshire-flyer-returns-for-summer-service-with-expanded-weekend-trips-between-pittsfield-and-new-york-city/ Amtrak Berkshire Flyer (New York-Albany-Pittsfield) is back for the 2026 summer season after being bustituted for the entire 2025 season due to a...

What the shit kind of lame trolling hottake is this?!? :rolleyes:

Seriously, Glob? A drawn-out fluff piece on the "Man Behind The Deck" that barely mentions the giant FUBAR of a stalled development that was supposed to go on top of the deck? That was 900 words of text my braincells are never going to recoup the wasted effort of reading.