By adamg on Mon., 6/25/2018 - 11:44 pm
But this time they really, really mean it, and before you know it, people will be riding the Green Line hard from Union Square and other points west of Lechmere, they say.
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Best Wishes For This Project !
By Elmer
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 12:45am
Any wishes for West Station or the Fairmount Line trains?
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 10:59am
ie, two of about 20 projects cut under the Baker admin?
West Station with Harvard $ is passed over for Pollack's Project
By anon
Fri, 06/29/2018 - 2:08pm
Meanwhile, Tufts doesn't have to pay a cent for the GLX. Baker get on the ball. please. We still remember when you called the GLX Big Dig 2.0. Don't let donor money hinder Greater Boston advancement
Someone didn't read the Globe today
By Waquiot
Fri, 06/29/2018 - 3:50pm
The Secretary of Transportation explained her view about West Station. One might disagree with her, but she does provide the rationale.
You, on the other hand, just keep on spouting irrationally.
Vague About Everything Else—But Puts Exact Price On West Stati
By Elmer
Fri, 06/29/2018 - 4:45pm
It popped out to me when I read her story because she offered no other specifics about much of anything. The rest was a mush of unanswered questions — cluelessness, with no vision for the future.
Her priority is accommodating motor vehicles first. People wishing to use other modes of travel, apparently isn't something she's given much thought to.
You see, Elmer
By Waquiot
Fri, 06/29/2018 - 10:57pm
You read the article and can offer a critique of it.
The other guy is the GLX troll.
true - a bad case of pollack amnesia
By anon
Sat, 06/30/2018 - 11:38am
does she not remember the west station schematics drawn up by the patrick admin? or the entire dmu plan? or the bus plan? or harvard's master plan?
the anon seems to have read the article / decoded the pr
By anon
Sat, 06/30/2018 - 11:27am
in fact a near perfect pr decode. the governor was reamed across mass this week after supporters & critics alike saw the latest glx articles. nearly every city and town has been told by pollack that massdot simply doesn't have the resources for their project / study. then they saw this week's glx news from a secretary with a clear historical glx bias. (note: the unbiased remark in the op-ed, it ain't highway vs transit, massdot and the mbta are one agency, pollack has full control) the sudden west station resources are meant to quell this week's glx blowback. on the flip side, you bought the pollack op-ed pr hook line and sinker. pollack is looking for the waquiots of the world. if you want to learn more about this situation I recommend looking at past clf documentation. there you'll see the real pollack, and why baystaters from pittsfield to boston are mad as hell
The anon, being you,
By Waquiot
Sat, 06/30/2018 - 5:05pm
Is completely insane.
I assure you, people in Pittsfield could not care less about the GLX. It’s basically you and the people in your condo complex who are up in arms.
Pittsfield does care
By anon
Thu, 07/05/2018 - 12:38pm
I got an earful while in the Berkshires. I am pro-GLX but I'm discouraged by how this administration has gone about building it. Imagine if the Gov selected a transpo secretary who had a preconceived dream to build a rail link between Pittsfield and NYC. If that secretary came in and systematically froze every major transit project in the state and used the upfront savings to build her Pittsfield-NYC train dream, the rest of the state would protest.There's no reason why everything else in Mass has to be put on hold to build the GLX. Everyone should get their fair share
I am really doubting most of this
By Waquiot
Thu, 07/05/2018 - 5:05pm
For instance, how did the topic of a train line to Somerville come up?
To be fair, were you to say that those in the Berkshires are annoyed at how much the state spends on the T versus, say, improving transit mobility in the rest of the state, sure, that makes sense, but much like the Old Colony Line and South Coast Rail, I don't see those out west being annoyed specifically with the project as opposed to the disparity in transit spending overall.
So does Lowell, who just got side-swipped
By anon
Sun, 07/08/2018 - 2:49pm
MassDOT promised for months that Lowell Line service would not be effected by GLX construction. Then the promise changed. Now from July to Dec all weekend Lowell service and possibly some weekday service will be cut off for the GLX; replaced with an hour long shuttle bus between West Medford and the OL. Greater Lowell is looking at a $1.2 billion biz/tour loss thanks to the shutdown.
Those tricky bastards
By Waquiot
Sun, 07/08/2018 - 9:36pm
Working on PTC on the Lowell line and all. Also, the PTC work won’t be done during the folk festival. Of course, we can ignore the fact that this work has been done on nearly every line on both sides. But if you insist, they also are busing on the weekends on the Framingham line due to the GLX.
You really have a one track mind, don’t you.
