Massachoicetts
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I feel Boston missed a huge opportunity while ridership was down to fix the T...
I would like to hear more about what fixes you'd like to have seen.I feel Boston missed a huge opportunity while ridership was down to fix the T...
- Track work, harbor tunnel repairs, and additional infrastructure improvements successfully accomplished during a 14-day shutdown of the Blue Line from Bowdoin to Airport in May 2020;
- Tie replacement work, concrete repairs, Quincy Adams elevator work, track replacement, and bridge inspection work during a 14-day shutdown of the Red Line from Braintree to Quincy Center in June 2020;
- Track and signal replacement work during 2 9-day shutdowns of the Green Line D Branch from Kenmore to Riverside, which successfully took place in June 2020;
- Infrastructure work in the area known as the Beacon Junction during a 9-day shutdown of the C Branch from Kenmore to St. Mary’s in June 2020.
Anyone know if any progress has been made (or will be underway) for the Highspeed Line? They shopped the transformation of it, but, so far it seems like they only (somewhat half-assedly) fixed the Central Ave crossing. No promised signaling or gates, though. Anyone know if there is movement on the PCC rebuilds, or any of the proposed Ashmont Station improvements or anything else? I think one of the bigger pieces of feedback was sycnronization between the trolley and red line, which they said they would look into. Seems pretty radio silence since then, though.
The 2 PCC's that have been out-of-service since 2012 are at Everett for overhaul. Body work done in-house, Brookville (small U.S. modern & 'faux'-heritage streetcar builder) does the electrical in 2 phases around both ends of the body work with techs dispatched to Everett to install kits.
Brookville's deadlines for pilot cars are sandwiched around the in-house body work. Last update was many months ago but they apparently did come in last year for the first-phase work. Which probably means the body work is what's running late. Being at Everett they're using regular garage bays, so COVID staffing levels on # of adjacent bays allowed under active repair + COVID-expedited bus repairs while reduced fleet usage allowed for more shop TLC most likely backburnered the body work temporarily. Don't think Brookville's been on-call yet this year because of that, but even if they were the techs would be having trouble with the travel restrictions between here and Brookville HQ outside of Pittsburgh.
Fair enough. I vaguely remember the PCC rebuilds supposed to be complete this year (this summer?), but guessing that is going to slip into 2021.
In general, do we care that the T has RFIs out for
"dedicated rail, self-propelled, ... Crane Cars" for the Red, Orange, and Blue lines, and OCS cars for the Green and Blue Lines? Notably, the RFIs reject any hiRail options, which I would assume would be better for both Off The Shelf-ness and operational flexibility?
That said, I suppose it's a good thing that the T is looking to expand and refresh it's MoW capabilities.
This is kind of silly, but does anyone know a good way to get Google to correct their transit line routings? I had submitted one request almost a year ago but nothing's come of it.
Could you link to that tool that you like?May not be a big deal since the MBTA's website has a mapping tool which appears to have the correct drawing.
Could you link to that tool that you like?
Yeah I swear the lines the MBTA uses on their website are published in their GTFS feed, a data format literally designed by Google, yet for some reason they draw their own routes instead...Google has always been terrible about this. Kind of stupid, since the data is easily available and they have the railroads depicted accurately. I can't find it now, but I saw a blog post once from the makers of the Transit app about how they went to some effort to do this right.
I wonder if it is a copyright issue? Maybe transit apps get to use the MBTA data, but not Google?Yeah I swear the lines the MBTA uses on their website are published in their GTFS feed, a data format literally designed by Google, yet for some reason they draw their own routes instead...