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BostonUrbEx wrote:Procurement bids were postponed to May 1st before, but bids are now due in May 15th. Just keep on pushing it off.

nomis wrote:Those 24 CAF Type 9's will come in at $ 4.923 Mil a piece ...

deathtopumpkins wrote:Maybe they're removing them now?

It would be nice if the Green Line fleet was upgraded with rollsigns to replace the LCDs. :P I don't know how those hard to read LCD signs even pass ADA standards. It will be interesting to see if the refurbished Type 7s come back with different displays. The T buses have very readable large destin...

The whole point is to go to Back Bay for the hotel access and nobody is going to pay for another South Station > Seaport line.

Having now seen the proposed station location, I'm a bit concerned that we're missing out on a good opportunity. The proposed station will not serve the core of the Seaport. It will not serve the World Trade Center, Fan Pier or Seaport Square. As it stands now, the Convention Center will be the excl...

I believe there's a psychological component to it. People know they can do Silver to Red to Green, or Silver to Red to Orange. But I'm willing to bet that the idea of transferring to the commuter rail for casual trips is a bit foreign to most riders. They take it into the city, they take it out of t...

This is truly shocking and sad news. As a kid, my dad would take me into Boston on the T and I'd look around and wonder how something like that ever came to be and how it worked. I mean, you know how buildings get made - that happens every day. You can see a bridge get built. But subways were always...

It doesn't directly duplicate the SL. The latter doesn't offer the kind of direct connection to Back Bay that the Seaport really needs and it also seems to be running into vehicle capacity issues. (Shocking, I know) I can't wait to hear more about what kind of rolling stock they're getting. The two ...

Not sure what was there before Ashmont. My mind blacks out with the flashback fantasy that I still have of the A&W Root Beer Stand where Dunkies is now that used to serve you a tall root beer with tiny ice shavings and a huge head of foam in a glass mug. If that place were still there, they'd p...

One of the frustrations many commuters had, was the lack of transfers. Unless you have a Links pass, you will not be allowed to walk from State to Park unless you want to pay a second time. A man in the audience pointed out how they offer transfers on the 39 from the E, and some MBTA official said ...

I can only hypothesize that someone at the T (who was also virtually immortal) really, really hated Dudley Sq. and wanted to do as much as possible to bring it to ruin over the course of several decades.

As far as neighborhoods go, it really got a raw deal from the T.

It appears they're roughly building it in two parts thanks to the MBTA's insistence on keeping the station open (i.e, not have public pressure for a quick build). First the inbound end will be built - possibly even finishing the elevator bridge - and once passengers can board there they'll plunk in...

Arborway gone , but Brooklyn making a comeback...... LA, too (it's a loop, but whatever) I should mention that while they're building this, a short connector line will be constructed below, to link the Red, Blue, Gold and Expo (we ran out of colors). It's sad that Boston doesn't take transit seriou...

Not one photo of the concrete that has been crumbling away to nothing for years without so much as a patch.