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Mass. Senate budget looks to invest $250M into transportation fund, source says: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/mass-senate-budget-looks-to-invest-250m-into-transportation-fund-source-says/ar-BB1lYeaA?ocid=socialshare&pc=SMTS&cvid=6d6aef4b69e1480dad7ec4b2f353df5f&ei=31

To be fair, I think a new extension (even just by 1-2 stops) will need to go through a lot more processes than replacing infrastructure on an existing route.

That's not how it works though. From the OMNY fare capping explanations: So if you visit NYC on Wednesday, May 8 and tap for the first time on that day, the 12-trip fare cap period lasts until Tuesday, May 14. If your next tap after the period is on May 18, it starts a new 7-day period that...

Let's also not forget that allowing riders of the Green Line (at surface stops) and buses to pay from the back of the vehicles is likely to provide a huge boost in revenue.

FYI, "XXX Loop" isn't without precedent in Boston either: The 36 bus has a stop that's officially named "Charles River Loop".

I got the same newsletter as @Koopzilla24, and a few of the bus priority updates sound very interesting: In February, Mayor Michelle Wu and GM Eng announced plans to redesign Blue Hill Avenue between Warren Street and Mattapan Station as a new multimodal corridor. The project will add a...

This data was produced using US Census OnTheMap, a rather specialized but easy-to-use interactive tool with employment data. Its most unique feature, one that I didn't use in the analysis above, is that it shows origin-destination employment data. For example, here's the distribution of workers...

Welcome to archBoston, @Hooledeli! I'll respond to the overall discussion on heavy rail conversion of GL later (I'm putting my thoughts in a blogpost, and I hope it won't disappoint). But I want to address one point quickly: Strong disagree. I analyzed job numbers in various employment...

The title looks like it's straight out of The Onion:

The E in 34E stands for East Walpole. That was its original terminus before the extension to Walpole Center: I do think it would have been much nicer if the former 616 route was renamed 34W upon the MBTA transfer, which can also stand for East Walpole, especially since no other MBTA bus...

The 101 bus in the Bus Network Redesign does this exact thing you mentioned:

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/04/26/mbta-says-it-cant-do-a-fare-free-no-1-bus-route-cambridge-staff-says-it-might-be-fundable-in-2026/

MBTA 2023 systemwide passenger survey is now live! Interactive tool: https://mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/apps/61aa97a6a4a64a179bc44df3ae75b6f3/explore Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in the full spreadsheet, where no entries have any numerical data.

BEMUs probably don't need track upgrades (as mentioned in the description), though? Unless that item is just an umbrella term for generic improvements, which remains a possibility.