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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Something's clearly wrong with the 39's ridership draw. It did 19,040 weekday riders in the 1990 Blue Book (first counts after the bus extension to Back Bay and streetcar reinstatement to Heath gave the route its final shape and audience), down to 14,877 in the 2014 BB, down to 11,600 in the...
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    Dedham Developments

    It was during the Romney Administration / Grabauskas GM'ship, circa 2005-07. Right around the time Amtrak started making renewed and serious noises about NEC capacity vs. Needham Line slots and a few state reps started filing bills (never passed) about another re-study of Millis commuter rail...
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    Dedham Developments

    The T just wanted it off their books; they didn't care one whit about getting fair value. Same with the Belle Ave. property sales that formally nuked the transpo corridor preservation. They got shockingly little for those too, because value wasn't the point...salting the earth on the transpo...
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    Dedham Developments

    The transportation provision for OLX-Dedham was lost forever when the T sold the lots on Belle Ave. 15+ years ago for single-family homes. Might as well make the whole corridor a monument to waste now.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    River Works just placemarks a singular employer, though. It's not a "neighborhood" or collective of employers in any sense, because the access has been singularly private for 130+ years. And this proposed stop isn't at the plant at all; it's 1/3 mile up, tantalizingly at the edge of both West...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Assembly wasn't a new name, though. It dates back 98 years to the old Ford assembly plant opening, with the Boston & Maine classification yards and miscellaneous shipyards along the river attracting other yard-adjacent industrial warehousing businesses. It was one the largest employment center...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    It's definitely an 'emerging' name driven by new development in the neighborhood. You've got all those new apartments slated for the ex- GE gear plant site, lots of empty lots along the waterfront, industrial scuzz that's ripe for flipping, and the automile stretch of Lynnway that's ripe for...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Commercial St. is the first cross street in from the river and the first place to unite the street grid with the Eastern ROW. And West Lynn was in service from 1838-1958, so the neighborhood grew up around the stop. The BRB&L's local stop right down the street was also called West Lynn...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    The old B&M West Lynn station was at Commercial St. at the junction with the Saugus Branch about a half-mile from River Works, so it's not quite in the same place as this new proposed station.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Keeping it the same color as the rest of the system is logical because it's a thru route that begins in Boston and not a separate shuttle route. Different color can give the mistaken impression that you have to change trains en route.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    There's no signal system on Mattapan, so the line is entirely reliant on the line-of-sight alertness of operators because there's no block occupancy indicators. That's where the lack of supervision comes from; much-simplified dispatching meaning fewer dispatchers and inspectors needed for...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Biggest *oof*: the "Providence/Stoughton Line" label being moved below Canton Jct. On v. 37 of the map the label straddled the line split so made sense. Now it makes no sense whatsoever being alongside the Providence-exclusive portion of NEC.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Holy crap is that map awful. Regressions galore from v.37, especially with the rapid transit representations.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    SCR is going to stress the Old Colony's on-time performance quite a bit with all the extra running miles having to precisely time on the single-track main. So that could routinely screw up platform assignments at SS. But yeah...frequencies aren't increasing at all so it's status quo when...

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