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I can say that I flew BOS-AMS on KLM in late January, and the load factors were pretty terrible. As in, I got the economy version of first-class in both directions....the entire row to myself to stretch out and sleep on. And so did many of the other people in economy. So I can see why there...

You planning on elaborating on your thought, or just leaving us to guess what you're trying to say?

I will point out that scrolling down on the page, the MBTA clearly lists the Mattapan Line as a separate thing.

Kind of funny to see this "upbeat" post about 2025 passenger counts, then look up at the post before it, from 12 years earlier, that was targeting 300,000 passengers....by 2015, which still hasn't been hit.

I haven't been through that often, but my impressions (+ from having rechecked my memory with Street View): Signage sucks or is completely non-existent besides the markings on the road....which are usually completely covered up with other cars. A good number of people sitting in a car in that...

Seems a little bit odd to rebuild the 69kV line for 115kV standards ("for future needs") but to say they're going to continue to operate it as a 69kV line for the foreseeable future. Is that just so they don't have to rework the substations as well (yet)?

Because making large mistakes or intentionally lying/misleading torpedoes their credibility and greatly reduces how seriously anything they have to say will be taken in the future, perhaps? You can find plenty of outlets that have taken that path and gone from being taken seriously to ignored...

(Not accusing you of anything, just the Globe). I do not understand why this is much of a news story, and the framing/headline further makes it sound mildly suspicious when it doesn't appear to be. The state paying 30% over assessed value seems perfectly reasonable both in terms of not harming...

Only major E/W route in that region of the metro area besides 16, and the commercial/industrial along some of this area seems to generate a decent volume of heavy truck trips. Not sure if narrower streets are ideal if you're expecting heavy truck trips to be on the corridor regardless.

Even cheaper than that. Post Office Sq is $10 nights + weekends, and is a very nice facility. I'll also add one more voice to the chorus of frequency + price (when with other people). Boston's traffic isn't that bad outside work commute hours/direction (unlike how NYC can be), which only...

It's about 150ft if you're standing directly in line with the northern platform, not 1000ft. Anyway, reason seems obvious: The natural slope of the road in that direction basically acts as a ramp anyway, and so I doubt the distance traveled is significantly longer than it would have been if you...

Right, I'm just pointing out that upgrading the B Branch, with whatever infrastructure upgrades are required to achieve both accessibility and supporting 2-car Type 10 trains, will require both of those projects + their costs. So our point of comparison is more like $311m for the whole branch...

Seems hard to fully assess without having any clue what they're doing for this price. Which is itself a problem.... With the E project, I assume you're talking full street reconstruction including 6(?) signalized intersections, installation of a signal system for the trains, and probably...

NETransit has this note: "01500s and 01700s were built as self-contained units, but in practice are now configured and operated as pairs. 01500s were built with double-ended cabs, but rebuilt to single-ended." They seem to be kept together as married pairs typically. Beyond that - What would...

Canada hasn't brought a new reactor online in 43 years. I'll believe they can do it efficiently when I see it actually happen. Currently they have one project in construction. France - Their most recent reactor project came in 12 years late and nearly 4x the original budget. I can't think of a...

It's been shut down for 7 years, old BWR designs seem to not be particularly well-regarded on the safety front, and it seemed to be a lightning rod for accusations of safety problems when it was operating - more so than most of the other plants in the region. I think it's unlikely anyone is...

Nice post, I'll just add that it seems worth noting that real-time pricing has been largely negative today from 10:30 till now (15:00).

Also, there are times where this helps capacity (or your own personal cost vs convenience calculus). Might not be too common outside of holiday periods, but trains sometimes do sell out for certain segments, and sometimes when they're highly sold but not sold out you get very different costs for...

While I agree that the "racism" argument is ridiculous, I also find it somewhat difficult to believe that these neighborhoods are really consistently electing politicians that hold views wildly out of step with their electorate. -------- It seems worth pointing out that Dorchester + Mattapan...

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with your opinion about the risk of an accident that spills into the tracks existing - the fence collapse from the snow pile makes that pretty obviously real. I just doubt that there's some regulation that says you can't use heavy equipment fully on your own property...