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I’m more curious to see what the closures look like in the back half of this year - I think every major closure this year has been for signal upgrades? With red and orange line (and maybe even GLTPS install) allegedly wrapping up in the next month, I’d imagine the weeklong closures will all but...

Each group represents at least 2 maybe 3 trains which explains the arrival time range. At the friendly match, the trains took 50 minutes to get to the station which would imply that the first train in group A will leave around 3:20. Not sure why queuing starts an hour in advance of that, but...

From Prospect Hill where it has basically fully blocked the Pru

From a couple weeks ago - it really towers over everything around it but definitely in a good way.

It started temporarily as a COVID/overenrollment measure (the hotel was empty and NEU overenrolled by ~1000 in 2021ish and needed somewhere to put everyone) and then they applied to make it permanent which is probably why it didn’t get much press - it’s been used for students for like 4 years now

Yeah TransitMatters shows the other lines are over 90% service delivered as compared to scheduled while the green line is at 75% so it’s probably an attempt to be more honest about the service they’re actually providing. Hopefully in practice this actually isn’t a service cut at all even though...

This also shows the insane pent-up demand that restrictive zoning has been holding back this whole time, as well as makes a strong argument for why all towns have to participate for this law to work - if all other towns near Lexington had upzoned to the same extent, I doubt any individual town...

On that stretch yes, but North Quincy to Braintree and back looks like speeds have increased all day so far - looks like it saves about a minute in each direction (as far as we can tell with half a day of info).

It’s not truly cross-platform but the Franklin line has a timed transfer to the Providence at Readville to get to Back Bay/Ruggles on the weekends, and that is as short as 7 mins (and even requires some walking to get down to the Providence platform). So they definitely could get it shorter, but...

Agreed, especially compared to how much the site stuck out with all the cranes- it was super prominent in the skyline when those were standing and now you need to really know where to look to even notice it.

Did anyone hear about this coming? This seems like an out-of-nowhere and incredible development - TSP on every bus route in Boston starting imminently...

Speaking of near Jackson Square, has there ever been any word of Roxbury Community College selling/developing those lots across Columbus? That seems like the next low-hanging fruit to build up that area, especially once Columbus gets its bus lane extension that will make it at least a little...

It’s also technically a reopening of an entrance that’s been closed since the 80s using an existing tunnel under Mass Ave, so likely much cheaper and easier than an entirely from-scratch new entrance would have been.

Doesn’t shortening the platforms change the amount of egress required? The old concept had two overhead bridges and this only has one - there’s a good chunk of cost savings. For the record I don’t agree with the 400’ platform decision either for all the reasons listed but that may a driving factor.

At least this weekend, they were using the crossover between East Somerville and Lechmere to turn trains, no single track operation. The southbound train would pull in to East Somerville, let everyone off, continue past the crossover to stop, then cross to the northbound track on the way back...

I honestly think people would prefer the entire branch be closed rather than having to take green line to a shuttle bus to the orange line to get to work downtown - not that they don’t have other reasons to close the whole branch but that could be a main reason? People can stomach a forced...

I think that number is the number of net new developable units in specific zones of the city as calculated by this slide times 0.25% (as it says on slide 10), which yeah seems to be a very narrow estimate of how much is getting built since there’s definitely over 120 net new units currently...

Where did you get the line-by-line breakdown from?

Agreed, especially since it’s one of the very few times that the residents are basically screaming at Somerville to push the development forward - they’re being very YIMBY for once and seeing no results from that yet is a letdown.