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Well leaders it was a chicken and egg try. The egg laid was tried with limited stops however the chickens did not show up to ride. The farmers are doing better overall, an additional 400 passengers each day, but they're getting less efficient at ridership. Using the numbers from article, ridership ...

You could raise an embankment, put the passenger trains on it, build an elevated station. Leave at least one track at-grade for freight. Would need at least two station tracks and a bypass track. Or maybe quad-track with all tracks accessible to the station. Maybe 100s of millions instead of billio...

In the not too distant past, folks in Framingham strongly voiced that they would like to see a tunnel before any high speed rail traffic happens. And I'm sure if you asked them they probably would love to see all the north south freight activity go some place else as well. There is no question that...

I'm hopeful that the DOT corridor planners will recognize that the best $/rider gains will be made on the Worcester/Boston segment and program funds to fixing existing issues that will only be made worse by increasing the frequency of trains on the line(eg downtown Framingham, South Station congesti...

Wrongly added to the GP40MC thread - are 010/011 ever returning? I'll check in again, but last I was told, was the T doesn't want them back. Tried to get rid of them, and no one bought them Yeesh, they didn't even last 15 years! When they were new, they were a big upgrade in reliability over the co...

How do the number of Commuter Rail passengers compare with the number of automobiles on the Mass Pike? Mass Pike takes six lanes total in most of this area, the Worcester Line takes about the equivalent of two lanes I find myself agreeing with Komorovsky. Daily boardings for 2018 were ~11k people t...

As this project has gone on, I've gotten cooler and cooler on it, and the renaming isn't helping. The cost to do this work between Worcester and Springfield, which estimated to save 29 minutes of travel time, is about double the cost for the Worcester to Boston work, which was estimated to save 22 m...

Two senior GLX team members have been fired because of their involvement with this hilariously awful dumpster fire. https://www.wcvb.com/article/mbta-senior-leaders-green-line-extension-project-fired-5-investigates/45589163# I appreciate that GM Eng is demonstrating that there's no tolerance for fra...

My potentially hot take is yes. If you're commuting from Auburndale to Fenway, Back Bay or even DTX, the commuter rail will be at least 20 min faster than taking the green line from Riverside. Yes CR is more expensive, but the 2020 median income for all the census tracks in that part of newton is >$...

The real opportunity to redo the Newton stations would be to both add high levels that allow for bi-directional service, and to take a clean sheet approach to their locations. West Newton is an absolute dumpster fire of a location and should be removed (I know, that's a live wire that'll never get t...

No disagreement here. The existing infrastructure on the line corresponds to demand 30 years ago, not the demand from 5 years ago and even not the demand now. There's some hope, Natick got it's new station after all, but there's historically been at turns ambivalence and opposition to improvements i...

Isn't the "128 station" in that location effectively Riverside/Waban? The design frequency of service makes it much more appropriate than CR for the catchment. In my "ideal" world the Newton CR stops would get the axe and be replaced with improved BRT/Express Bus service, grantin...

As a former rider of the original heart to hub(before the added Framingham stop), and before that a rider of 508/523 I have so many mixed feelings about the loss of the current incarnation of heart to hub. I said many times, both in person, on this forum, Worcester City Govt and MBTA CR management p...

>Signal priority on Beacon St (do they have that now or not?). The MBTA wanted it, but seems to have given up on going through with it. I think there was (and might still be) one intersection where the green line has priority on Beacon where they trialed it and collected data. This is the lowest ha...

it's 1:38 pm, off peak. Mr Google shows from Terminal C to the Coolidge Corner Theatre 27min for 9.6miles by car, 56min by public transit. So ~20MPH by car and ~10MPH average by bus/trolley. Pretty pathetic. At rush hour public transportation should be faster than automobile! Your trip, 1.5 hours /...