Lots to chew on in this report on the Alewife station closure:
*Repairs will be upward of $1M, but how much are the shuttling ops, and loss of time/productivity of thousands of station patrons having to remap their entire transpo patterns?
*Alewife apparently has 2,471 spaces to store crash-machines. How many people could we house in that space?
*Crash was intentional. Let's name/shame every news outlet that called this an "accident."
*When's Alewife reopening?
NBC10 just reported that they’re partially reopening the Alewife garage tomorrow, but still not running any trains? What? WHAT?
@bikepedantic they are planning on doing some work + weekend shuttling at the end of February from Alewife and I really hope they have evaluated if they can move a bit of that work to now to reduce future shutdowns.
@inliuofjoan that would be a nice upside
@bikepedantic doubt they've thought about it and instead I get twitter randos making excuses for the T for not doing that.
@inliuofjoan All I know in my soul is that if they treated full closures as service tragedies that disrupted people’s lives as much as they do, MBTA would find a way to cram in some extra work right now.
@PaperCities they’re running shuttle buses to the next station (which does not have a big garage)
@bikepedantic I can explain some of the rationale here. It’s more logistics than anything. Are there DMs on this thing?
Still stewing over this whole deal. I get that a big chunk of repair cost is likely restoring the atrium glass roof, but damn, that garage is literally rotting, and the MBTA just keeps throwing money at shoring it up. When is it not only good urban planning, but good cash flow management, to put it on the joint-development fast-track?
And @inliuofjoan asks a great question - is this closure moving up any SGR work that was planned for later shutdown periods?