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I would love for MA to improve the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail line, too. The infrastructure feels so dated. The trains are slow, infrequent, and are l
by davexunit 9y ago
I would love for MA to improve the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail line, too. The infrastructure feels so dated. The trains are slow, infrequent, and are late or broken too often, so I just drive in the terrible Boston traffic instead. I would love to take the train if I could. Even the fastest train from Worcester to Boston, a single express train, takes an hour. But most likely your schedule can't align with that train (I wouldn't get on at the terminal station so I can't ride it) so you have to take an even slower one.
- tabeth 9y agoHeh, this pretty much summarizes it: https://i.reddituploads.com/ed7d8ee6c6b84fe2b1ad51aab4e29588?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=6e6aade4a50fc69fdced2b9ce1f8e609 https://i.reddituploads.com/ed7d8ee6c6b84fe2b1ad51aab4e29588...
- johncomposed 9y agoThis image is fascinating, is there a source to it? Reverse google images sadly didn't turn anything up.
- vitus 9y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5qdq03/mbta_commuter_rail_performance_2016/ https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5qdq03/mbta_commute... links to https://twitter.com/jimhaddadin/status/824708694441132034 https://twitter.com/jimhaddadin/status/824708694441132034 links to the underlying data source, http://mbtabackontrack.com/performance/index.html#/download http://mbtabackontrack.com/performance/index.html#/download
- jdormit 9y agoAnd then you get into the city and have to take the T... My 4-mile Green Line trip from home to work takes anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. The other lines aren't as bad, but the Green line is just shockingly terrible.
- ohyes 9y agoDepends on the branch, the D seems ok to me. It’s the only one that doesn’t share the road with cars, which is I think a large part of the problem with B and C. (Aside from the B having a stop every block).
- davexunit 9y agoI used to drive to the D line terminal station and take it to Copley Square and it was a pretty OK ride.
- ng12 9y agoThe Fitchburg line is even worse because you have to slog through the Concord rotary if you chose to drive. I'd love to see the face on one of my Californian friends driving on Route 2 -- nowhere else have I ever encountered a 55mph highway that ends at a stoplight.
- ojbyrne 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "ends" but there are parts of the Pacific Coast Highway (between Malibu and Santa Barbara) with 55 mph speed limits and stoplights.
- sampo 9y agoOr Route 1 at least through Central New Jersey, 55 and stoplights all over.
- dabber 9y agoSame in all of New York anywhere north of the city. It's very common.
- ng12 9y agoWhat I mean is it's a 50-60 mile stretch of highway that unceremoniously stops at a traffic light with no highway on the other side. It's a very weird thing.
- mng2 9y agoI don't mean to be contrarian but since there is a perfect counterexample near where I live... https://goo.gl/maps/vfpo5KGRqhs https://goo.gl/maps/vfpo5KGRqhs
- jcranmer 9y agoBreezewood, PA is pretty infamous: I-70 has a stoplight with US-30, where you turn right, go through a second stoplight, turn right again, and then get back on I-70. It and the I-78 approach to the Holland Tunnel are the only two places where the interstate has a traffic light, although the road is 35mph immediately in front of it in PA (I don't know what the speed limit of the NJ road is). Freeways ending in stoplights are actually fairly common, although they usually have lots of advance warning saying "FREEWAY ENDS." 50mph and 55mph roads having stoplights on them aren't particularly uncommon, particularly in rural areas.