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I have more thoughts I might share later, but the other big piece (in my opinion) is the question of grade-separation. With light rail, you have some flexibility for things like grade crossings at streets and even sometimes street-running. With heavy rail, you have no wiggle room at all...

Full list of service changes here. Maybe I'm feeling sentimental today, but I was surprised at how happy I was to hear about the 30 minute headways on the Fairmount Line. The Indigo Line concept has been around for something like 20 or 30 years, and, like, we've actually gotten amazingly close...

Hello and welcome! Well, let me ask you this: what benefits do you see to converting the Green Line to heavy rail? (I of course have my own ideas but would love to talk about your thoughts specifically!)

Mind if I ask what you were using before? (I myself have used Paint.NET for many years now, for better or worse.)

You're totally right about turning the Southwest Corridor diagonal, I think that would work. Yes, I wanted to avoid diagonal text at all costs, and yeah, I was worried about the streetcar lines looking messy so did try to focus on making them clean. But, if I turn the Southwest Corridor diagonal...

I finally made a map in Illustrator! (Which is truly embarrasing to say, but still!) There are actually three versions of this map, presented and discussed on my blog. Aesthetically, I think I like this one the best. The thick vs thin purple lines create a good visual effect delineating...

Well, it's certainly no longer a shitpost, but I now offer not one, not two, but three versions of the map I described upthread, of a system I've called the Boston Metropolitatn Railway. Full versions (and background and explanation) on my blog. I'm gonna write a separate blog post...

Very cool! I've been working on a diagram version of the original map I described, so I'll use this opportunity to tease that:

Just want to say that I think this is a super interesting idea and I hope to come back and comment on it further!

Yeah, this is one of my favorite routes to crayon, actually. The potential for a "Brickbottom Bypass" opens up interesting possibilities such as a Porter <> Sullivan service. Oh awesome! I didn't want to arrogantly presume :) I'm particularly appreciative because I actually started to draw a...

^ I think it’s really interesting what happens to the Orange Line corridor in this concept. The branching on the southern end is modestly parsimonious in terms of decreasing frequencies against decreasing density; the northern end a bit less so, giving that Malden Center is currently a major bus...

Been a hectic day but here is my blogpost: https://railsroadsriverside.com/the-long-lasting-impact-of-the-transit-land-grab-in-boston/ Key points: I argue that the Cambridge Subway, the Washington St El, and the East Boston Tunnel provide illustrative examples.

^ This is an excellent analysis. I've been drafting a blog post on this, so I'm gonna see if I can finish that up first and then I'll add more comments after. But, one of the tl;dr's here IMO: the underserved areas highlighted on your map overlap remarkably with the shorelines and existing...

I agree that that is an intermediate option -- tbh I tried to articulate something like that but couldn't put it as succinctly as you did. In any case, though, in that scenario my first thought would be to look at triple (if not quad) tracking the mainline in strategic locations, with the aim of...

I think if the Blue Line is going to be extended beyond West Station (or Boston Landing), it should be TBM at least under the 57. I'm more agnostic about what happens west of Newton Corner. The way I see it, there are two possibilities: A) high frequency Regional Rail service sees explosive...