For the past couple of weeks, Red Line trains have been ordered to slow to a crawl while crossing the Charles River, due to concerns over railroad tie deterioration on the bridge. I’m a bit nervous about this, especially since the T has decided to make emergency repairs (without calling them that).
Pesaturo said the ties were scheduled to be replaced during the rehabilitation of the Longfellow Bridge, “but MBTA staff has decided to accelerate the schedule.”
[From the Somerville Journal.]
I’ve seen how slowly the trains have been running from the Harvard Bridge (Mass Ave), but hadn’t actually ridden one until yesterday. They really are crawling. The “accelerated schedule” means the Red Line will be shut down on June 14-15 and 21-22.
Read Full Post | June 06 2008 | Local News and Transportation News | No Comments » |
Tonight, I met my favorite bus driver ever.
Read Full Post | June 05 2008 | Anson and News and Happenings and Transportation News | No Comments » |
Popular Science came out with its ranking of the 50 Greenest Cities in the United States. Boston ranks number three and Cambridge number six. I’m happy to see that Irvine made it at number 21, right behind New York City. I’m not too confident in the methodology, however. It seemed like they were looking for innovative techonologies and development more than practical and proven enviornmental approaches. Philadelphia, with all of its mixed-use development and public transit, didn’t even make the list.
Read Full Post | June 02 2008 | Environment | No Comments » |
Two trolleys crashed on the D Branch of the Green Line this evening. The operator of one of the trolleys died. Pretty scary stuff…
Read Full Post | May 29 2008 | Local News and Transportation News | No Comments » |
May 23, 2008
As you know from yesterday’s blog, we will be highlighting our Jammin’ awardees leading up to the event next Wednesday. Today’s selected honoree is TRU member Stuart Spina.
Stuart’s involvement with the T Riders Union (TRU) began with a chance encounter last summer. In June 2007, he was at Dudley Square Bus Station conducting his own research on bus service and came across a TRU organizer doing outreach. He realized that we were working on the same issues, decided to attend a meeting, and as he says, “the rest is history!”
In the past year he has become a prominent face at the ACE office, TRU events and MBTA board meetings. At a recent press conference Stuart presented his research on twelve bus routes in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan, which he collected over nine months of observations. This report caught the attention of the MBTA, and they offered him a summer internship in scheduling and service planning. Read more…
Read Full Post | May 23 2008 | Environment | No Comments » |
I’m still getting settled in the Boston area. A more complete update will follow shortly. In the meantime, here’s a picture from my trip to the Red Sox game tonight:
Read Full Post | May 22 2008 | Anson | No Comments » |
May 21, 2008
Our friends at No Free Transfer have started a 25 Things I Hate about the T list. Ranking at number seven is the Silver Line bus. While the MBTA promised the residents of Dorchester and Roxbury service equal to or better than the Washington Street Elevated Orange Line that was torn down in 1987, the T’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) replacement has been anything but an improvement.
The Silver Line bus has not incorporated widely used BRT innovations. Even transit-starved Los Angeles has been able to implement signal prioritization and headway-based scheduling (which would reduce the “clumping” of buses which plagues the Silver Line bus) for its BRT, and other cities are following LA’s lead. Read more…
Read Full Post | May 21 2008 | Environment | No Comments » |
The proposed 1,000 foot Hub tower doesn’t go over very well with the FAA.
From the Boston Globe:
The Federal Aviation Administration has told Boston officials that, at 1,000 feet, the skyscraper might be an obstruction, possibly in the flight path of a plane aborting a landing at Logan and unexpectedly veering off over downtown Boston at low altitude, according to people involved in the development.
[Full Article]
Silly Logan flightpaths…
Read Full Post | May 17 2008 | Transportation News | No Comments » |
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