I think that they should get open gangway train for orange line and stay with married pair for red line. I don't think orange line has that much curve, and i think platform screen door would be nice for orange line, Full Height for underground and Half Height above ground, I heard all the time on the news that people are getting kill falling in the track. From what i remember Full Height doors are around 1 Million $ each platform , and Half Height are around half million $ per platform. But Platform Screen Door are much cheaper now, due to the 2008 financial crisis. And orange line should really get bombardier MOVIA the MBTA could design it the way they want it. I don't see why they should put 4 door for their new train, 3 doors are better in someway (now seats) they could make the doors wider, and maybe lower cost of making it? Less Doors = Less $. Other wise for the red line they should stick with bombardier, and make like a upgrade version for the 1800 (so the new train could run with 1800) and have the same interior as the new Orange Line Train. Just put like a joint order with red and orange line (bombardier would prop give MBTA a good deal). Right now there is 74 Red Line (1500,1600) and 120 Orange LIne (1100) so maybe they could put a order of around 200?
-What i think the MBTA could bring cost down on their new train is get Car A (With Driver Cab) and Car B (w/o Driver Cab) so it would be A+B+B+B+B+A. (NYC is doing that too)
-Yea i was meant headway. I would be great if they could bring it for 3-7 for Orange Line and maybe 5-10 for Red Line during day times and they could stay the same for rush hour too.
-MBTA could try to do like how many min before the next train comes, that would be great.
-MBTA doesn't need stainless steel on their train (Aluminium is fine with me), is a waste of money, they could spent those money on other parts of the train.
-How wide are the Red Line Train? I know they have to be above 2616 mm.
-For their new train they should not put the post (bar?) near the seats, (when i ride on the T i feel like i am always feel i am too close to the person who is seating. They should put it on the center or the train, that means more people could grab on too.
-For the old Blue Line (600), Orange line (1100), and Red Line(1500,1600) train they should sell it to other subway system, maybe even selling the UTDC 1988 (1700)trains too, this would be a big face lift for the MBTA. (Oldest being the 1993-1994 Red Line 1800)