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They're advocating cut-and-cover, not TBMs. I note that they recommend sinking slurry walls to form the trench walls, which will also be the outside walls of the station, in order to minimize surface disruption. Hope they figure out how to solve the water leak problem that has plagued the Big Dig.

But if that person lives in Lexington (a town with twice the population of Bedford), if there's no Lexington Center station, from most of the town it will be faster to keep driving to Alewife than to drive the wrong way out to 128 and take the Red Line in. That's definitely the case for the...

I disagree that having both Lexington Center and 128 stops would split ridership. Nobody in Lexington Center's catchment area is going to trek out to 128 just to ride back through town, and if the extension ends at Lexington Center, there'll be a huge problem with people driving in and parking...

The Alewife tail tracks already curve around to the direction of the Minuteman in order to enable a future extension.

If you're going to extend the Red Line, it makes zero sense to extend it along a pair of highways (that includes 2 miles of one of the more congested parts of I-95) that go nowhere near population centers. Far more sensible to extend it cut-and-cover under the Minuteman to the same destination...

Not to mention, it's not a great route for bicycles because of the hill.

Can't do that, at least not without huge expense, because of the track junctions immediately adjacent to the station.

Bit of a line to take the train to the World Cup game:

The plastic thing next to the fence in the last photo? It's a handwashing station for the portapotties.

I've never been convinced that Arlington and Lexington have the population density to make RLX worthwhile.

Several bits of good news on the MCRT. Our Metro-West town meetings have been busy (all links to a public Facebook group): Hudson Town Meeting unanimously passes design funding for their stretch of the MCRT Sudbury Town Meeting...

I really like this proposal (the "Alternative C"). Though I wonder if it would be doable to add an elevated ramp from the bike lane on the overpass to the upstream side of the BU Bridge, eliminating the need for the light where the path crosses the BU Bridge traffic at grade.

In happier news: https://www.nj.com/news/2026/04/its-really-happening-128b-contract-awarded-to-drill-the-gateway-tunnel-under-the-hudson.html

Huh. That's a hugely popular driving route they're closing down, despite it being a huge PITA due to the ~5-second green interval for Mossland. I hope they've done traffic analyses to determine where the people currently going from Cedar to Beacon are going to go instead. Probably through the...

When Older Kid and I went to see the mockup, there were a few people complaining about the narrow aisles. I assumed they had to be that narrow because that's where the wheels are, but apparently they were able to shave a few inches.