Regional Rail solves this dilemma. Trains would run at least every half hour all day in the suburbs and at least every fifteen minutes in Boston and surrounding suburbs like Newton, Waltham, and Lynn. Passengers should be able to get on a bus in an outlying city like Worcester or Lowell, take it to the train station, ride a train to Boston or another city, and connect to their final destination by bus or subway, on one fare. Electrification makes the trains cleaner and quieter; self-powered electric trains, called electric multiple units EMUs , also accelerate much faster than diesel locomotives and are significantly more reliable than current equipment.
Level boarding and wider doors provide ADA-compliant access for wheelchair users and also let able-bodied passengers board faster, reducing the amount of time a train has to dwell at each station. Expansion of rail service can expand opportunity and strengthen ties to our Gateway Cities. Regional Rail holds special promise for the wide variety of lower-income communities across the Boston region, which are often rich in underutilized rail infrastructure, a legacy of their industrial past.
Regional Rail would move stations back to town centers, walkable to working-class residents—precisely the sort of strategy that grows ridership and improves access to jobs.
November 4 - The MBTA FMCB endorsed a vision through 4 resolutions to electrify the Commuter Rail network to provide all-day, rapid-transit-style Regional Rail service throughout greater Boston largely following the framework and phased approach that we laid out in our reports. September 12 - We released our Regional Rail Proof of Concept during a live press event to stakeholders, policy makers and the public.
June - The MA budget was stripped of policy initiatives like Regional Rail electrification of the Providence Line, but we continue to influence the dialog around modernizing the Commuter Rail. April 27 - We met with the Newburyport Energy Council, by invitation, to discuss our report. February 27 - We released our Regional Rail report during a live press event to stakeholders, policy makers and the public. Boston, MA — Today, transit advocacy group TransitMatters released its report calling for modernization of the MBTA Commuter Rail network and an updated business model as part of a larger reimagining of the service.
Many people today do not have 9 to 5 jobs; they require more flexibility from their transit system. Regional Rail offers that flexibility. We are doing our economy and our residents a disservice by continuing to operate and plan for an outdated Commuter Rail system. Our Regional Rail plan takes lessons learned from proven best practices across the US and globally, and offers a highly cost-effective approach to transitioning to a new system.
Joe Difazio The Patriot Ledger. Faster, cleaner commuter trains that leave every half hour from stops on the South Shore. That's the dream outlined by public transportation nonprofit TransitMatters in a new report released Tuesday. The report calls for a modernization effort of the Old Colony Lines, the commuter rail lines that serve the South Shore and Brockton.
The electrification of the trains, as well as adding proposed "high-level platforms" and some station infill, will provide a "fast, frequent, electrified, all-day train service" to the North Shore, according to the TransitMatters, which published its study on Wednesday. TransitMatters said the study shows the electrification would cut 18 minutes from the Boston-to-Newburyport trip, 23 minutes from Boston-to-Rockport and would allow train service every 10 minutes in Salem — similar to subway service.
One transit advocacy group has released a strategy to get it started. After 18 months of planning, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Fiscal and Management Control Board had voted in November to revamp the commuter rail and transition to electric vehicles.
Defends regional rail, rejects rush-hour focus. That crisis manifests itself as a combination of the worst traffic congestion in the nation, an unreliable inner-core transit and bus network, and an antiquated approach to commuter rail operations that leads to outdated, inconsistent, and unreliable service.
The crisis threatens our growing economy by depriving many people of easy access to their jobs, schools, and other destinations, and exacerbates regional and social inequity. For this reason, TransitMatters has made regional rail one of its key focus areas.
The magnitude of the metro Boston transportation crisis has justifiably provoked public outrage and thoughtful discussion among a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Many voices must be heard, but to be impactful those voices must also be well informed. What specifically prompts this article is our concern that Sen. It has failed, and will continue to fail. It would further entrench an inequitable and failing status quo rather than move us toward inclusive solutions that recognize and respond to the magnitude and breadth of the crisis.
Advocates from TransitMatters are asking the state to cancel a multi-billion-dollar expansion plan for South Station, arguing that instead of building more platforms to support expanded service, the MBTA could instead make cheap organizational changes to move more trains more quickly in and out of the station — strategies that would also improve speed and reliability for riders.
T officials provided an update Monday, and it was clear some progress is being made but many challenges lie ahead. The T on April 5 began the move toward more subway-like service, reducing the number of trains at traditional peak periods and spreading trains out at regular intervals over the course of a day.
All but 1. The studies are exploring what kind of electricity infrastructure is needed, how much power is needed, and an assortment of other modifications to bridges and platforms. Negotiating contracts for vehicles on the fly is not something the T does very often, but officials indicated the chance to purchase the vehicles without going through a long procurement process would be appealing.
Those three lines account for only 10 percent of the existing commuter rail system. The debate over the future of the commuter rail system comes at a time when passenger traffic on the system as a whole is way down — roughly 11 percent of pre-pandemic levels.
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