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I guess I'm on a "Crazy Seaport Transit Pitches" theme here: I'm gonna return to an idea I've idly raised in the past, but raise it now as an honest-to-God serious proposal: realign the Red Line through the Seaport: There are two alternatives, "easy" [relatively speaking] and "hard": "Easy"...

Been meaning to reply to this for... 3 months? Anyway, hopefully better late than never! IMO, this is actually a really interesting map. More than just illustrating what the system might look like if all routes were hyper-extended, this map articulates the number of routes that each corridor is...

I have a vague memory that the Summer Street Concourse actually extends even further southeast beyond the Red Line lobby above the Red Line subway toward South Station. I wonder how far that extends? My crazy transit thought of the day is to use that concourse to extend an LRT Seaport Silver...

Cool stuff, in no particular order: One of the reasons I love maps like this is that it forces us to examine our underlying assumptions about our real transit network. For example, in your map, South Station and North Station don't exist/no longer exist, so your network doesn't have to be built...

Aw hell yeah.

Right, this is the "quiet part" lurking in the background of all of this: with a small caveat (below), a bus is going to be more effective than any "on-the-cheap" mainline option. The one caveat to that is that the Grand Junction does provide an additional (and comparatively uncongested)...

"Phase 0" describes a pre-West Station build; operations are simplified in Phase 0.5 once West Station is actually built. Boston Landing <> West Station <> Agganis Arena area: pre-West Station, a temporary connection will be required to connect the Grand Junction track (which runs directly into...

The way I see it, the future of the Grand Junction falls into 3 eras. First Era: Mainline This is the current state. All trains must be FRA-compliant, all trains must always get priority at crossings, no compromise. This is the state in which the Grand Junction will remain as long as the T...

Made a few adjustments (after which I'm definitely calling it on this iteration this map -- other stuff I want to work on too!): Adjusted bus stop placement at Nubian Still don't like how far the label is from the Silver Line stop, but alas Reworked the commuter rail lines near East...

Wow, yeah. Consider my mind changed. (Idk if he's making videos much anymore, but those tunnels sound like prime Tom Scott material.)

Yeah, I've read the Wikipedia. Most of the examples seemed to be much more "heavyweight", for longer haul journeys across the water. I was thinking about something like this: Allow passengers to (e.g.) board an LRT at South Station, which rolls on to a ferry in the Seaport (passengers...

This isn't really a "crazy transit pitch" as much as "figuring out why a crazy transit pitch won't work", but: there are ferries which carry automobiles. Could there be ferries that carry light rail cars?

Replying to this here: It really is not silly. Running the 22 to Ruggles provides direct transfers to key crosstown routes including the 47, the 8, and the aforementioned 66. Needing to transfer to the Orange Line to go 2 stops and then transfer again would suck. Rerouting via Heath St (as you...

Right. I think one of the trickier things about crayoning this quadrant is that a pretty natural corridor is SL1 + SL3... which works well as a corridor precisely because it flows naturally and doesn't have super clear demaraction points. Like, yeah, SL1 is a useful path for service; and yeah...

I don't know if I disagree with Alon about this principle in general, but I think I disagree with regard to Boston. The thing about airports is that your mode of transit -- car, rideshare, bus, train, peoplemover -- needs to bring you to your terminal, not just the airport campus. The front...

Ah, yeah, Outline Path is not something I've tried yet, so thank you for that! In that case, consider my map a political statement in favor of calling it SL4. (Between this, SL3 disappearing and then reappearing years later [City Point, Chelsea], and of course the age-old "Why is there no A...

Whoa! Thank you for taking such a detailed look! I appreciate it, and am glad it was interesting. I'll respond to some specific points below. I do want to be upfront that, you know, I do this for fun, and so some of the nitpicks you've rightly pointed out aren't ones that I'm going to spend...

I finished the revisions on my diagram and posted it on my blog. Hi-res at link, low-res screenshot here:

I really like your thought process here! (And I'm glad the blog post was interesting!) Design Center has been a thorn in my crayon maps for a while now. It has a legitimate need and demand for transit, but the space is constrained, and it really isn't "on the way" to anything else. F-Line's...

A Green Line extension from Union Square along the Minuteman ROW has sometimes seemed more fit-for-purpose for Arlington to me -- better match for the Newton-like density (though see below), and better able to interface with the surface environment with grade crossings. But, I think last time...