Posts Tagged ‘Commuter Rail’

Fenway Center expansion makes largest private solar installation in state

Monday, December 7th, 2009

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The Globe reports developer/environmental activist John Rosenthal is building the biggest private solar installation across the street from Fenway Park in Kenmore Square.

Twelve hundred solar panels will sit on the rooftops of the $500 million Fenway Center that  Rosenthal’s Meredith Management is developing. He’s also starting Here Comes the Sun LLC, a company that will sell electricity to the complex’s occupants: Apartments, offices, retail stores and a garage. Here Comes the Sun will also power the Yawkey Commuter Rail station, which will be renovated from a break in a fence in a parking lot to an actual structure of some kind.

Commuter Rail gets animated

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation tweets about another MBTA visualization, this time for the Commuter Rail. So far I haven’t seen one dot stop on the track to wait for another dot to push it. 

Via Universal Hub.

Digital woman’s hilarious inability to pronounce “Natick” replaces Commuter Rail’s usual group groans with laughter

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

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On Monday night, a disembodied, digital female voice announcing the station stops on the Worcester line of the Commuter Rail led to a human conductor with exquisite comic timing cracking up the herds being carted away from their paymasters.

The system had a couple of small glitches — it arguably mispronounces Worcester (”Wooooooster”) and definitely mispronounces Natick (”Nattick”) — which led to the first spontaneous, group laughter I’ve ever heard on the commuter rail. Delay-induced groaning tends to be the only synchronized noisemaking on the Commuter Rail.

On Tuesday, we were back to human announcements, so the automated announcements may have been a test — I’ve emailed a T spokesman, but haven’t heard back yet.

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