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The Orange Line averages 13 minute headways on Sundays, per transitmatters’ data. Are you sure your “experience … that the 20 minutes-ish headways on Sundays is pretty average” is accurate and not just a feeling or a very small sample size where a non-representative instance has caused you to...

I agree! Forest Hills, Alewife, and Riverside jump out at me as the most logical additions.

All else equal, I’d choose A. Transit expansion happens on a timescale much larger than human movement. Let’s look at our most recent rapid transit expansion in the region: the Green Line Extension. What percentage of residents who lived there when it broke ground (2012) were still there when...

No lip service to tunnel under C-Branch as one of the alternatives?

Good start to the analysis! Point of revision: I would argue that for your list to be "fairly exhaustive," it should include at least the following three: Audubon Circle Washington Square Cleveland Circle Revising your map and analysis would illuminate another routing possibility.

I 100% agree with this, unfortunately. CSU Tropical Weather and Climate Research is the leading body for predicting and measuring Atlantic Hurricane Seasons. Their predictions are well-respected and followed closely. They recently released their 2024 forecast and it is their highest prediction...

@eber nailed it. NWS data. Worth noting that the recent crests don’t have (at least) the three most recent instances of flood stage. Also worth noting that Boston Harbor briefly entered flood stage last night (for about a half hour and only by a few inches). For more recent data, it is visible...

Boston Harbor entered minor flood stage for an hour last night, so you can add that on to the total.

Crossposting here: Boston Harbor was in minor flood stage (12.5-14 ft tidal height) for two hours this morning, from about 7:00 to 9:00, peaking at 13.33 ft. For perspective, this was the 29th highest crest recorded in Boston Harbor history. While not unprecedented, this level of flooding is...

Boston Harbor was in minor flood stage (12.5-14 ft tidal height) for two hours this morning, from about 7:00 to 9:00, peaking at 13.33 ft. For perspective, this was the 29th highest crest recorded in Boston Harbor history. While not unprecedented, this level of flooding is notable and not...

5 of their 17 regular season home games this year are before May 18, when the average high in Everett is 63F. While it’s often chilly for the first few games, most home games will be played in warm weather, not unlike the Red Sox. I could see an Everett-based Revolution averaging 15,000/game...

10-12 inches (which is a lot), according to NOAA, for those who may not be up-to-date on the latest reports. For perspective, this is equal to the rise measured over the last 100 years.

On Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh <> Philadelphia is a corridor that is extremely underserved by rail. There is only one daily round trip. It takes 5.5 between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg (a 3.5 hour drive). In some ways, it's a similar situation to the Springfield <> Boston corridor. Pittsburgh is...

I decided to go ahead and do some research. This doesn’t appear too different than Massachusetts as a whole. 2019-‘22 saw a 3.7% decline in enrollment in Massachusetts public schools. That drop was most acute among 5th-7th graders. This is entirely unsurprising as from 2008 to 2010 the...

How does the Barnstable County public school enrollment decline compare to the State of Massachusetts as a whole, proportionally? I know that Massachusetts has had fewer than 70,000 births each of the past six years for the first time in living memory, so I imagine public school Enrollment...

Yep! I totally agree. I was looking for somebody with a more buttoned-up calculation and you provided it. I appreciate it. Thanks.

Thanks! It appears your table assumes about a 10-15 minute more efficient base-line round trip than mine does. Easily explainable with the current slow zones.

I may be out of the loop here. There were 120 Hawker-Siddeley 01200s, right? Isn't this a six car shortage? Or is it considered an eight car shortage because of the 1400/1401 derailment pair? Either way, we'll be two cars shy of 19 Orange Line trains, which feels like a big milestone. How many...

Apologies for the double post. I was researching these numbers and found some things that I think are quite notable: If the Red Line adheres to this schedule, it will be more frequent (more round trips) on weekdays than any day since March 8, 2023, the day before the Great Slow Zone Reckoning...

Right. Passengers, human-hours, capacity, etc. A loss of six bus trips and a gain of six train trips is a net increase for transit ridership capacity. A loss of six bus trips and a gain of 382 train trips is an astronomical victory in terms of transit ridership capacity. In a perfect world...