An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
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An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
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Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#22014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
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#42014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
ridership is about half of what it was pre-pandemic, so there are likely a lot of differences - the green line extension and some additional orange line stations have also opened since
the whole system is a mess right now, but there's a new general manager that seems to be the best chance we've ever had at turning it around
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#52014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
It's a bit faster than walking between Alewife and Porter.
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#62014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
there are a lot of differences since 2077...
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#72014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
ridership is about half of what it was pre-pandemic, so there are likely a lot of differences - the green line extension and some additional orange line stations have also opened since the whole system is a mess right now, but there's a new general manager that seems to be the best chance we've ever had at turning it around
My very anecdotal sense as someone who doesn't come into the city a lot is that rush hour traffic is worse than ever and transit is less crowded than it used to be be.
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#8I have been hacking on a better calculation environment for train speed zones.
Alon Levy wrote some python code that calculates how long it takes a train to accelerate and decelerate between different speed zones.
I have been cleaning up the code and adding more to it. I'm bringing it into a jupyter notebook so transit advocates can better present their routings. So far I have a framework that allows easy expression of alternate options along a segment of track
I'm not far off from being able to click and drag track segments on top of a map with ipyleaflet. I also want to hook in an optimizer to recommend the best track routings by cost.
[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/10/27/setting-speed-...
[2] https://github.com/paddymul/train-calculator/blob/main/Segme...
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#92014, but still interesting - I wonder how things have changed with more WFH. (And also, from what I hear, with the Red Line basically not working these days?)
ridership is about half of what it was pre-pandemic, so there are likely a lot of differences - the green line extension and some additional orange line stations have also opened since the whole system is a mess right now, but there's a new general manager that seems to be the best chance we've ever had at turning it around
Worth noting that the bicycle infrastructure in Cambridge, Somerville, and the adjoining parts of Boston has also skyrocketed in quality relative to its pre-pandemic state, it's extremely heartening to see. I don't take the T much anymore just because it's so easy to bike anywhere that I need to go. Shout out to the new path parallel to the green line extension, which makes it feasible to get from downtown to Somerville (and out to the Minuteman and 20 miles beyond!) without needing to navigate that viaduct and nightmare highway overpass east of Union.
Re: An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
#10This is very interesting, but wow, what a small system: only 3 lines? I'd like to see what a page like this would look like for Tokyo, where we have 121 lines and 882 stations in the greater metro area.