Recent content by Tallguy

So, my PhD dissertation was on Risk Perception and it's effects on Public Policy. Many people grossly overestimate the frequency of crime. I am reluctant to spend and extra 25M per station because of peoples feelings.

Do you have data to back up your claim?

I'm usually heading towards Worcester, but I have spent 90 minutes or more getting to 495 dealing with the bumper to bumper traffic. I hope your car is comfortable

Do you have any idea what parking prices will be?

Sorry, not going to happen.

I want some of what you're smoking please. 4-6 trains at once? Don't forget, with time, at least one possible trainset, if not more, is passing through. I don't, for instance, expect Alb-Spr other than as possible Alb-Bos, and any north-south service would not originate or terminate in Spr. So...

There is no world in which service to Springfield will exceed two trains per hour and probably not one where service exceeds one per hour. Four platforms?

Anyone have the new schedule they could post?

Plus there is so much development on Needham Ave of apartment dwellers that WILL want service there

Not so. There is space(barely) for 2 tracks and a walkway

It has to replace Needham CR. Trying to have their cake and eat it too triples costs

First, SCR is doing well enough that the powers that be will fight changes. But if you can give all OC slots to that branch and run GB and Plymouth as RL with batteries. The Braintree Line will have slack where you could slide in 30 minute service to each branch til you get to UMass. Send them...

And not nearly as expensive

The biggest point is that cast concrete viaducts are much, much quieter than the 100+ year old technology of the OL

Anyone know if UK subway car standards are similar to FTA ones.