Are they running them with reduced crews? (i.e. no conductors?) Like, is there any nominal justification to be had here? Reduced cost from staffing stations or something? I feel like a bad railfan but I somehow had missed that they were still running trains, all this time...
Side note: any ops ideas on why it's such a long stretch? I assume all of downtown is closed for material loading in and out, but is it really that hard to close only south of Community? Is Community low enough ridership on weekends that it doesn't matter?
Side note: any ops ideas on why it's such a long stretch? I assume all of downtown is closed for material loading in and out, but is it really that hard to close only south of Community? Is Community low enough ridership on weekends that it doesn't matter?
Wrong railing from Wellington to Sullivan is what they do. Trains can't cross over at Community, because the truck pad is between Community and Sullivan. Workers need the truck pad to move equipment and materials onto the ROW.
Hynes Station
Scope: MassDOT has designated a private developer to construct an air rights development over Hynes Station and the MassPike I-90 at the northeast corner of Boylston St. and Massachusetts Ave. The design will provide a renovated and fully accessible station with a reopened Boylston St. entrance incorporated into the new air rights development.
Update: The MBTA is meeting with the developer on a biweekly basis to define the station’s external dimensions, structural constraints, and utility upgrades. A design consultant began working in March 2020 and the conceptual design is expected to be complete by December 2020. Full design is expected to be complete in June 2022 and it is expected that construction will be complete in December 2025.
Yes, that's consistent with how the project has been handled all along. Any time there is a shut down of Orange sections, the parallel green line stations have open fare gates."Fare gates open" is a much better policy than "find someone to give you a piece of paper"
Is that how they've been doing these all? So progressive!
Looks like they're doing some platform repair at North Station. Tile replacement?View attachment 8607View attachment 8608
The platform tiles started cracking within weeks of the station opening. The upper level Green Line platform, in particular, gets a lot of vibration from the trolley traffic. The rigid tile was never a good surfacing idea for a platform that vibrates that much.That's some baaad spalling for a station that's only 15+ years old.
The platform tiles started cracking within weeks of the station opening. The upper level Green Line platform, in particular, gets a lot of vibration from the trolley traffic. The rigid tile was never a good surfacing idea for a platform that vibrates that much.
Looks like they're doing some platform repair at North Station. Tile replacement?
Straight from the T:I think Datadyne said that they were going with a terrazzo surface instead of tiles.