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Fenway and Longwood probably deserve their own thread, and I'd proposed putting them together since:
1) They are connected, and the developing urban canyon along Brookline Ave sort of belongs to both
2) They are amply served by the Green Line (with an assist by Yawkey) but the rail doesn't come anywhere close to actually providing all-points transit
3) They are actually knit together by a high frequency mix of divergent low-frequency buses
4) Both are employment centers in their own right (BU & Hospitals)
5) but generate a large number of visitors from everywhere (ballgame attendees & hospital patients) and also have VIPs who expect to park (baseball bigwigs, highly-paid doctors, special needs patients & handicapped). Both have a huge amount of parking
6) Both have a large number arriving by private bus (charters for Fenway, LMA shuttles for Hospitals)
Seems ripe for
1) More bus/HOV priority
2) Consolidation of LMA routes & MBTA routes
3) Especially real quality bus that does:
1) They are connected, and the developing urban canyon along Brookline Ave sort of belongs to both
2) They are amply served by the Green Line (with an assist by Yawkey) but the rail doesn't come anywhere close to actually providing all-points transit
3) They are actually knit together by a high frequency mix of divergent low-frequency buses
4) Both are employment centers in their own right (BU & Hospitals)
5) but generate a large number of visitors from everywhere (ballgame attendees & hospital patients) and also have VIPs who expect to park (baseball bigwigs, highly-paid doctors, special needs patients & handicapped). Both have a huge amount of parking
6) Both have a large number arriving by private bus (charters for Fenway, LMA shuttles for Hospitals)
Seems ripe for
1) More bus/HOV priority
2) Consolidation of LMA routes & MBTA routes
3) Especially real quality bus that does:
- Cambridge-Red (Harvard-Central and Central-Kendall-(Lechmere/Union?))
- Kenmore-Green (Ideally in Ken Sq, not D-Fenway then C -St M then B-BU East, like the 47 does)
- Fenway-Longwood
- Huntington-Green
- Ruggles-Orange
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