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I think it'd make a lot of sense to put a stop in Indian Orchard around Rt20/Pasco Rd. There's a lot of employment as a destination and over 25k residents of Springfield living east of Bradley Rd. It'd make a lot more sense for them and Ludlow residents to have a station there rather than...

I live on the border of Brookline and need to travel through it for just about everything I do everyday especially when biking somewhere and everything I experience is the exact opposite of this. Brookline is the absolute least safe place I have the misfortune of needing to bike through. I feel...

Not to say that I think upgrading the track to facilitate 87mph speeds on the curve is worth pursuing but I don't see what is necessitated from an EMU to hit 87mph at Riverside? Amtrak doesn't make any stops between Framingham and Back Bay so there isn't any sort of acceleration restriction as...

I biked Washington St every single day and parking is virtually empty all the time save for between the fire station and Washington Sq and at the Police Station in Brookline Village, but the drivers who use it are so horrendous it's never felt safe. I've been purposely hit by drivers twice on...

Mostly the usual kicking the can down the road but what stands out is the reinforcement of his desire to build capacity to perform projects more in-house. Also interesting are his words about electrification. Stating that "this doesn't mean there's isn't not catenary [on the Fairmount] it just...

Tufts St reconstruction

From their Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

Not sure if this has been answered there's a lot to read through I might've missed it but yeah the dwell times and slow doors are a response to the door malfunction death and the various FTA safety initiatives. The operational procedure has been to establish a line of sight on the platform when...

MassPort makes $214mil/year (2024) from parking which is over 20% of their total revenue and greater than landing fee revenue, so it's very much in their interest to cater to the economy garage over there and discourage the use of alternative modes to reach the airport. Logan Express itself...

A lot of the terrible bus-bus and bus-train transfers can be chocked up to the MBTA's "bus stop safety standard" or however they word it. It really just means they don't want to slow cars so they put stops on the far side of intersection where possible, or in Mountfort St's case on the 47, as...

Franklin Line Double Track project page has received an update displaying some updated timeline elements. Over a year to finish 1.5mi of track that has largely already been sitting out on ties but with no ballast for years now says to me that they're committing the absolute minimum of...

I thought the whole issue with doing more frequent but shorter consists on the weekends that was discussed in the forums before was that the MBTA particularly likes to keep the same consists assembled and assigned to the same lines most of the time to avoid a lot of yard action? I've been riding...

I was wondering what these "bags" they kept mentioning for covering the new signs were gonna look like and that is not at all what I expected.

Coincidentally I was reading through the Bus Stop Feedback (starts on pg.30) the other day and it may give some insight into the opinions of community members on stop placement. Residents seem very concerned with stops being placed at some major intersections because of the danger of drivers...

MBTA Open Data Portal. It has monthly ridership data by mode going back to January 2016.

September was the best month for weekday ridership so far following the pandemic. Commuter Rail ridership is up to 94% of September 2019. Bus, 81%. Rapid transit 56%, which isn't great but relative to its prior peak of 51% that's a sizable jump and the first time rapid transit ridership has...

I really like what's going on in the left screen there and hope it makes it to the final product. Digitizing the system map could potentially mean it could be live updated to reflect active service outages and the like. It's also preventative of having out of date system maps if any line...

I'm right with you that the new hard flat plastic seats are both uncomfortable and not very ergonomic. It would've been nice if they made them more bucket-shaped like the NYC subway seats at the very least. I guess it's pretty subjective what is considered a long commute. Even with the Red Line...

Accusing me of not reading the study when that was not at all their "number 1 study conclusion" not that they necessarily ordered the concluding remarks of the executive summary on the first page following the table of contents which is where those "downsides" pull from but rather bulleted them...

Well I had a thing with pictures typed but then the page refreshed and it didn't save a draft and I'm not typing that again so the tl;dr/10% summary of it is: 2012-2016 studies are barely relevant the city and especially the study area of MIT and Kendall have changed so much since then with...