Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

[RandomWalk]

Kind of amusing that they held it in an incomplete state for so long before opening. They still haven’t installed the FVMs.

 

[Longfellow]

Updated plans filed for park space beneath the new GL viaduct.

Design Update - Open Space and Multi‐Use Path

https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/CDD/ZoningDevel/SpecialPermits/sp175/sp175_update_20250403.pdf

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^From above link

As part of special permit:

PB-175

Special Permit Application

www.cambridgema.gov

No photos, but this is under construction now. The ground is being dug up and I saw the construction workers having a meeting this morning at the site.

 

[ceo]

The obvious next step. (source: https://bsky.app/profile/shoshana.bsky.social/post/3lszoikl3fs22)

 

[bigpicture7]

The obvious next step. (source: https://bsky.app/profile/shoshana.bsky.social/post/3lszoikl3fs22)

I only support this if there's a provision for further northward extension to Fairbanks

 

[JeffDowntown]

I only support this if there's a provision for further northward extension to Fairbanks

The people of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming are very hurt by your neglect of their transit needs!

Also, will some of the cars short turn at Park and Government Center, or will all run through to GLX?

 

[bigpicture7]

The people of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming are very hurt by your neglect of their transit needs!

Well if they cared so much, they could have showed up at the community meeting

Also, will some of the cars short turn at Park and Government Center, or will all run through to GLX?

Yes, in order to sustain reasonable service levels in the urban core, some will short turn. Nonetheless, we can still achieve acceptable 19-day headways on the Anchorage branch if we do -- but that will balloon to an unacceptable 21-day headway if the much-needed Fairbanks extension is assumed, so we'll have to halt this project and study it for another 7 years before proceeding, during which time all transit equipment assumed for the study will have become obsolete, so we will again have to restart the study at that point. Further questions can be directed to the next community meeting in April of 2047, conveniently scheduled concurrently with the next Red-Blue connector community meeting.

 

[Charlie_mta]

The obvious next step. (source: https://bsky.app/profile/shoshana.bsky.social/post/3lszoikl3fs22)
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Actually, that's not far off from the electric interurban network of the late 1800s that spanned vast distances between cities. Here's the 1899 one for Massachusetts. The midwest had similar vast networks.

 

[stick n move]

Its insane that in the 1800s small towns like upton or milford had electrified rail and today places like lynn, readville, west roxbury do not. Upton was voted the most boring town in massachusetts lol, but hey in the 1800’s they could ride the lightning.

 

[JeffDowntown]

Its insane that in the 1800s small towns like upton or milford had electrified rail and today places like lynn, readville, west roxbury do not. Upton was voted the most boring town in massachusetts lol, but hey in the 1800’s they could ride the lightning.

By 1920 Lynn had direct trolley service to Scollay Square via the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway, where you could then transfer to the BERy system.