Recent content by Harry Mattison

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It was a nice event, mostly focused on eliminating slow zones and decreasing headways on the existing service, not fare policy, system expansion, CR electrification, or things like that. The Secretary talked about how much she loves buses, so I hope that we will see an improved iteration of the...

Come to the WBGH "Can We Trust the T" event this evening and you can ask the Secretary and GM some of these great questions about West Station https://gbhevents.ticketbud.com/can-we-trust-the-t-9e9c4302-ae46b0bafeb2

That bus loop, and their prioritization of private transit over public transit, is ghastly. If you want to hear them explain and defend it -

Many advocates are very interested in the possibility of elevating some or all of the paths. We even worked with CBT and Perkins&Will (who very generously did an award-winning pro bono design project with us)...

We asked for a safe, low-stress bike route to the river. We asked for a well-designed Franklin Street Footbridge. We asked for a high-capacity West Station. We've been asking for things like these for 5+ years. Has nothing to do with fantasies. MassDOT making West Station worse is MassDOT's...

Exactly right. We said "please make West Station better". MassDOT made West Station worse. Now how is that moving the goal posts? Putting SFR in the river for 10 years will harm the river in big ways. A permanent boardwalk for walking & biking, not so much...

Activists asked MassDOT to improve the Harvard Flip and Wadsworth Path. No activist asked MassDOT for a 3-track West Station and 2 tracks to bypass West Station. MassDOT asked FHWA to let them "move on an build something". FHWA said: No you will do the full EIS process. So actually the next two...

We don't need to be choosing either a Cambridge St South cycletrack OR a People's Pike & Wadsworth Path. They have different functions and both make sense. Anyway, these ideas have been publicly presented and the point of tomorrow's comment deadline is to ask for alternatives to be more fully...

What's wrong with using Cambridge Street South to get to the river? It doesn't do anything to help people south of the Pike The crossing to the river is only on the north side of the street You need to cross multiple 5-lane intersections Why is a path north of Wadsworth Street that connects to...

Have you read this? https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0Mv_n6nNyOTRkZNYzRxdWZuWFF2OWlNbzdNSjA3ck5leGEw

What sort of Urban Ring solution?

You think Harvard University, owner of all the land under the highway, was going to sit back and let MassDOT's "suburban off-ramp" design get built? Or accept the huge layover yard that MassDOT initially proposed? No, I don't see a People's Pike in MassDOT's current plan. The People's Pike many...

No, MassDOT isn't "meeting six years worth of demands from activists". Why do you think they are? Do you like what MassDOT proposes for West Station?

MassDOT's plan puts Soldiers Field Road on a structure in the river, replaces 1/2 mile of riverbank with metal sheet piling, and adds fill to the river at the approaches to the SFR Bridge. Then after ~10 years MassDOT proposes to tear all that out and rebuild the shoreline in its current...