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Green Line operator informed my girlfriend that the new fare readers will be going live very soon. I expected "This Summer" coming from the T to be September but if it's coming in the early stages of summer I'll be relatively impressed.

Something similar was discussed in here before if someone can find it. I think the problem was the deal RI made with the MBTA is that RI would pay for operations expenses of the commuter rail in RI but they'd keep ticket revenue or something like that. So the T has no incentive to run better...

This state is a similar size to Belgium with a higher GDP and $7bil more annual tax revenue with a few million less people. If we were to be as financially independent as certain states like to pretend they are we'd have a lot more potential to do big things. Theoretically.

I think y'all're completely forgetting that 2024 is the year of shutdown after shutdown to fix the rail system. Of course the fare revenue is gonna be depressed when every other week for half the FY is free shuttle buses to replace a large segment of rail for 9+ days. FY24 had 3 Red, 6 Green, 2...

It says "to operate a commuter bus network" does this mean they want to run express coach buses between Springfield, Greenfield, and Pittsfield? Or maybe more like G73E type routes?

Boils down to money. 2 hours service while offering the $10 weekend pass allows them to maintain a low operations cost while attracting enough riders to maximize rider loads on those low costs because "its the weekend nobody's in a rush." Bi-hourly is also the minimum they can run each line with...

It looks like the 30min Fairmount Line service is working well to attract riders. Usually during the morning rush the east side lots at Readville are functionally empty but this morning they were 50% full at 8am

Greenbush dinky to Quincy. Those rich folks, and Weymouth, get their quiet train with no wires and higher frequencies in exchange for having a 2 seat ride. Could also actually have downtown stations in those towns with a short quiet FLIRT platform

I think a solid contributor to the general trend of more traffic light adherence is that European cities tend to actually have prevalent 21st century traffic signaling. Here our ancient lights are almost entirely on basic timers even though you can see the detection loop in the approach lanes in...

I think this could be potentially really simple to enforce in the Boston area at least. There are a solid amount of existing bicycle cops, and deploying them to ride around the shared use paths for patrol to simply tell anyone going too fast to slow down could go a long way. For police officers...

Yes I should have explicitly included enforcement in there, in my head it was part of that "infrastructure that prevents dangerous cycling." Though even with enforcement you can't have everything covered at every time. There will always be the rule-breakers, thats why there should be physical...

With driving culture being so ingrained in Americans, most if which probably car commuted before bike commuting, that road behavior has carried on into their cycling. In particular the not being courteous around pedestrians or slower riders part. Ultimately humans will always have those that...

The other day I saw a Type 9 on the B with a headsign reading "Express to Harvard Ave" which I have not seen displayed before. I don't know if I've conveniently never seen an express Type 9 from the outside and only been in them where the interior signs do display express

The Carlton Bridge bike channels have still not been fixed

Just got a Better Bus Project update email and this paragraph was interesting. This would suggest they never had an inventory of physical bus stops and signs before, only the # and ID of the stop itself but nothing related to the physical infrastructure. Id imagine it was on a by sight or...

I took the 34E everyday up until last fall out to Norwood and back for work because I couldn't afford the commuter rail more than a few times a month. Most of the traffic out beyond Norwood is local Norwood-Walpole rather than all the way to Boston. There was typically up to 5 people that I'd...

Aren't the complaints of idling noise and horn sounding primarily directed at the CSX yard? The MBTA yard is separated from the nearest home by 400' of other industrial buildings and trees, and those trains are typically hooked up to off-board power so that they don't idle unless they're...

This us in the technical requirements for the Red #4 and Orange #14 rolling stock so with the new digital signaling the capability is there to make it safely happen when track work is done and fixed. Full depth track replacement of various parts of the rapid transit system is in the CIP so if...

With 30min being the scheduled run time of the Fairmount under diesel power I'd assume they'd run 2 dedicated trainsets all day that only dwell at the ends long enough for boarding and alighting (and if they're ahead of schedule). Compared to currently where they sit at the ends for ~15min, this...

This is exactly what more people need to understand. The Green Line is (for the most part) just a tram and incredibly subject to human variables in speed and schedule adherence. Entire long light cycles at major intersections can be missed when an operator decides to kindly reopen doors for...