The PTC excuse was debunked earlier in the year
By anon
Mon, 07/09/2018 - 11:43am
Anyone who rides CR knows the PTC excuse tactic is the worst kept secret in GB, just like the overused BS terms when a Green Line train goes down. In the spring, MassDOT officials readily admitted that Lowell PTC work finished up earlier in the year. A few days of testing do not require shutdowns from July to Dec. According to my Keolis friends the feds told MassDOT to stop using PTC as an excuse for every shutdown. Its gonna end poorly
Again
By Waquiot
Tue, 07/10/2018 - 12:05am
According to your new conspiracy theory, what did they do on the Franklin Line this past spring? What are they doing on the Framingham Line now?
Also, you do realize that the T shut down 6 miles of the Northeast Corridor for about 6 years- days, nights, weekdays, weekends, holidays- to work on a similar project once. Care to blame Pollack for that?
Waquiot, I'm going to help you out here
By anon
Tue, 07/10/2018 - 11:47am
The multi-year project you are referring to. I'm assuming you mean the Southwest Corridor. They were able to shut down service because? Do you know? Ok, I'll help you. The Fairmount Line. The Fairmount, which back then was called the original Franklin, Midland, and other names, was a barely used set of tracks between the NEC and South Station. The Fairmount Line became the main service line for Amtrak and the T while the SWC was being built. The SWC was also a Amtrak, CR and Subway development. The GLX is just light rail, not even a subway line, just light rail. In addition, the Lowell Line doesn't have a bypass like the Fairmount-SWC condition. Amtrak Maine trains can stay on the Haverhill Line (they typically use the Wildcat) and slowly roll into Boston. But Lowell and Woburn are screwed. You definitely have passion Waquiot, but there's always that missing link you can't get through a simple google search. As for Pollack, well, she does it to herself. She just admitted the CTPS modeling numbers she pushed for West Station were BS. CTPS modeling was the basis for the GLX. Things are going downhill fast
Things are going downhill fast
By Waquiot
Tue, 07/10/2018 - 2:55pm
In your theories.
Still, what was the T doing on the Franklin Line when they claimed it was PTC installation?
Still waiting for your theory on that.
GLX will take advantage of weekend Lowell Line closures
By Ron Newman
Tue, 07/10/2018 - 3:26pm
I asked about this at this morning's GLX Community Working Group meeting. The weekend shutdowns for Positive Train Control installation will make it easier to do some of the GLX work this summer and fall.
Yes, it's inconvenient for people who want to travel to and from Lowell on weekends, but at least the T is providing replacement bus service, *and* (unlike last year) the bus service is totally free of charge. There will undoubtedly be some economic impact on Lowell, but where do you get your "$1.2 billion" figure from?
You got BS'ed. PTC is finished on Fitchburg, wrapping up on Low
By anon
Wed, 07/11/2018 - 1:03pm
They're GLX shutdowns after August
Yup, Keolis was the first to call bullspit on the PTC tactic
By anon
Wed, 07/11/2018 - 2:26pm
Keolis called in the bull earlier this year. I was on a Fitchburg inbound that was told they had to stop at Porter because of PTC work. The conductor announced to my car that it was bull and they would proceed past Porter. They did, and the GLX crew had to scramble off the tracks. Expect more Keolis trains to cut through the GLX site.
You two are so cute
By Waquiot
Wed, 07/11/2018 - 4:14pm
And by “you two†I am referring to the same person, of course.
Again, Franklin? Framingham? Anything?
I call absolute bullshit on
By DTP
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 11:41am
I call absolute bullshit on this story. That violates so many railroad safety rules that if an engineer did that they'd never work again.
They wait until the crew moves
By anon
Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:34pm
I've been on two Boston area trains that have done this. One Lowell train that waited in Medford until the GLX crew left. One South Station Amtrak train that waited outside Boston until a PTC crew left. Its called hierarchy.
Ah Yes
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 06/30/2018 - 7:06am
More substance free fake news from our resident GLX compulsive - and here I though Bill Wood was dead ... seems like he's now an internet zombie yet again railing about GLX from his Florida home.
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Fourth Groundbreaking is the charm
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 12:39pm
Btw, who is paying for all of these groundbreakings?
Media
By cybah
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 6:35am
I've always found these media events to be funny.... they throw some dirt and call it 'groundbreaking'
what DOES warrant one of these event?
I mean GLX work has been going on for a few years now. Is this when DOT brings the check from the Fed or something else?
Longfellow
By BostonDog
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 6:58am
I was stopped by a reporter on the day the Longfellow "reopened" while riding my bike to work. She was surprised and confused when I told her it was never closed to bikes except for a few weekends. I don't think she even knew it was open to cars headed to Boston for much of the project.
Whenever
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:13am
Mayor Quimby is up for re-election
Ribbon-cuttings, too
By Ron Newman
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:20am
Often a road, bridge, or bike path has been open for use for weeks or months before such a ceremony. The Mattapan bike path extension has been open for over a year and still has not had its official ribbon-cutting. (One was scheduled earlier this year, then cancelled due to rain.)
