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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Where are you getting 6-9B per mile? Where are you getting these numbers from?
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    And lots of trains, and affordable housing (plenty of space at Otis) to reduce the traffic
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    They're talking 2-3B apiece, aren't they?
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    So, the present depth is 32ft. Let's assume future proofing to 50ft. Again, assume another 15 ft as a buffer. Add another 35ishft to reach the lower deck of a 55ish ft TBM shaft. About 2500ft of tunnel each side and then some trenches either side? The power ROW could be used to connect 495 to Rt...
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    Cape Cod Rail, Bridges and Highways

    Was tunneling explored as an option?
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    Seaport Transportation

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_bus For very minimal cost, this would greatly increase speed/capacity, and would allow both BRT and LRT simultaneously
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    So I guess all the new buildings being built in downtown Wormtown are all being built by delusional people. I'm going to guess that, baring data from you, the funders dumping a billion or more into Worcester may have data that refutes your feelings.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Worcester County grew by about 8 % between 2000 and 2020
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Worcester Line improvements also facilitate "CompassRail" development. Worcester is the fastest growing city in the NE and better transit is needed to continue. The Worcester Line is the 2nd most used line
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    MBTA Construction Projects

    This is a tragedy
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    MassDOT Rail: Springfield Hub (East-West, NNERI, Berkshires, CT-Valley-VT-Quebec)

    And since the MBTA has nothing to do with it, it is not costing $40 million.
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    The solution is RL to Arlington Heights and a single track LRT to Bedford
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    Crazy Highway Pitches

    It would be Boston Glass in that case
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    The trolleybus expenses are total bs. The T was trying to get rid of the catenary and cooked the numbers to justify it

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