MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

Re: I-93 bus lane:
Concord Coach has hourlies from Maine & NH

Shoulder lane might allow Logan Express to go to half hourly.

I’d also like to see half hourlies in-filling for CR to Anderson to North Station and tagging to South Station.
 
millerm277 said:
The article doesn't mention them being able to use the shoulder. I'd certainly hope they'll be allowed, though.
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I'd hope so too. there's a fair amount of regional buses that allow suburban and exurban commuters to avoid driving.

From the random 3rd "page" of the PDF version of the T System Map
Source: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/08-29-2021-mbta-system-brochure.pdf

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RandomWalk said:
With all the commentary in this thread and the I-90 Allston thread, I’m waiting F-Line to bust in like the Kool-Aid Man and drop a 3,000 word post eviscerating many of the pitches.
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Yeah, where the hell is F-Line, anyway? I haven't seem him posting in a couple of months. Hope everything is okay.
 
Globe article about center bus lanes https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10...ng-boston-this-weekend-heres-what-that-means/

I'm curious why Seaver St wasnt included in the Columbus Ave bus project — Seaver is much worse of a drag strip than Columbus. It's the obvious next step, yet from this article (and content on this thread) it seems like the state isn't really even planning that as a next project, but rather only thinking about Blue Hill Ave?
 
By the way, WBUR is reporting that the T will be proceeding with the bus network redesign, so that as service recovers post-Covid it will come back changed to reflect both the “point to point” and “underserved communities” focus of redesign and the effects of Covid. I’d link, except that that’s basically the whole article.

Changes get a phased rollout 2022 to 2026
 
So wild that they could build all that in less than 2 years. I see the stuff going on in San Fran take a decade or two and even Indianapolis took 5.
 
as02143 said:
So wild that they could build all that in less than 2 years. I see the stuff going on in San Fran take a decade or two and even Indianapolis took 5.
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Barely over one year - constructed started October 23, 2020. It helps that subsurface work was largely limited to the platform locations. A lot of BRT projects are basically utility replacement projects with some transit work on top, which is where the actual cost and time go. That's very true for both SF projects. Geary Rapid (phase 1 of Geary BRT) just wrapped up on time/on budget after several years of construction; Van Ness BRT is a never-ending shitshow because there are hundreds of unmapped utilities that haven't been touched since 1956.
 
It would be an enormous boon to construction of every sort if MassDot conducted an organized "utility census" every year/two years that would produce up-to-date underground maps of every street in every community with >some number of people. The fact that every project, transit or otherwise, has to conduct its' own piecemeal survey of its' own tiny corner of the streetscape adds unnecessary time and expense to projects all over the commonwealth, and especially in the Greater Boston area.
 
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