by bgl
I cannot figure out how to edit my previous post, but as of this morning (and last night), Cedar Grove at least is not yet active.
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Steve Annear, Boston Globe wrote:
Now arriving on the Mattapan trolley line: real-time countdown clocks
Passengers who rely on the aging Mattapan High Speed Line for their daily commute will no longer need to stand idly along the tracks and wonder with extreme patience whether their ride is on its way.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced Monday that all of the trolleys, which date back to the 1940s, have been outfitted with on-board tracking technology, allowing riders to pinpoint their precise location using smartphone apps.
And by later this month, the MBTA plans to turn on digital countdown clocks at seven of the Mattapan line's eight stops, displaying vehicle arrival times. Three of the signs are already up and running.
skyqrose wrote:I wrote a thing about replacing the MHSL with a Red Line extension. It borrows a lot of ideas from this discussion, but fleshes everything out a bit more and gets all the ideas in one place.Most of what you've got in there completely nailed it. Awesome work! You really should see if you could get the attention of TransitMatters with that to see if it can get published in wider circulation. That's exactly the sort of thinkpiece Commonwealth Magazine likes to publish when they deep-dive into transit issues or partner up with TransitMatters for an op-ed about transpo best practices.
I'd love to get responses from all of you, especially regarding cost estimates.
https://medium.com/@skyqrose/red-line-e ... 7351aa782e
CRail wrote:The locals do not want consolidated stops nor heavy rail headways.Do the locals realize that heavy rail would actually reduce their total trip time to Boston, even with the worst case extra wait time for heavy rail headways? (At least according to skyqrose's data)
typesix wrote:Plus a real snowplow to replace the Type 3 would be nice."Snowzilla" seems to be doing the job just fine on the HSL now that 2015 taught them to not slack off on keeping the work roster ready for winter. Used to be that the jet snowblowers were inoperable half the time because of poor maintenance attention, so their availability was perennially spotty whevever it did snow. But when they work...boy do they ever work. Well enough that you don't need a dedicated traction-powered plow trolley for the HSL. Now that '15 has chastened them to maintain the jet blowers like their lives depended on it, there's enough "Snowzilla" bandwidth available to fully take care of the HSL's needs without needing a dedicated trolley plow replacement for the retired Type 3's.