Monthly Archives: September 2018

Rolling stock for Regional Rail: What and how to buy

Posted on 2018-09-30 by Garrett Wollman

If you’ve been reading these posts at all in the past weeks, you’ll have noted that I’m very high on the JKOY Class Sm5 electric multiple unit trainset (pictured above if you’re using a desktop browser) used on Finnish railways … Continue reading →

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Two outlines of a Congestion Charge District for Boston

Posted on 2018-09-28 by Garrett Wollman

In today’s exercise in transportation blogging, I’m writing about congestion charging. Boston is an old and congested city, and suffers a great deal from air, water, and noise pollution as a result of automobile traffic. Unlike congestion pricing, which is … Continue reading →

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The cost of implementing Regional Rail

Posted on 2018-09-26 by Garrett Wollman

I just finished watching the video replay of Monday’s MBTA control board meeting, which was mostly about buses and bus drivers, and I found very little notable about it other than the fact that the MBTA’s Chief Engineer hates catenary, … Continue reading →

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Tying up the past week’s Twitter threads on (you guessed it) transportation

Posted on 2018-09-23 by Garrett Wollman

I guess I’m a transportation blogger now, which was certainly not my intent, but here we are. Last Monday, September 17, I took the day off from work and went to the joint MassDOT and MBTA board meeting at the … Continue reading →

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Transit funding for Massachusetts (and how to spend it)

Posted on 2018-09-06 by Garrett Wollman

Sorry folks, it’s going to be another long rant about public transportation in Massachusetts. I know this isn’t exactly what you signed up for, but it’s what you’re going to get until I manage to write something else. As I … Continue reading →

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