Can we all pitch in and get Phil Eng a nice present or something? Seriously, this guy is magic and what he's doing for the T is going to help Boston in so many ways.
Nobody wants to address the real problem with the Green Line; the subway is an obstacle course. Even before the slow zones, it was painfully slow. Trains routinely made more stops between stations than at them, all it takes is one train in front. Signals stop trains when there's nothing in front of them. They creep over switches even when going straight. I've ridden subways in 94 cities and was sure it was the worst one on the planet. That was before I visited Buffalo Cleveland & Pittsburgh earlier this year.
The real problem with the Green Line is that too much of it is basically a tram network that funnels into a subway and it is not grade-separated west of Tremont Street/Fenway Park. The Green Line lettered branches should either be elevated onto a modern concrete viaduct, dug into a trench or re-routed to run in parallel side streets.
@CCL0286 Germany 17; US 14; China 14; Japan 10; France 5; Italy 5; Canada 4; Spain 4; S. Korea 4; Belgium 3; England, Netherlands, Switzerland & Portugal 2 each; Austria, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary & Czech Rep. 1 each. Also, 50 more cities that I've ridden other types of rail transit.
are you sure that isn't just the sharp curve it takes to get into harvard station? many years ago Harvard sued the MBTA to get them to change the track trajectory when they were building it originally to keep it away from their dorms so it's super slow right as you're coming into the station
For OL it always has and will plan to keep going slow into Oak Grove, it's highly restricted to go into the layover tracks (past the platform) so they keep trains running slow to prevent any accidental overshoots
Judging by the ever-increasingly-bad bus service, I would say that the MBTA HASN'T turned a corner. Very often when going to and from work, even during the day but even more so at night, I have to resort to the use of Fully Endogenouse Express Transport.
Boston is a 24 hr city and yet so lazy when it comes to fixing how is it that even southern states have better transportation than the spirit of America Massachusetts 😢
Lifelong Connecticut resident here, Taxachusetts has always seemed terrible with transportation projects. Even repaving roads go on for YEARS. The whole state feels like it's frozen in the 80's whenever I visit. I really don't understand, even for the usual horribly slow pace of government projects mass seems to extra worse. Doesn't help that the layout of boston was intially planned for horses and is very organic which makes planning and rerouting traffic an impossible nightmare maze.
Phil Eng is a no-nonsense guy. Straight talk and no bureaucratic BS!
he was great with us under the LIRR
@@DBSGEEK7 he's an engineer and not a politician.
Can we all pitch in and get Phil Eng a nice present or something? Seriously, this guy is magic and what he's doing for the T is going to help Boston in so many ways.
I must say, my trip on the Red line has definitely been shorter the last couple of weeks and months. This is a step in the right direction.
Root for the MBTA ❤💚🧡💙💜
Don't forget 🩵, 💛 & 🩶! The MBTA is more than just rail!
Nobody wants to address the real problem with the Green Line; the subway is an obstacle course. Even before the slow zones, it was painfully slow. Trains routinely made more stops between stations than at them, all it takes is one train in front. Signals stop trains when there's nothing in front of them. They creep over switches even when going straight. I've ridden subways in 94 cities and was sure it was the worst one on the planet. That was before I visited Buffalo Cleveland & Pittsburgh earlier this year.
The real problem with the Green Line is that too much of it is basically a tram network that funnels into a subway and it is not grade-separated west of Tremont Street/Fenway Park.
The Green Line lettered branches should either be elevated onto a modern concrete viaduct, dug into a trench or re-routed to run in parallel side streets.
Exactly 94 cities? Come on lol
@CCL0286 Germany 17; US 14; China 14; Japan 10; France 5; Italy 5; Canada 4; Spain 4; S. Korea 4; Belgium 3; England, Netherlands, Switzerland & Portugal 2 each; Austria, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary & Czech Rep. 1 each. Also, 50 more cities that I've ridden other types of rail transit.
Wow! This is amazing.
Living in the City and all the fun that goes along with it,
seems a lot like chewing on Aluminum Foil?
Take your time, it is free the first time.
Still little slow zone on redline near harvard station also near slow zone near last stop oak grove on orange lines
are you sure that isn't just the sharp curve it takes to get into harvard station? many years ago Harvard sued the MBTA to get them to change the track trajectory when they were building it originally to keep it away from their dorms so it's super slow right as you're coming into the station
For OL it always has and will plan to keep going slow into Oak Grove, it's highly restricted to go into the layover tracks (past the platform) so they keep trains running slow to prevent any accidental overshoots
Judging by the ever-increasingly-bad bus service, I would say that the MBTA HASN'T turned a corner. Very often when going to and from work, even during the day but even more so at night, I have to resort to the use of Fully Endogenouse Express Transport.
so what is Fully Endogenouse Express Transport???
@ Sorry, typo -- supposed to be Fully Endogenous Express Transport
@@Lucius_Chiaraviglio are u describing nuclear fusion, or biology????
@@rearspeaker6364 Just the biology I have to fall back to when the T doesn't work.😜
@@rearspeaker6364 the F.E.E.T. method. Used in conjunction with the Mk.1 eyeball.
MTA in the 50 in Boston had 24 hours service and the mbta ruined it by adding a b for b.s.
Boston is a 24 hr city and yet so lazy when it comes to fixing how is it that even southern states have better transportation than the spirit of America Massachusetts 😢
Lifelong Connecticut resident here, Taxachusetts has always seemed terrible with transportation projects. Even repaving roads go on for YEARS. The whole state feels like it's frozen in the 80's whenever I visit. I really don't understand, even for the usual horribly slow pace of government projects mass seems to extra worse. Doesn't help that the layout of boston was intially planned for horses and is very organic which makes planning and rerouting traffic an impossible nightmare maze.
Lazy is a funny way of saying "criminally underfunded". And please point out a single US city in a southern state with a more robust transit system.
Get rid of Federal Reserve and things will greatly improve.