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Category Archives: Transportation
Parsing the bond bill sausage
As the 191st General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was in its final hours before the end of the legislative term last week, the transportation bond bill that I wrote about last July was finally reported from conference committee, … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Society, Transportation
Tagged commuter rail, MassDOT, MBTA
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Massachusetts’ transportation bond bills: an analysis and recommendation
This month, I’ve spent rather more time than I would like to admit digging through the Massachusetts state legislature’s web site to try to figure out what the heck they have done with the transportation funding (and MBTA governance) measures … Continue reading
Posted in Law & Society, Transportation
Tagged commuter rail, MBTA, politics
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Quote of the day
From Harvard PhD student Jake Anbinder, in Democracy Journal: We need not defend the specific works of the midcentury master builders to recognize that the model that has replaced them—where some planners spend their evenings being berated by neighborhood busybodies … Continue reading
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Commuter rail schedules for the Plague Year
At a couple of recent MBTA board meetings, the authority’s staff have made it clear that they expect the passenger volume on MBTA commuter rail to remain depressed for significantly longer than that of the subway, light rail, and bus … Continue reading
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Tagged commuter rail, COVID-19, MBTA, the plague year
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My decade, 2010–2019
Attention conservation notice: about 8,500 words about me and what I did for the past ten years, what I previously wrote about that, and how I feel in hindsight. Minimally edited, rather disjointed, and jumps around in time a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Administrivia, Books, Computing, Food, sports, States of mind, Transportation, travel
Tagged autobiography, decade in review
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Comments on today’s Rail Vision decision by the MBTA board
I don’t usually write blog posts with my comments before the MBTA board, but after today’s momentous decision, with which I mostly agree, I wanted to memorialize my own comments in a more public place than the video replay of … Continue reading
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Tagged commuter rail, MBTA, Regional Rail
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I’ve written in these pages before about creating a cordon-type congestion charging zone (à la London) for Boston, and argued for it to be geographically quite large to reduce shunpiking. And I’ve also supported doubling the motor fuels tax — … Continue reading
About those stations on the Providence Line…
Two Sundays ago, instead of going for a bike ride in the nice weather like I should have, I went on a road trip of sorts to look at the condition of the six stations on the MBTA’s Providence Line … Continue reading
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Scheduling Regional Rail for the Providence Line
Followers of this blog will recall that nearly a year ago I started doing simulations for various MBTA commuter rail lines under plausible operating schedules for TransitMatters’ Regional Rail proposal. Since I live in Framingham, I concentrated mainly on the … Continue reading
Two months of thinking about buses
You may be wondering why I never followed up on my promise to simulate Regional Rail ridership for the Providence Line. In part that’s because it’s actually really hard — the Providence Line is much more complicated than the Worcester … Continue reading
