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Compared to the so many other issues, this is a nice story. A café by Shawmut station that sounds like it's a nice café. The land is own by the Epiphany School that happen to have a kiosk available after being built for an entirely different purpose. The MBTA should be doing more to lease spots...

But, doesn’t Bakgwailo implies the Orange Line will be 4 years late, assuming no more delays?

I would normally link a news article, but I can't find any. The newest one I can find is WHDH's report that the GLX track work might get extended again. So here's the reddit thread that reports it by connecting 2 and 2 together - If it only extends to January, then it still won't feel too bad...

While I'm surprised all the necessary pieces weren't already set in the shadows, I still imagine a billionaire has "more effective" ways to still get his end result than punch back with a blunt lawsuit.

I want to quote this because he sure fooled me. I operate on the mindset "aim for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land in the stars" or some similar phrase. He did made a big stink that he is working to improve the T post-that-certain-winter. I figured even if he fails, certainly it will be...

IRRC, CLF was also the entity that made GLX happened. But yeah, that was also decades ago. CLF using its influence to stop a stadium because the husband to the chair of the board is the president of the company that handles tickets to the other stadiums means CLF has lost its way. I don't have...

To clarify what I meant, though especially with the use of the quote, I can see it can be reasonably interpreted to not bother talking about any projects beyond an X years horizon. That line is meant more that how TransitMatter report came out in August, which is not too long ago, but usually...

At this point, we should be doing projects in parallel rather than one-project-at-a-time with 1 station or 5 station extension it all take a decade each. Given the state of the Red Line to his city, he doesn't care about the Red Line either. This guy got a point. Why are we talking about this...

I have to point this one out. If I'm reading this correctly, the North Station to Lechmere is likely that slow zone on the viaduct. One spot I know a lot of us on this board have noticed a lot. If that's the one, it would be kinda fitting if it becomes one of the last slow zones they will fix...

I have to personally speculate that when (or I guess if) all the slow zone gets repaired, it's probably a lot easier to keep up if one immediately address the issue when initially detected (with wiling and active effort to detect them). The slow zones we see now (and hopefully we actually...

If the slow zones doesn't come back. I think the big difference between the Red Line shut down versus the Orange Line is planning. The Orange Line did a month long shutdown, but it seems it was only decided roughly a month ahead. The Northern portion was planned for months before it was...

Charlie in thread specifically about Red-Blue states it would happen if/when it gets support from the Feds. Thus the most likely scenario is a through a Federal transportation grant. Which means where the political wind blow in the next year or so will be critical. Right now the winds are still...

Back at the roughly the start of the Barker administration, it was discovered GLX was projecting to go overbudget by 20%. Here in the forums, I remember us noticing how each part of the project are all costing 20% more than it should - imply contractor overcharge. > Baker order a freeze on GLX...

New MBTA podcast is out. Some of the lines I do find a bit less anodyne than before.

If any problems are getting addressed, it's because the issues affect their main site and just happen to be on the same boat to receive it. Checking their website, it seems they have merge the other cities into their website. Hopefully we're still sharing the same backend and thus still...

@king_vibe - At the risk that responding to you will get this thread locked, just shitting on stuff and then double down with an even lower effort post does not contribute to the conversation. And to be clear, hopefully including the mods, I'm genuinely trying to explain with good faith in my...

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/10/06/we-got-a-copy-of-the-samizdat-mbta-podcast-listen-here On r/boston, there was a bit of a commotion after a podcast from the MBTA getting taken down like almost immediately upon release. Streetsblog manage to find someone who manage to download a copy...

Doesn't that implies we have data that demonstratively shows the drivers are ignoring orders? If so, it's hard for me to feel angry since nobody is hurt and it even as laymen some of us are speculating they are unreasonably err-ing to caution. At the same time, it is concerning as it also...

In that 8 years, I would say they also did do a "good" job of doing a whole dog and pony show while continuing or possible even accelerating the hole digging. I mean I fell for it - hard. I'm the guy that wrote up the thread "MBTA 2021 - The year the MBTA stop sucking?" and omg I can't believe I...

Accordingly to the website. The three longest slow zones are 1. Westbound (Inbound) between Tufts and Ball Sq for 1,200 ft (.23 miles) 2. Westbound (Inbound) between Gilman and East Somerville for 800 ft (.15 miles) 3. Eastbound (Outbound) between Ball Sq and Tufts for 800 ft (.15 miles) So...