Not sure what this project is but it is located across the street from the JP Senior Center on Maverick Street.
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I wonder if that's part of the future Intermodal Transportation center.
Less capital topic but the board approved the TNC proposal but modified it to weaken it. Fees are going to stay at $3.25 but will apply to both pickups and dropoffs, previously only applied to pickups. TNCs pickup/dropoff will move to central garage in October but will continue curbside drop offs pre-10am when congestion isn't as bad. The initial reaction on Twitter is bad, TNC users are pissed, and Uber and Lyft have been sending them emails encouraging them to get mad about it and contact state reps. Its a shame people never see the bigger picture...
If your flight lands at Logan after 1am, what are you supposed to do to get where you're going?
As for congestion, does anybody believe that congestion is worse between 1am and 4am than it is between 7am and 10am? Why are restrictions relaxed in the latter but not in the former.
You're supposed to walk the 5 minutes to central garage to get your rideshare. Not that difficult to do. Seriously.
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Thats what Massport wants, stop pushing your taxi conspiracies.
Also the last Silver Line trip is 2:30am so catch the Silver Line.
Pickups cause the most congestion. Period. Nighttime is a big pickup time, thereby its always a big congestion time. Dropoffs take a fraction of the time that pickups do. 4am to 10am is a big dropoff time.
If walking to the central garage is so easy, why is it only required for Uber/Lyft but not for private vehicles/taxis?
And if you're referring to the roads outside of the airport and not the airport itself, pickups and dropoffs look the same.
I personally believe there should be a fee for all pickup/dropoff at logan and more/all cars should be moved to central to free up the terminals for buses. Yep 100% I would support that.
If walking to the central garage is so easy, why is it only required for Uber/Lyft but not for private vehicles/taxis?
The last "typical" inbound SL from the airport is around 12:35. A handfull of busses run at times later than that but they don't connect to the rest of the system, which isn't running past 1ish. An SL bus that doesn't connect to the rest of the system (which is shut down) is of little very little help. I landed at Logan a bit past 1am just a few weeks ago and tried to take the SL, but there weren't any busses running to South Station.
I simply do not believe that Uber/Lyft pickup congestion between, say, 1am and 4am is a problem that needs to be addressed. Go the terminal curbside at 2am and look for congestion. It doesn't exist.
And if you're referring to the roads outside of the airport and not the airport itself, pickups and dropoffs look the same.
What buses? Massport has already eliminated the individual rental car shuttles and will ultimately spend hundreds of millions to replace their own with a train. Other than that, you have Logan Express and other intercity buses, but there aren't enough of those to use all the curb space, and hotel shuttles, which are arguably less efficient than private cars since they are far less fuel efficient any may not carry more than a couple of people per trip...
At some point, the curb is empty.
Not sure what it is, but I'm pretty sure it isn't that. Massport is still in the initial evaluation of the APM and they weren't even sure the ITC would happen at all.
Wildly overstated. And a long time off.
The proposed people mover will not eliminate all the Massport busses, because it won't connect to all the remote parking options. Silver line still will need every curb. Regional busses take up a ton of space, and there are a lot of them (which is a good thing, but needs to be accomodated). Force visitors to rent cars rather than use hotel shuttles? Really?
Hardly "empty" curbs.
The game of sending TNCs to a specific lot before they can accept a hail and then they have to drive to the pickup location is a big part of the current problem. Keep the cars moving:
Step 1) Drop off passenger at terminal X departure.
Step 2) Start driving and immediately pair with a pickup at terminal Y arrival. It takes just one lap of the airport ring to get there.
Curb side space is at a premium now that Logan's exceeded 40,000,000 passengers handled annually, and it's due to worsen in coming months with the approved capital improvements. This is a great mitigation strategy.