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this is a mistake

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Apply to be the next Executive Director of TransitMatters: transitmatters.org/careers-1/20...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

this is an unfortunate number to publish because Mass could build this many homes in the next decade and it would do very little, if anything, to rein in housing costs. the real number is probably ~3x higher www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/06/b...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some of the worst people in the housing discourse are the ones who insist you shouldn’t build tall buildings in downtowns www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/29/o...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

So where did the MBTA find an extra $300m? (not to mention that using that money for FY26 just kicks the can to FY27…) commonwealthbeacon.org/transportati...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Where is NYC congestion relief pricing already working? as of noon today, trips through the Holland Tunnel are about twice as fast as normal trip times via www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments

With $1.3b in one-time fair share funds available to the Commonwealth, we should use this opportunity to use $650m to fully fund the MBTA Red-Blue Connector www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/05/m...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I know the MBTA has declared victory over speed restrictions, but are they really going to stop updating the dashboard? www.mbta.com/performance-...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

while the T increased Red Line trips for the winter, they ended up decreasing the scheduled service hours—suggesting they could have increased service more if they had kept service hours constant

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

The last shutdown on the #MBTA Green Line was like many of the other Green Line shutdowns, with no impact to trip times over the affected area

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

🫡 mass.streetsblog.org/2024/12/17/m...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Good they’re able to use single tracking instead of shuttling but what is happening at Quincy Center

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

new MBTA schedules are out, and Sunday (and presumably Saturday…) Red Line service (second to last dot) is up over 30%

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

despite having 24 cars (4 trainsets) of new Red Line cars, the T only has 1 new trainset running today

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Roughly 30% of today’s #MBTA NB Red Line trains are bunched. Yikes

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

getting more pessimistic about this 5 year SOGR promise

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Polycentricity is great for cars and bad for everything else. A walkable, transit-oriented city is one with large job concentration in and near the center, and the European cities you think are counterexamples are rather strongly-centered (Paris, Munich, Stockholm, Berlin...).

submitted 91 days ago • 15 comments

this is exactly what we need in Davis Sq and across Somerville. let’s get it done www.cambridgeday.com/2024/11/27/d...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

For a year of intensive shutdowns, the T said all slow zones would be gone by the end of 2024 /and/ the tracks would be in a state of good repair until the end of the decade. But if track issues are still resulting in service stoppages, how likely is it the T holds up the second half of the deal?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

meanwhile in Boston, we’re getting a 50% bigger bus terminal on top of a major transit hub, for free

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

this is a remarkably stupid reason to not put a pedestrian path on the new North Station drawbridge www.cambridgeday.com/2024/11/22/d...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment