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The "MBTA Commuter Rail Ridership by Trip, Season, Route Line, and Stop" dataset has now been fixed. Anyone who wants to analyze Fairmount Line ridership boosts after frequency improvements, the floor is yours!

Hmm, the 66 and 86 still had their layovers at Dawes Island as of Q1 2025 when I last visited there. Perhaps that was a more recent change?

The Bus Network Redesign (BNRD) interactive Remix map has been quietly updated to the Summer 2025 version. No major changes. Here are some minor changes based on what I remember from the Summer 2024 version. Unfortunately, the 2024 version was not archived. (An archive of the original Revised...

Route 90 will be amended to Washington St, skipping Cross St and Broadway, when the summer schedule starts on June 15: There's also a set of slides linked in the press release, dated November 8, 2024. The stated reason was the addition of bike lanes on Tufts St, making it unsuitable for large...

EZRide Cambridge, currently the only connection between North Station, Lechmere, Kendall and Cambridgeport, massively expanded operating hours in April: https://mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/02/ezride-in-cambridge-expands-schedule-with-frequent-service-midday-and-weekend-trips It now operates...

While it's impressive for you to lay out a detailed naming protocol, I actually disagree with a large number of them: There are a couple of cases where I really don't think this works well. Among current stations, I think the worst offenders are: Park St, South St, Central (Sq), Green St, Union...

I don't have enough local knowledge of Beijing or any Chinese city with subways, so I'll do as much as I can based on quick looks at present-day maps. In theory, you can have the following scenarios, depending on both the timelines of subway planning and urban renewals: The village first goes...

"Fall" for the station leading into Winter, and "Spring" for the station from Winter to Summer? :ROFLMAO: (Not a serious proposal. The name "Fall" in particular has too many issues to be used for one of the most important stations in the system.)

A few other aspects of standardization that I would like to see: 1. Stations named after squares: Whether the station's name includes "Square", "Sq", or nothing at all Stations without "Square": Kendall, Central, Porter, Davis, Andrew, Bowdoin, Maverick, Copley, Kenmore, Nubian Stations with...

Improving wayfinding of station exits I propose the following improvements for station exits: Give an explicit label (letter or number) for each exit Any signage within the station should include: Exit label, street coordinates, and the side of the street (or corner of the intersection) that...

It sounds like you're talking about two issues, which are related but still separate: Different stations that are close to each other: e.g. Copley - Back Bay, Symphony - Mass Ave, Kenmore - Lansdowne Indicating station location (My St @ Cross St) in some capacity: rapid transit map...

As a side note, some renames mentioned above could set up interesting contrasts between the Green and Orange lines stations: Court (Gov't Center) vs. State: Former sites of governmental facilities, and streets that are named after them Park St vs. Downtown Crossing: Activities supported in the...

I've largely settled on the following for my internal stuff: Chelsea Square: Anything at the actual Chelsea Square, near 2nd St / Cross St Bellingham Square: Anything around Chelsea City Hall, or the Washington Ave & Broadway intersection Chelsea Market: Today's commuter rail/SL3 station at...

(Even more) comments on specific stations You may have just tilted my preference back to "Government Center" again. The elephant in the room is that the MBTA transit map covers many cities and municipalities in the region, not just Boston. A Chelsea resident somehow mistaking "City Hall" for...

Using street names as stop names: A slightly different perspective Well, the "convention" of naming transit stations after cross streets certainly isn't unique to North America. I'm far from a worldwide transit expert, but I know that plenty of Chinese cities are also using street names. A key...

Red X alignments and walksheds: Restrictiveness of JFK/UMass I actually feel that any Red X proposal that uses JFK/UMass would inevitably have somewhat weak walksheds -- and the issue lies with the Red Line's alignment itself. JFK/UMass is on a pedestrian island. Andrew and Broadway also have...

The proposed station site is roughly halfway between the actual towns of North Andover and Ward Hill, and halfway between existing Bradford and Lawrence stations. I would prefer simply naming it "Osgood Landing" instead of either of the two municipalities. Note that the ridership figures are...

Ironically, I think "Red X to Back Bay" may be one of the cheapest options south of South End. If you run the alignment below, once you turn onto I-93, you can rise to an El (or even surface) along the uber-wide I-93 ROW, then switch to the Red Line (yard leads) once it's available: The other...

Great ideas, @The EGE! Some more specific comments: I definitely agree with this: It's worth considering subway trunks that do not necessarily go through the narrowly defined "Downtown Boston", or the Shawmut Peninsula. That's what I like the most about the Kendall-Back Bay idea -- it double...

Community College CR station IF a mega station here is feasible, I can see the great value that it would add. Proximity to Cambridge Crossing is the biggest asset here, as the CR ROW is even closer to some offices than Lechmere is. Cambridge Crossing is no Kendall and no Back Bay at the...