Boston Transportation Thread
This thread should provide an opportunity for everyone to provide updates and discuss transportation developments in the Boston area. For the moment, I'll leave you with this unusual story -- the city was buzzing today with the news that an articulated MBTA bus slammed into a trailer for the Sandra Bullock movie "The Heat" currently filming in Dudley Square in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Fifteen people were injured in the crash, though all are expected to survive.
http://images.universalhub.com/files...udleycrash.jpg Photo by Eric Esteves http://p.twimg.com/AxXdfXxCAAIGh3K.jpg:large 15 injured when MBTA bus crashes into truck Read more: http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro...#ixzz20AY8uPiD |
True cost of Big Dig exceeds $24 billion with interest, officials determine
07/10/2012 By Eric Moskowitz Read More: http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012...n1K/story.html Quote:
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The MBTA posted the seventeenth consecutive month of ridership gains with June ridership up 1.5 percent over last year. Additionally, the MBTA announced that for the first time in its history, transit rides surpassed 400 million for the fiscal year ending June 31.
MBTA ridership hits new record http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/07...xAM/story.html |
For the 19th time in 20 months, ridership is up on the MBTA'
Despite Fare Hikes, MBTA Ridership Continues to Grow If your commute to work has felt extra crowded lately, it’s not just “Stroller Cat” taking up room on the MBTA. According to officials, ridership is on the rise, despite predictions that after implementing a new fare structure riders would start finding other ways to get around Boston. The MBTA’s latest numbers show that ridership in September 2012 increased by 1.5% over the same time last year, with an average of 1.36 million passenger trips per weekday.' http://bostinno.com/2012/10/31/mbta-...eptember-2012/ |
Take A Ride On The MBTA’s ‘New Indigo Line’ In 2024
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I grew up outside of Boston and went to college there and to me there are really three major things that need to be addressed with transit in Boston I think.
The rolling stock for the light rail and metro lines are in desperate need of replacement they are old and unreliable. Second the green line is extremely overcrowded and painfully slow outside of the tunnels it should be turned into a subway line or at least separated from streets because the ridership definitely warrants. Third there needs to be a north and south station tunnel rail link for the commuter trains and amtrak. There are many other things that could be addressed but to me those would be my top three things to be addressed by 2024. |
State wants Green Line extension plan by Thanksgiving
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^The eventual cost is indefensible, but removing that hideous elevated freeway from the center of the historic core of Boston was a vast improvement in terms of urbanity and livability.
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They'd have done much better to just do away with the idea of a highway altogether and opt for a MUCH less costly boulevard in the manner of San Francisco's Embarcadero. It's baffling that, despite all the science and evidence to the contrary, we still insist on building or maintaining urban expressways for the sake of throughput capacity at the cost of billions and billions of taxpayer dollars.
That said, it is true that the simple fact that the highway is no longer the open wound that it once was is a HUGE improvement. It's just an inefficient use of resources. |
^ Exactly.
Seeing stuff like this just makes me so mad because all across NA when we ask for things like better transit or bike infrastructure, we constantly hear "Can't afford it" but obviously it's not a matter of can't but won't. When it comes to auto infrastructure, they find the money. |
Again, the cost of the Big Dig is indefensible. It's been held up as the example of wasteful spending and uncontrolled cost overruns for many, many years now. Yes, it's a travesty that money wasn't spent in a more holistic way. But it's not like Boston doesn't have a very good public transportation system--a dense and interconnected web of heavy rail, light rail, commuter rail, BRT, and buses.
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Report lays out Boston’s transit wish list
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Beer & Transit Featuring Michael Dukakis | October 2015
TransitMatters Wednesday, October 28, 2015 from 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EDT) Boston, MA Event Details Beer & Transit is our monthly networking event, beer summit, and idea incubator. This month will be our premier event! We paired up with the Boston chapter of the Young Professionals in Transportation to bring you the venerable Michael Dukakis. Guest Speaker | Michael Dukakis Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University Governor of Massachusetts (1975-1979, 1983-1991) 1988 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Dukakis has teamed up with fellow former Masssachusetts governor Bill Weld to reignite the conversation on the North-South Rail Link. The link has been a long-standing critical project that would link North and South Stations and open the door to a more comprehensive, frequent, RER/S-Bahn/BART/DC Metro-style regional rail network. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beer-tr...ts-19091003706 |
North-South Rail Link gets another look
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There was a large white paper report released today by Transit Matters a Boston area transit advocacy group about the commuter rail system in the state which has support from some people in state government.
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Massport is considering a $1billion people mover to better connect the blue line and the airport terminals.
Automatic for the people: Logan to study if a train (or monorail) should replace shuttles at the airport http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Bost...norail_web.jpg |
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Cool project.
Why does that cost $1 billion though? |
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