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Finally after 8 years

They served the Bay Area well

Only in Massachusetts https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/28/metro/new-crrc-mbta-deal/

https://www.wcvb.com/article/commuter-rail-delays-littleton-tractor-trailer-hit/60232011 LITTLETON, Mass. —

Overtime on the T is another issue

2/15/24 was a very bad day for the MBTA

Eng is trying and honestly, I can't recall him being less than honest when asked a hard question.

It should not have taken THREE years https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/01/23/at-long-last-another-new-train-is-rolling-on-the-red-line

New Haven to New Rochelle has been the black hole for decades. I am hopeful that will soon change.

The Chinatown buses first showed up roughly 30 years ago when the casinos in Connecticut opened and the Chinese gamblers in NYC and Boston packed them. That soon evolved into $10 trips between Boston and NYC and at the same time the Chinese buses offered NYC and DC service. My first experience...

This video dropped a couple of weeks ago and it is horrifying to watch I did San Francisco to Boston in 2007 which was a horror show but this is insanity.

As recently as the early 2000s by 8 AM the major newsstands in Montreal had the Boston Globe and Herald and NY Times ( which the Globe printed ) which were shipped on the overnight Vermont Transit (owned by Greyhound) bus from Boston - VT would hold the bus until both Boston papers delivered...

Gray Line is hanging on in some markets https://www.grayline.com/

A nice feature on Charles Ro Supply Company just north of Boston.

I found the source of the PSA with the Mom and kids stuck on a crossing - It was shot in Orono. Maine - The actress who played the Mom is the co-host of a weekly talk show based in Bangor.

Oliver added nothing to issues that most railbuffs already knew but made more people aware. His researchers hit a home run with the before and after pictures of downtown Lac-Mégantic, Quebec 10 years ago. Lac-Mégantic was ignored by US media outlets overlooking that fire companies from New...

From WJZ Baltimore

Yes, that was part of the mindset 30 years ago.

The fiefdoms haven't coordinated anything since the MBTA was created in 1964 to salvage commuter rail after the debacle in 1959 that saw the Southeast Expressway open and the Old Colony Lines of the New Haven RR close within days of the highway opening. The Boston & Maine RR wanted out and...

The legislature has been kicking the can down the road for 50+ years. They need to separate commuter rail from the subway and bus portion of the network.