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I've noticed other Red Line slow zones which have appeared in the last two weeks or so: -NB between Porter and Davis -NB leaving South Station -Sometimes stopping for a minute or more before entering a station, though the headways have been generous enough. Seen this at Fields Corner and Park Stree...

I see they're starting construction on a new apartment high-rise in the weedy old parking lot attached to the North Cambridge TT yard. "Trolley Park" I think they're calling the new complex. The construction might be interesting to watch from a transit remnant standpoint. There are lots of...

What a load of crap the "it's too expensive" argument is becoming. How about some real numbers for the "proposed alternatives" people are ranting about. I guarentee they will at least as expensive if not more expensive than Phase III is. But amazing how the figures are never inc...

Running the proposed line along the current Lowell commuter rail corridor may pose problems for Medford. That portion of the city is already dealing with parking issues around the current West Medford commuter rail stop, where a street-level crossing currently ties up traffic on Route 60. Nonreside...

What a load of crap the "it's too expensive" argument is becoming. How about some real numbers for the "proposed alternatives" people are ranting about. I guarentee they will at least as expensive if not more expensive than Phase III is. But amazing how the figures are never inc...

That would be way too expensive. Real replacement service only needs to go as far as Dudley Square to adequately serve the commuters affected by the closing of the El. The former stations beyond that point--Egleston, Green St., and Forest Hills--are close enough to the Southwest Corridor and a resto...

Some of the slurry walls that were poured to supported the weight of the old elevated Artery during construction go deep enough to be recycled as tunnel walls on sections of the proposed N-S link ROW. The rail link was part of the original design decades ago, but in order to secure federal funding f...

Have they done any work on Science Park station or the Viaduct as part of the construction? ADA raised platforms? An elevator? Upgrading the track so Type 8's can finally ride out to Lechmere on a regular basis? A new coat of paint? Better lighting? Patching the crumbling concrete on parts of the Vi...

I believe the primary impediment to using newer trolleys on the line is power load more than anything else. The line draws power off the Red Line, and would require its own power station to operate multiple Boeings or T7's at once (and obviously T7's would require upgrades to pantograph overhead). S...

Didn't the Federal GAO(General Accounting Office) give Romney and the rest of his "BRT Mafia" the finger some time back, by placing Phase Three of the Silver Lie on the "Not Recommended" list for funding, IIRC?? Where's Das Mitt goona come up with the cash then , if the feds cut...

Don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but the escalator at Porter that killed that kid has been out-of-service ever since this week's incident happened at Harvard. They haven't even been taking it apart or anything...it's just stopped and blocked off with the yellow repair barricades (usually ...

From the aforementioned link to the Romney transit plan article: "Those T expansion projects include $756 million for the third phase of the Silver Line bus service" Too bad so much of the limited transit funding will be wasted on a new bus tunnel running from South Station to Boylston. T...

MAYDAY... MAYDAY... TOPIC ALERT! Is the sign lit again yet? Ill be there tonight so i can check it out. Yeah, what was this topic again? Wait, I'm the one that started it drifting...ooops... :wink: The Harvard sign is still out. Not lit, but still in place, and judging by the color, looks like the ...

Moving back to topic, what you saw in Harvard Square is called "station domination". I've seen several different companies do this, in several different stations. It can be annoyingly unsubtle. I rode a Red Line car this PM that was "dominated" by said Axe ads. So the Harvard ad...