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The Reddit thread itself was closed to comments by Mods because the whole thread is just speculating that they would somehow forget to design for cold. According to that same MOD fact check note, the gates are rated for -22F and the same technology is used in Ottawa. My guess is that they didn't...

The experience riding the CRRC trains feels like a lot of slipping on acceleration resulting in it being very jolty rather than smooth. It feels like regular losses in power from a loss in traction so I'd guess that can be fixed with software? Though i figure if that was it they wouldve found a...

Speaking of, I've been seeing ~8-10 of the new cars in the maintenance area of Cabot every day for a bit now (from Fairmount line commute window. It's hard to tell but it looked like a 4 car train half inside a maintenance bay, another 4 car train sat at that boarding platform outside, and a...

I think the only place they can put it is just north of the maintenance vehicle crossing and signal at the switch behind Encore. The grade really starts to steepen right around there but there's ~1200' to work with before the curve under Sweetser, which has quite the superelevation to it, making...

A lot of very interesting information from this. Two-thirds of riders now reach Commuter Rail stations by bike or on foot should hopefully lead to some municipalities and the T reevaluating some of their Big Dig mitigation parking lots. In relation to the 71% Franklin Line modeshare, the...

That was an initial plan for the system with renderings the MBTA "cautioned that the design could change down the road." The proposed new fare gates are meant to be wider and have tap in and out capabilities, which I dont like, but back in 2018 they stated "During the transition between new and...

As of my commute yesterday 1/2/2026 the fare gates from platforms 8-13 were still covered and inactive.

It's the person who drives from Dorchester to Roxbury and is complaining about traffic that will never be convinced of anything. Most of the bus routes that travel through Dorchester go to Roxbury. They say they're now late to school dropoff (idk how not a minute of delay would cause that) but...

The Fairmount Line has been operating this way since 2024. It's so that riders could use Charlie Cards to ride all the Zone 1A stops in a similar way to riding the subway lines. Platforms have fare readers so that you can tap your Charlie Card and it dispenses a single ride Zone 1A receipt. This...

I wanna know what brainiac in 1990 (when Debra Dr was constructed) decided a brilliant idea was to build a cul-de-sac right up to one of the few remaining quite active freight railroad ROWs in the state at the time to get 6 homes. Right around the corner from an intermodal at a junction, too...

While I like the idea, it could bring weekend service to Stoughton, the problem is it'd eliminate the Stoughton Branch's pretty unbeatable time to South Station. It's only 40min to South Station and 30 to Ruggles. The only way driving is matching that is in the dead of night. Tacking on the...

I don't think the yard space is much of an issue since there's ample space at the current Forest Hills yard area if it takes over the truck pad. Potentially double the current storage capacity there. If a new yard were indeed needed, I'd say you could put it down the former Woonsocket Branch at...

A survey was done by the city in 2021 on what mode Seaport commuters use to get to work and the pre-pandemic mode share of Seaport workers who drove alone was 20%. Survey had 29% say they'd drive in after the pandemic but I'd imagine the reality is a lot of those jobs remained WFH, resulting in...

I mean it's only a single weekend

I think the prime candidates to get cut back would be the 30 and 51. Both serve as crosstown/circumferential routes connecting neighborhoods rather than feeder routes, and what little feeding they do in proximity to Forest Hills wouldn't be needed if passengers can transfer at Roslindale Village...

Even if they spend billions of dollars to electrify the regional rail system, that doesn't change the fact that people still need to pay hundreds a month on a car to be able to access their basic necessities in most of the state. Keeping the cost of the regional rail the exact same won't move...

Ive long held the opinion that the real key to increasing regional rail ridership, reducing highway traffic, and decreasing pollution in the city of Boston is rather than making buses free, using the same money the state would need to allocate to that to instead subsidize much reduced regional...

You cant be proactive on how many passengers will be at each stop, how long they will take to board, cars blocking tracks despite train having green (Hardvard Ave), operator operational variability, emergency vehicles changing signal phases (E on Huntington), etc, all across 4 lines. Dispact...

You're confusing Type III with Type V (of the infamous 5 over 1) construction. Type III construction uses a non-combustible exterior material like brick and stone around fire-retardant-treated exterior wooden framing members. The A vs B is whether or not the interior framing members need...