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In order to get the density of riders to justify these megastations and ~$4M each trolleys, you need parking to be located somewhere. Or you could force the riders onto a bus from a park-and-ride lot to the station. If you drive up the per-rider cost of the T and make it more expensive and complicat...

There's all kinds of permutations, and pricing is kind of like what I read about railroad freight - they charge one price for restaurants, another for gas stations, warehouse clubs, Walmart. Visa may charge a different price than Discover or Mastercard or AMEX.

I think many folks will be spooked by the forecasts (probably rightly so) and stay home Friday, so then there will be the weekend to recover. '78 involved hurricane force winds and astronomical high tides and a coastal storm surge, which likely won't materialize this time. But it will be interesting.

Great pics; The river/stream marked waste (something) on the map is disturbing Not that dumping of effluents into your local waterway was in practice at that time & up to the 1960s or so, but I think the "Waste Way" designation is the tailrace from the water powered mills IMHO. As in ...

Great pics; The river/stream marked waste (something) on the map is disturbing

By announcing $$$ for passenger rail service, Deval drove up the cost of acquiring the rail from Housatonic.

Has any other railroad built a propane or LNG (or other liquid chemical storage) under pre-emption before? Is this the sorta the same as a "trans-flo" yard? Is this novel because of the size? To take the argument to a rediculous extreme, I could build a nuclear power plant, and as long as ...

About 1983-ish, when I first took the Framingham line, the new Back Bay platform was high. Then they said it was only a temporary platform, and rebuilt it as a low platform. I can't see it as being very hard to rebuild them high level. Haven't heard any project yet to rebuild the Newton platforms (w...

If these are going to be dogs, with higher maintenance and a shorter than normal life (like the LRVs, the Big Dig tunnel, or the Zakim bridge), then cancel the order now. If Hyundai Rotem wants to remain in the US market, they will fix this problem. As someone mentioned elsewhere, there needs to be ...

They blew a bunch of money buying up property and clearing it, then eventually sold it back to developers who made a lot of money on it. They spent the remaining highway money putting the rail corridor back together; Two orange line tracks + two North East Corridor tracks?. How many tracks were ther...

Resevoir was substantially modified and combined with the previously seperate Cleveland Circle. Perhaps a temporary station somewhere?

A bit off topic, but one or more of the stations on the D - Riverside - Highland Branch were demolished and replaced with wooden shelters. Why, and when? (1959?) Woodland survived because it was sold (?) to the golf club, the old Riverside station survived (only to burn down) because it was on the m...

Besides the brake dust and ozone / ionization, I think we are smelling greases and lubricants. Does the MBTA publish MSDS for chemicals and brake compounds?

It's been really quiet from the time they announced the appointment up until we heard about the psychologist. Governer Patrick today stated his confidence in the candidate. From the way the dismissal of Grabauskas was handled, the head of the MBTA is all about politics. Gov Patrick is not running fo...

T management had been trying to get rid of that line since the 1940s. When they finally did so, it was sneaky in the sense that they claimed they were doing repairs, but the process played out over years, with lawsuits flying all around. So it's not like they pulled the plug one day - they had a cl...