Would you rather they leave
By DTP
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:31am
Would you rather they leave it closed until they can schedule such a ceremony?
Personally I like how it's currently done - open it as soon as possible, hold the ribbon cutting later, when convenient.
Often they wait to hold the ribbon cutting until after all work is complete, including work that doesn't require the road (etc.) to be closed - things like final landscaping, site cleanup, etc. And it can be difficult to schedule a time that works for all the pols who want to be there.
I agree
By Ron Newman
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:41am
but I think Mattapan actuallly wants the formality of a ceremony too, and hasn't had it yet.
Bec Pollack, Ramirez will be hit with Mattapan Trolley questions
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 10:55am
The Mattapan Trolley improvement plan keeps getting postponed. MassDOT claims they don't have the funding for it. However, they did have $850,000 for a third GLX groundbreaking.
Actually its the fourth groundbreaking
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 4:11pm
I know its hard to keep track. The next groundbreaking is slated for October.
Another reason Mattapan was cancelled
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 3:51pm
The entrance to the station has a two story office building for the Transit Police and community rooms unfortunately the police don't staff it and the community can't use it.
Keolis Conductor gave me the opposite story - saving face
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 10:51am
A bunch of us on the Fitchburg line noticed a dwindling number of workers at the GLX site since May. Same thing yesterday evening. The Keolis conductor leveled with the train. The GLX is in a tough spot. The ceremony was meant to save face.
2020 is the projected opening
By Waquiot
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 9:29pm
And why is a Fitchburg train taking riders on the Lowell line? You guys might not have been along the GLX work area, since most of it is along the Lowell line.
The Union Square branch is
By anon
Wed, 06/27/2018 - 1:34am
The Union Square branch is along the Fitchburg Line.
And the other branch is
By Waquiot
Wed, 06/27/2018 - 8:02pm
Not.
Wrong Waquiot
By anon
Wed, 06/27/2018 - 12:00pm
Fitchburg Line = Somerville GLX. Slated for 2022, not 2020
Quick quiz
By Waquiot
Wed, 06/27/2018 - 8:01pm
Which commuter rail line is closest to Tufts University? I’ll give you a hint. It’s the one that stops at West Medford Station.
Google the project and check out some of the details. It’s a fascinating project that will greatly improve transportation options for Somerville. I’ll leave it to you to track down the info, though.
I hope I'm around for the
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:23am
I hope I'm around for the next green line extension ground breaking.
How did I miss this?
By Waquiot
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 8:44am
Elaine Chao, Charlie Baker, and Joseph Curtatone all at one event.
Oh well, I'll be there for opening day. That much I assure all of you, especially a certain anon whose posts today should be laughable.
(But yeah, someone is running for re-election.)
Elaine Chao
By Ron Newman
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 9:05am
came across to me as competent, intelligent, and good-humored. These are not generally qualities that the current federal administration selects for.
Capuano & Chao-Trump together?
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 11:42am
Hmm. If I'm Pressley's campaign team, I would take the Capuano & Chao photos and plaster them across District 7 with the text "Resisting Trump? Ah, Nope"
I wouldn't
By Ron Newman
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 3:30pm
and I think she's smart enough not to. It would read as opposition to the Green Line extension, losing her any chance of support in Somerville or Cambridge.
Nope
By anon
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 4:19pm
Boston is anti-GLX to the core, especially after the West, Bus, and Fairmount cuts designed to pay for, you guessed it, the GLX
Everyone I talk to in Boston loves it
By Waquiot
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 9:27pm
Very rare that the Pioneer Institute thinks a public transit project is worth while.
So, other than anonymous commenters on the internet, where are these masses of Bostonians that don’t like this project?
I live a mile from a proposed stop
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 10:28pm
Everyone I know near this project is irate that the promises of 2014 did not pan out and that it has been intolerably delayed when it fills a massive hole in an extremely densely populated area!
The only malcontent who wanted to delay it has since moved to Florida and then died - and he lived on the Winchester line, miles from where it would terminate. This guy was demanding that it be tunneled under to end at Davis as a delay tactic. Also tried to claim that moving the diesel locos ten feet over would cause all of West Medford to get cancer. He enlisted a couple of other elderly fools living nowhere near the line and at least one idiot who claimed they owned right of way that was not in their deed and that they never paid taxes on.
Of course GLXtrollanon doesn't live anywhere near this and probably gets paid $0.25 a post by the Koch Losers to "dissent".
Plenty of People in Somerville
By Oscar Worthy
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 4:59pm
and Cambridge believe that the GLX is a boondoggle. Plenty.
Evidence?
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 06/26/2018 - 10:28pm
Care to share the basis of your assertion?
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