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    Regional Rail (RUR) & North-South Rail Link (NSRL)

    tl;dr: if Hyde Park can be quad-tracked, then yes I think that cumulative "show-up-and-go" ("SUAG") Purple Line frequencies should be achievable there one way or another. But that's a medium-sized "if". I think this could be doable, but keep in mind it will take something like 2000 feet to...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Thank you! My apologies, I always forget that spreadsheet exists. Full agree with all of this. Agree in principle, but IIRC Hyde Park poses challenges for NEC Quad-Tracking (long-term desire for Amtrak) -- @F-Line to Dudley has more background on this. I also don't know that I would expect...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    That data is really fascinating. What's your source? (Stray observations: The 31 and 21 have comparable ridership, despite the 31 historically running 2x-3x as often. The 16 does quite well, given that it requires a little bit of a doubleback.) The "Arborway Transfer" use case is an interesting...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Sorry, can you remind me where this stat comes from? (I know there's been a lot of back and forth, so I may have missed it.) It is true that the BERY model is basically designed to make all trips 2SRs (under the assumption that everyone is commuting into downtown). But with multiple "downtowns"...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Yeah, I see what you mean, fair point. OL East ...I did? I didn't mean to. The pale green lines with black centerlines are meant to be BRT corridors, running modified versions of the T22, T23, and T28 (if not more). I did include an LRT line along this corridor on my Transportation Dreams...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Making good on this promise now. I was gonna write more background here, but I've already written a lot on the general topic of the Dorchester bus network and what makes it unique. (See for example here.) One of the things I've been thinking about for a while is the way that multiple paths...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    That's a fair argument!
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    This is definitely a fair rejoinder and an interesting point. Lots of variables that I think may impact this, including job locations/destinations, walking distance tolerance, travel time tolerance, and we've talked about some of those in the past. But this does bring up an idea we've...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Yes, definitely agree with this, and I agree that Francis and Longwood are the keys. Thanks for pulling the numbers! Yeah, when I was staring at the pivot tables last night, it seemed like the official figures for Prudential were, like, an order of magnitude above the other stops? I thought I...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    This got me thinking. The latest iteration of my crayon/GLR map has three services using Ruggles St: an H Harvard <> Ruggles service, an L Brigham Circle <> Mattapan service, and an M Brigham Circle <> BU Med Ctr service. The L and M run along Huntington before turning on to Ruggles, so aren't a...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    Huntington Extended Subway Stations So, if we extend the subway under Huntington, do we keep the existing stop locations? In theory, one might think that moving from a surface light rail line to a subway would have fewer stations, but, on closer inspection, that's not obvious to me. It's about...
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    Fantasy T maps

    Yeah, it’s a fair point, and it touches on the larger question of “city identity and heritage” vs the neighborhood equivalent.
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    Fantasy T maps

    The first African American to own land in Boston. (Really it should be Atkins, since that was her surname (or her original surname, Potter), but I thought that Googling “zipporah boston” would get clearer results than “atkins boston”, and so would be better "marketing" for this general idea in...
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    Fantasy T maps

    This was quite possibly my favorite thing about your map, and I actually made a remark to my partner the day before I posted this, saying that I really liked the concept and would love to eventually implement it. I think it’s a wonderful delightful idea. Part of why I didn’t is that the...
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    Fantasy T maps

    The A Line is a BRT corridor with significant dedicated infrastructure, supporting dedicated A Line buses, but also serving routes such as the (T)7 and (T)111, so Southie is getting a piece of the pie too. On a 100-year timespan, I would eventually convert and expand the A Line into a...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    ^ Huh, I guess that’s true — the one Fairmount train that continues on to the NEC (to Stoughton, IIRC) doesn’t actually stop at Readville, does it?
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    Fantasy T maps

    I've continued to iterate on my Transportation Dreams submission, to capture a few more ideas and experiment with some things. In no particular order: Chelsea: I'll probably write more about this at some point, but this map depicts an approach we've been tossing around a bit, wherein the...
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Something else I just noticed: the station at the end of the Franklin Line is labeled "Forge Park/Route 495", despite being signed everywhere else (on the T's website, on the schedule, and on the platform) as "Forge Park/495" (omitting the "Route").
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    These are interesting examples, definitely need to look at these more closely. The only piece I'd say without first reviewing further is that we know from the examples of the D Line, GLX, and the Orange Line that full grade separation with 1-mile stop spacing can produce speeds upward of 16...

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