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All of those cities except Danvers are accessible by a train from North Station. But I get your point that the last mile is difficult. The goal for many transit advocates is to reorient land use policies to favor living and working in transit accessible areas. Not continue the status quo of...

The NSRL really wouldn't be able to work if it was built piecemeal. The approach to SS under coming from Back Bay requires a tunnel boring machine for a large portion of it. That would be too difficult to remove downtown and it can only travel in one direction (so reversing out the way it came...

If the urban ring extends to at least Chelsea via the Eastern and the Reading line is converted to OL, I would wonder if it’s even worth it to go through all the trouble of building a CR stop at Sullivan. One could transfer to UR at Chelsea and OL north at NS. It would be less convenient, sure...

Looks great! I’m not big on the whole staircase seating here, though. There are places where this works, but this specifically is a poor placement for it. Before and after games there will be big crowds coming through there and the larger staircase will be needed. And not to sound too much like...

I stand corrected, I wasn't aware of that. Granted I couldn't make out the bus number in the photo. Are the XDE60's capable of running on sole battery power in the transitway? I was under the impression diesels couldn't operate through that due to ventilation requirements.

This is one of the five battery electric buses being used on the silver line as part of the pilot program. It runs on battery power in the transitway. There is a small diesel generator on board these, as is standard in most BEB's. https://www.mbta.com/projects/bus-electrification

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Much was destroyed, but it could’ve been even worse. The Spring St arterial was a 4-lane road which stretched from High St to Union St. Many buildings were destroyed to make way for this, but it was supposed to extend all the way to Franklin arterial. Luckily preservationists stopped this from...

Wouldn’t full regional rail warrant at least 2019 service levels? Even if it’s all day service as opposed to peak hour, I would think it wouldn’t take long to reach that level of demand

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/17/business/east-west-rail-could-be-train-nowhere-if-postal-service-doesnt-move/ I didn’t realize that one of the major hurdles for E/W Rail is in fact SSX. I may have missed that in the documents… Either way, I think this should put to bed the whole SSX vs...

This just happens to be my dad’s friend. When he picked up arrestees, he always used to get on the radio and say “We’re off to see the wizard!” He never got in trouble, but I can’t imagine that flying today :LOL:

We need to bring this back…

@Cosakita18 I love this thread. I’ve always enjoyed looking at old pictures of Portland, especially the aerial photos of the waterfront. The city looked so much more bustling back then, and it gave off big city vibes through some of the pics. The bottom is the old Vaughan’s Bridge to South...

Civic Center under construction in 1976

It’s a new position so we’ll see what gets developed

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/03/23/exclusive-andy-byford-to-join-amtrak/ While it’s unfortunate for us that the T couldn’t land Train Daddy as new GM, I’m excited that Andy will join Amtrak leading the high-speed rail development. This is a great move

I would imagine anything remotely like this at Lechmere, if it was there at all, was VE’d out

Do you know if the tracks can accommodate 90mph with minimal upgrades (other than PTC)? If so, would CSX want to allow trains traveling faster than 79? I know that the St Louis-CHI segment of 110mph had to be a completely separate track on the same ROW. Is that the minimum FRA requirement for...

The Flynn Cruise Terminal also has a glass boarding bridge Edit: that pic is the old one. Here’s the current bridge: https://www.adelte.com/project/boston-raymond-l-flynn-black-falcon-cruise-terminal/

There is also a single track line between Braintree and Boston that the Greenbush and two other Old Colony lines have to share. This is due to the shared ROW with the red line and space constraints on either side of it. The MBTA has said this is a major choke point for these lines and it...