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Can't do that, at least not without huge expense, because of the track junctions immediately adjacent to the station.

Bit of a line to take the train to the World Cup game:

The plastic thing next to the fence in the last photo? It's a handwashing station for the portapotties.

I've never been convinced that Arlington and Lexington have the population density to make RLX worthwhile.

Several bits of good news on the MCRT. Our Metro-West town meetings have been busy (all links to a public Facebook group): Hudson Town Meeting unanimously passes design funding for their stretch of the MCRT Sudbury Town Meeting...

I really like this proposal (the "Alternative C"). Though I wonder if it would be doable to add an elevated ramp from the bike lane on the overpass to the upstream side of the BU Bridge, eliminating the need for the light where the path crosses the BU Bridge traffic at grade.

In happier news: https://www.nj.com/news/2026/04/its-really-happening-128b-contract-awarded-to-drill-the-gateway-tunnel-under-the-hudson.html

Huh. That's a hugely popular driving route they're closing down, despite it being a huge PITA due to the ~5-second green interval for Mossland. I hope they've done traffic analyses to determine where the people currently going from Cedar to Beacon are going to go instead. Probably through the...

When Older Kid and I went to see the mockup, there were a few people complaining about the narrow aisles. I assumed they had to be that narrow because that's where the wheels are, but apparently they were able to shave a few inches.

Then there's 1.5M for If they've been in service for 8-9 years, what's this 1.5M for?

IIRC the second Courthouse headhouse was originally supposed to be built into a building that was proposed for that location.

Timed transfers involving the Late For Sure Limited seems like kind of a dubious proposition.

How the hell does it take an full DECADE to build a not particularly long or complicated bridge?! The entire fucking Big Dig took only a little more time than that.

Interesting, this indicates that the emergency exit stair at the north end of the Porter platforms comes up into one of the gratings in the Porter Square Shopping Center parking lot, I assume the smaller of the two. Which I suppose I could have guessed.

Somerville DPW has a few of these, but I haven't seen them in action after this storm, the snow removal operations I've seen have used skid steers etc.

Ari Osfevit advocates for a ped/bike bridge here: https://ariofsevit.com/apb/2026/01/03/bu-bridge-an-edge-case-where-a-bike-ped-bridge-makes-sense/ I'm pretty sure the existing overpass is too steep to be used for this purpose, even if one thinks it's worth saving which I don't.

I'm mostly referring to the big partial gears and linkage that raise and lower the bridge. I'd have expected the drive mechanism to operate on the counterweight beam.

Looking at it on Street View, that is a _weird_ design for the new bridge.

Hey, I invented the dropback! (Obviously, not the first to do so, and not under that name.) One time when they were turning Red Line trains at Park Street, I observed that the trains just sat there for a few minutes while the operator walked to the other end, and wondered why they don't stagger...

Union Pacific wants to take Big Boy on a coast to coast tour to celebrate the Sestercentennial (yes, that's the correct term for a 250th anniversary), https://www.trains.com/pro/freight/class-i/union-pacific-plans-to-send-the-big-boy-from-coast-to-coast-for-americas-250th/ It'd be awesome if it...