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There's so little space in there between A11 and B1 anyway that it's probably effectively impossible to shove another gate in there that doesn't block at least one of those two.

Makes perfect sense. If you're someone who can afford that price jump, you're someone Melrose would welcome 🙃 In all seriousness, though, while it is absolutely ridiculous how much the fare jumps from zone 1A to 1 (particularly since you can see Oak Grove from Wyoming. Actually, you can see...

It makes sense in a twisted way that screams "Massport didn't want to re-number a million gates". The B-numbered gates are just sequential, and crossing from B into C it goes C23, C24, C25, with the higher numbers out on the pier. Terminal C's numbering overall is very nonsensical, possibly...

It's in the B-C connector. That's a JetBlue flight number so I'm guessing it has Terminal C listed there because that's where JetBlue check-in would be. If it just said Gate B40, people might inadvertently go to Terminal B, and not be able to check in and check baggage. So it actually does make...

It's a shame Government Center doesn't have a loop with a convenient cross-platform transfer that could be used to help deal with some of the crowding that results. I was at GC this afternoon (before rush hour) and the first train that came in (probably five or so minutes max after the one I'd...

That red diagram was an embedded image, and all the stuff on top of it was separate layers, which made it a lot easier than I thought it would be to pull it out in Illustrator. No idea why that was done like that, but I'm glad it was.

The PDF linked by @stick n move had an excellent diagram of that area of old Haymarket, buried under a bunch of layers. I've rotated it to approximately match the orientation of the 3D version.

Trying to access that when it's busy (on the inbound side) would be pretty awkward. Copley's platform isn't super wide. (Though T riders are likely familiar with the awkwardness of single access points at platform ends.)

Is Metro finally back to automatic operation? They'd basically completely abandoned that after the 2009 crash.

Yeah, eastbound is interchangeable with northbound at GC. I think they still use eastbound/westbound as railroad directions operationally (which makes sense), even if the wayfinding signage at GC now says "North Station & North" on that side. There isn't room for that without taking the roof...

I think this design is physically impossible, and, if not, so wildly impractical that it makes no difference. Extending the old-alignment half of the Brattle Loop to connect to the Park Street end means plowing through, at minimum, the current Blue Line elevators and the stairs from the...

Appears to be a statue of Jerome Wheelock

Emergency exit at the north end of Medford/Tufts.

That's a good question. I seem to recall an incident (though probably a good 15+ years ago) where a passenger fell asleep on a GL train, wasn't noticed, and woke up with the train parked in Riverside yard, so it does seem like they don't always make sure everyone is completely off the trains...

They were definitely referring to SL Phase III (they mentioned one-seat rides from Roxbury to the Seaport/Airport as a project benefit). One imagines no one there knows just why that (indeed terrible) project died (or the reasons Washington St. transit and the Seaport service were...

Uh...is there a serious transit deficiency this would alleviate? There's been much discussion around here of various pitches to address Everett's transit needs (and occasionally Charlestown's). I have to say, I fail to see what would be particularly useful or helpful about a LRT line...

To be clear, my comment was about Government Center, and I think the elevator thing there was a state requirement, not necessarily federal ADA. I don't know if similar reasons are why Medford/Tufts' emergency exit wasn't made a full headhouse. I know in one of Baker & Company's value...

Yes My understanding is that they would have had to install elevators, which was presumably deemed excessive for a secondary entrance.

One hopes so...

Kinda. It's not really a partisan thing. (It's really more a structural thing with how the state House works, in that the Republicans have no power and the Democrats have no spine, so if the speaker of the day doesn't care, nothing gets done. But "blaming the governor" is more intuitive than...