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My two cents are that urban rapid transit is not intended to be something people need to spend much time on (hence prioritizing standing room) so cheaper, easier to clean, sanitize, etc. seats are preferred over comfort. But the Green Line is in a unique position where it is in every way a tram...

To give them benefit of the doubt colloquially people say "the T" to exclusively refer to the trains

There's a YouTube railfan who's been documenting the progress on the restoration of the Newport Railway between the transit center and Pell Bridge alongside rail-with-trail. They have I think a 40-tonner and 2 RDCs already there and operational. If they had funding they could probably easily run...

The full official name of the state of Rhode Island wasn't what it was until 2020 for no reason. Despite being the first to pass an anti-slavery law in 1652, it wasn't enforced and by 1755 10% of the colony's population was slaves. Uhhh to tie it back to SCR, what is Fall River today was part...

Columbus Ave hosts 3 routes on Phase 1 and 6 on Phase 2, 3 of which being in the top 5 ridership bus routes in the system. Blue Hill hosts 2-4 depending on segment with the same 3 high ridership routes in parts, accounting for 40,000 daily bus riders. Both of those corridors are playing in a...

Seems they're confident or that whatever would be missed due to delays can be fixed in a series of overnight works

FWIW Providence's official metro area is just the state of RI plus Bristol County, MA whilst Worcester's metro area is just Worcester County. Neither of which I believe properly represents the core urbanized extent of each which would be a better measure of the impact and feasibility of a metro...

On the Green Line yesterday I overheard a conversation the operator was having with a regular passenger and heard a couple interesting things about his opinions on the current leadership. He was very adamant that "Eng is a much better GM than the previous 2 at the T." He said that he encounters...

With how far away Bourne is for how sparsely populated the communities are would there be the track capacity and feasibility to run service only as far as Braintree for a future improved Red Line or cross-platform at the center island transfer? On the Cape Flyer schedule that’d be 69min to...

Dispatch from BC and Cleveland Circle are actually pretty good... until they run out of trains to dispatch. My main qualm with T dispatching practice is that they don't like sending out a train if the next train after they plan to send out hasn't arrived yet. It makes sense with weather and...

There's enough room on Comm Ave for an 8-Lane stroad and the Green Line ROW if you remove parking and the grade separated bike lanes, which would've already been done if this was Texas. For the most part the Comm Ave section of the 57 isn't actually that bad because the B and 57 eat up so much...

In a scenario with electrified regional rail, adding a station at Newton Corner without eliminating any other wouldn't effect travel times with any significance. A reality with West Station and the Grand Junction restored could operate the Newton Stations to a new Riverside. Even with diesel...

At the most base level, if the B were to be properly consolidated like a tram should be into less stops between Kenmore and Amory, you'd want the 57 around to accommodate your short trips in the gaps between. There's an incredibly amount of housing density and trip generation from Union Sq...

They've been doing it on the B too. The western branches are ran essentially at the train operators' discretion so I can only really shrug when some decide not to open the rear doors cause they want to ensure people pay while others don't care. In my experience even if only the front doors are...

It's been on the western branches since day one but I've been hearing it less recently

Friend of mine is part of a construction team working on the Braintree Branch Red Line track today and they're in the process of thermite welding in North Quincy. There was a full depth track replacement all the way down to the ties and ballast. It's gonna be strange seeing light gray gravel and...

It reads to me like the East Taunton short turns are going to be midday in the off peak direction like how the Fitchburg short turns at Littleton every other hour. The "This allows for even more frequent service, which is consistent with the All Day Service model across the rest of the Commuter...

Sounds to me like Middleboro - South Station will then be seeing 35min headways on weekdays and 60min headways on weekends

When thinking about the overnight service question before I made this rough routing in Google Earth with the goal of orienting routes to converge on areas of high night employment, hospitals, clubs, etc, and trying to have the Boston area's population center neighborhoods within a 20min walk of...

People aren't enabled to move out by Brighton because transportation cost is the same, otherwise Brighton and Watertown wouldn't have a 50%+ driving commute modeshare and the 500s wouldn't have 1200 riders each packed in only 20-something daily trips. People move where housing is cheaper and...