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Whether or not significant of a revision to the zone fare structure is eventually made, this could be an excellent opportunity to streamline interzone fares. Simply applying a flat fare matching current local bus pricing for any trip that neither originates nor ends in zones 1/1A would encourage...

Crazy pitch: RL/OL Meet & Cross at Harvard This would be a major project extending an Orange Line branch from Back Bay outbound under the Pike, then through Allston via a new four-track OL/RL tunnel to Harvard. The OL would take over the current Red Line ROW to Alewife, while the RL would turn...

The two-block busway between Harvard and Union Sq. could do a lot to relieve traffic on an absurdly congested stretch of road even without re-implementing train service. Any other spots where medians could be turned into bus lanes to buy busses a short reprieve from traffic? S. Huntington...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 Quite right... My mistake...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 That an MBTA budget analyst doesn't understand that the Red Sox play the same number of home games every year seems indicative of the MBTA's understanding of the city's transit environment and needs in general. Thanks for saying it, UrbEx; Cut the...

If only we could sell the Silver Line to pay for the years of routine maintenance deferred to pay for the Silver Line.

Thanks, Arborway, for summing up the BRT issue. Perhaps having time to take a second look at the viability of running huge, slow buses through our cramped and crowded, three-hundred year old downtown is the silver lining (no pun intended) to the MBTA's financial problems.

Fantastic! Implementing a BRT route actually seems like a great way to provide service which would otherwise be undone by coincidences of regulation like this one. If the MBTA was faced with the choice of having either rail or Fed funding for the Ted, then they probably made the right choice...

Well, right. The portion of the SL already built is here to stay (at least until the state decides that it's cheaper to abandon the whole thing than to replace the buses in ten years), and can't be retroactively wished into being rail service. My point is that the additional effort or cash...

I appreciate where you're coming from regarding the SL out to SL Way. The courthouse/new ICA/world trade center area certainly deserves better transit than regular bus service, and needs to be connected to downtown. If we're building dedicated ramps and BRT lanes though, why not just go for...

This is really what baffles and infuriates me about the resistance to restoration of full E line service. JP is part of the city. Living along the E line in the pre-gentrification eighties, I certainly never heard complaints that regular train service was destroying business or disturbing...

Alright, alright, I understand that the real issue here is that the MBTA wants nothing to do with street-running rail, and that planners and policy makers in thrall to the bus lobby would prefer to see all public transit replaced with bus service. Let's pretend for a minute, though, that we're...

While this thread does contain a little bit of sparring over whether Siver Line Phase III is a good idea or not, there doesn't seem to be much discussion of the viability of BRT in Boston in general. Examples of successful BRT systems all look to have benefited from simple existing...