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Who could’ve guessed that business soars when you give cheap(er) and easier ways to get somewhere.New Bedford Whaling Museum visits are soaring. MBTA commuter rail may be a factor.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum has achieved its highest visitor numbers in over a decade, driven by expanded public transit and outreach efforts.www.southcoasttoday.com
New Bedford Whaling Museum visits are soaring. MBTA commuter rail may be a factor.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum has achieved its highest visitor numbers in over a decade, driven by expanded public transit and outreach efforts.www.southcoasttoday.com
I always felt like NB could be the Mass version of Portland, Maine, but whenever I go there, the downtown can be rather dead. I hope that changes.
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Awfully poorly proofread article by ABC6. Here's the full press release: https://news.keolisna.com/mbta-and-keolis-announce-commuter-rail-schedule-adjustmentsMBTA announces changes to Fall River/New Bedford and Providence/Stoughton rail lines | ABC6
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — The MBTA and Keolis Commuter Services said that updated schedules for the Fall River/New Bedford and Providence/Stoughton rail lines would go into effect on July 21. On the Fall River/New Bedford Line, midday and evening trains will no longer stop at JFK/UMass, and...
I'm curious where the capacity for a new 9:43am Greenbush inbound is coming from. (Just looked at the schedules and it's not a new trip at all, just a shift of an existing trip)
There's a study scheduled (I think now with CIP funds) to ballpark what it would entail for work and what it would cost, but that was only originally proposed by the T in 2022 and I don't think the study has actually started yet because the CIP funds were very recent. The price tag for the final project is definitely going to be scary...on the order of $1B+...so I'd expect we're still going to be talking about it 10 years from now. But they've at least duly acknowledged that the Old Colony lines can't participate in Regional Rail scheduling at all without it, and the ongoing disaster that's been South Coast Rail's service start certainly ups the urgency to keep talking and planning about it.
How much of Quincy do you think can get away with single track? It seems to me there's space to do double track south of Adams Street with very minimal takings *if* the redevelopments being planned at Star Market and the Granite Place plaza take it in mind.
That wouldn't be much of a cost-saver for the project, because you'd still have to nuke/rebuild the Savin Hill Ave. overpass and re-space all the tracks to fit the expanded Old Colony in the middle. Plus it's only a small amount of the total single-tracking that actually goes next to the highway. You still have to deal with the single-track from Columbia Jct. to Southampton Yard, JFK Station, south of Savin Hill to Victory Rd., and Newport Ave. in Quincy to Braintree Yard.
At the very least this part isnt that big of a deal besides the single-seat convenience (though first-hand experience tells me a decent amount of South Shore nurses will switch to driving cause they refuse to use the subway or MBTA buses). The JFK-South Station transit time is about par between commuter rail and red line due to the slow South Station approach on CR, and the Quincy-JFK-South Station time is only about 5 additional minutes on the red line
It depends how many trains you want to get through.
You need 12 TPH to give all 3 Old Colony branches :30 bi-directional service, so in all likelihood it's got to be complete double tracking. And as long as South Coast Rail is attached you can't assume precise-enough meets to stage it all on segments of remaining single-track, so it's got to be complete DT where trains in each direction can just follow one after the other.
No. You want the 3 OC branches to be able to participate in :30 Regional Rail scheduling in any universe, so that needs to be done--painful as it'll be--as an outright priority. Otherwise you're going to have a pronounced stratification of haves and have nots on the Purple Line system when Regional Rail pumps :30 clock-facing frequencies nearly everywhere else and the OC trio remains hourly-at-best with very irregular/gapped-out arrivals and departures. The South Shore is much too dense and traffic-clogged to consign them to that second-class fate.
