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"Shuttle buses replacing Blue Line service between Wonderland and Orient Heights Stations due to police action" Affected stops: Wonderland Revere Beach Beachmont Suffolk Downs Orient Heights There was a brawl at Revere Beach,which resulted in this. ttps://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06...

The Downeaster Facebook page has announced that the Great Dome will return for 2017 operating in the last summer, and early fall.

From the posting.

Amtrak’s Great Dome rail car is returning to Maine between August 19 and September 24, 2017. More details coming soon!

Ken

Next weekend (6/17/18), the Blue, Red, and Orange lines will all be on a weekday schedule to deal with the crowds expected for the Boston Sail event. Saturday will feature the parade of boats on Boston Harbor, and Homeland Security is now more involved in the execution of the event due to the recent...

My point being is that it is encouraging to see the loop back in service, and the fact that a test trolley was parked on it shows just that, that the T is testing it. The issue of B branch trolleys serving GC has to do with providing more headway during the peak periods, the morning peak in particul...

On my commute home last evening I noticed that the loop at Government Center has been restored, and a single trolley with TEST TRAIN on it's destination board was
parked at the west end of the loop.

Perhaps with this we can get some B branch cars to serve GC, in particular during peak hours.

Ken

But then when you factor in commuter rail, Boston's is a joke compared to Philly's system, so Philly comes out ahead there. Boston's downtown is probably at least as dense as Philly's but is a lot smaller in area. Boston is much harder to drive around than Philly so that might give transit a leg up...

As posted the lake Shore has a limited menu due to it's lack of a full kitchen, the menu is more complete than the Cardinal, or the lowest of low, The City of New Orleans. https://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/1/7/Lake-Shore-Limited-Dining-Car-Menu-0517.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return f...

NNEPRA is aware of the schedule issue. The basic decision was to focus the schedule so that every evening event would have a train permitting full attendance at the event and travel back to Maine. Fenway Park crowds are one example. Late concert crowds at the TD Garden are the other. The previous s...

There are those of us who have been using the Downeaster less these days due to the current weekend schedule where by the first train does not leave Boston until 10:20 am, as opposed to the weekday schedule of 9:05 am, and the previous weekend schedule where it left at 9:20 am. The hour later depart...

Another story about upcoming Amtrak work around Penn Station and the Tunnels. This could have a major impact on Amtrak NEC schedules all summer long. NJ Transit has options (like diverting trains to Hoboken, and/or turning trains at Newark Penn), that Amtrak does not. http://www.philly.com/philly/bu...

As Red Wing said, there's a lot of work that you simply cannot do overnight. The last revenue train leaves downtown after 1am - and sometimes as late as 2am if the last-train connection is delayed - and the first inbound train is in the tunnel before 5:30am the next day. Including transportation ti...

Blue Line Bustitutions between Airport and Government Center all this weekend (18/19) and scheduled for next weekend as well, due to tunnel and track work. Work that should be scheduled for overnight hours, NO EXCUSES . All day on Saturday we had jammed packed busses, tourists trying to being luggag...

Sad to see the new schedule, in particular, the new weekend schedule, having the first train now leave Boston at 10:20, renders the train useless for a regular Saturday day trips to Portland. Getting to Portland close to an extra hour later does not work. Our usual pattern is taking the that 1st tra...

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If a hope for the added service is to bring more Boston holiday shoppers to Freeport, then NNEPRA will have to do some advertising down here, since potential Massachusetts customers don't read the Maine media. They've advertised the Downeaster in the past so maybe that's coming next month. Not to r...