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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    I know the Lexington Chief of Police has testified to this effect more than once. For that matter, I grew up there, and when the MMB went in a lot of the abutters put up fences between the path and their backyards. Within a few years, most of those fences had gates installed in them.
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    Underground station layouts

    I'm having trouble making sense of this. Is this the Green Line station or is it the mess of former track alignments between Haymarket and North Station? If you click through to the original, it has a higher-resolution version.
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    Chelsea Branch Railroad Remains/Route

    That's great, I'm looking forward to seeing it. I was sort of half-assedly working on something like this a while ago, basically cleaning up the MassGIS railroads data set, but didn't get very far.
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    Reasonable Transit Pitches

    Those two tracks would have to be used for the Urban Ring station. See my analysis of this here, map here.
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    Reasonable Transit Pitches

    The problem here is that Urban Ring will have to eat one of the Orange Line's track locations, forcing OL to move over one and leave no room for a CR platform. Remember that the track locations cannot be moved, because of the supports for the elevated highway, and the corridor can't be widened...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    Apropos of gaps in rail trails, Belmont Citizens Forum is out with a detailed article on the plans for Phase 2 of the Belmont Community Path (their stretch of the MCRT).
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    OSR? Google is failing me.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Well, that would be irritating. Battleship Cove (the museum) has poor visitation as museum ships go, because there's basically nothing else to see or do in Fall River other than Lizzie Borden's house. Having an eponymous commuter rail station right there certainly couldn't hurt.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Isn't the last stop on the Fall River line supposed to be Battleship Cove, not Fall River Depot? (And why is it called that instead of plain old Fall River?)
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    I'm sorry, those are still huge, hideous and visually disruptive. No thanks.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Is "headphones" some obscure bit of transit terminology, or autocorrectese for "headhouse"? :-)
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    Last time was before the Minuteman Bikeway was built, however. Before that, you might have gotten away with a surface line partially in trench, but these days nobody in Lexington is going to want to trade the MMB for the Red Line. (I grew up there.) So it's all-tunnel or nothing. I've never...
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    MBTA Buses & Infrastructure

    Catching up with this, speaking as a parent whose kid just spent a while at Boston Children's Hospital (he's fine now), you cannot ban private vehicles from Longwood Ave. Most of the time he was there I did take the T back and forth (and was very grateful to live a single T ride away from one of...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Quoting with permission a friend's Facebook post about her 4-year-old:
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    MBTA Red Line / Blue Line Connector

    Yep. That was included in the redesign of Charles/MGH as a place to tie in the Blue Line connection.

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