Recent content by Koopzilla24

The other day I saw a Type 9 on the B with a headsign reading "Express to Harvard Ave" which I have not seen displayed before. I don't know if I've conveniently never seen an express Type 9 from the outside and only been in them where the interior signs do display express

The Carlton Bridge bike channels have still not been fixed

Just got a Better Bus Project update email and this paragraph was interesting. This would suggest they never had an inventory of physical bus stops and signs before, only the # and ID of the stop itself but nothing related to the physical infrastructure. Id imagine it was on a by sight or...

I took the 34E everyday up until last fall out to Norwood and back for work because I couldn't afford the commuter rail more than a few times a month. Most of the traffic out beyond Norwood is local Norwood-Walpole rather than all the way to Boston. There was typically up to 5 people that I'd...

Aren't the complaints of idling noise and horn sounding primarily directed at the CSX yard? The MBTA yard is separated from the nearest home by 400' of other industrial buildings and trees, and those trains are typically hooked up to off-board power so that they don't idle unless they're...

This us in the technical requirements for the Red #4 and Orange #14 rolling stock so with the new digital signaling the capability is there to make it safely happen when track work is done and fixed. Full depth track replacement of various parts of the rapid transit system is in the CIP so if...

With 30min being the scheduled run time of the Fairmount under diesel power I'd assume they'd run 2 dedicated trainsets all day that only dwell at the ends long enough for boarding and alighting (and if they're ahead of schedule). Compared to currently where they sit at the ends for ~15min, this...

This is exactly what more people need to understand. The Green Line is (for the most part) just a tram and incredibly subject to human variables in speed and schedule adherence. Entire long light cycles at major intersections can be missed when an operator decides to kindly reopen doors for...

I didn't see it before but apparently the plan since 2021 has been to replace the 94 Type 5s 25 years into their life (seems short for the T) with 130 Type 6s

Transition to the what now?

The stretch from Union Sq to Harvard Ave really shouldnt have street parking with all the off street parking in the area as well as non-permit side streets. If anything, this stretch of Cambridge street should've done what Washington St in Roslindale does with peak bus lanes that have full time...

Could also be the flyover/under on approach to JFK. The split between the Ashmont and Braintree tracks happens just north of the southbound flyunder and when I last went down to Ashmont after the track work it was still a 10mph slow zone. The speed restrictions dashboard only start the Braintree...

Every picture i take is too blurry because I'm on a moving Franklin Line train but all the foundational pours are complete and the first level of the central support/elevator shaft has been poured and set. They were working on prepping for the second shaft pour this morning whilst other crews...

The has been a lot of Keolis activity going on at Norwood Central this past week. They've been stationing heavy equipment like a front loader and small truck crane there as well as having teams of hi-vis wearing personnel inspecting things and surveying. Potentially preliminary work towards...

I'd say given that the MBTA, SEPTA, Brightline, Amtrak, St. Louis Metro, SFMTA, TriRail, WMATA, Cleveland RTA, BART, TriMet, Maryland MTA, LA Metro and others I'm probably forgetting are all having rail transit vehicles orders fulfilled or working on near future procurement without long standing...