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I like the idea! I suspect you're leaving out some important demand nodes by following the utility corridor past Cambridge Street/3A instead of trying to use parts of the 128 ROW, though -- the Cummings Tradecenter at the Woburn rotary (and its adjoining multifamily developments) and the...

In case anyone's curious, a pair of transit YouTubers did a review of the Cape Flyer and what it's like traveling around the Cape by public transit only once you get to Hyannis:

It's probably political/constituent demand. The Cape is really car-brained. A lot of the discussion around the region's tourism economy revolves around "how are people going to drive here" -- something that's intensified in recent years as house prices and rents have gotten so crazy that it's...

Maybe it's just because I haven't been by the garage in the last few weeks, but I was surprised this morning to see how much they've peeled back over the station area. Hard to tell from my photo, but the middle bay still has at least two floors that haven't been demo'd, while the southern bay is...

Right now, yes, but Medford's planning process has historically been fairly ad-hoc. If that were going to continue, and development along this corridor were to rely entirely on the good graces of the loudest voices in the local Facebook groups, as it were, I can understand the T's decision...

Agreed, but a lot of the current access problems are fixable with the kind of streetscape interventions a Columbus Ave-style rebuild would entail, and which the T couldn't propose at the time of BNRD without municipal buy-in -- which they already had from Somerville City Hall when it came to...

Since this big ol' thing is now in the works in Medford... ...it seems like it'd be a highly reasonable thing for Medford, Somerville, Cambridge and Everett to get together and lobby hard for an SL7 that goes up Mystic Ave. from either Kendall or Haymarket, presumably terminating in Medford...

I can't remember if it's in the original 1947 Metropolitan Transit Recess Commission report, or one of its follow-ups in subsequent years, but one idea they floated was a Mattapan Trolley-style setup at a then-future Alewife station with lines running north through Arlington and Lexington and...

Oh, the Danbury Line... Given how subpar it is compared to the rest of Metro-North, it's funny when you see the owners of the Merritt 7 office park praise the renovated train station as a vital amenity.

What if we sped the ferries up by separating them with walls from the other river traffic, so their wakes don't disrupt the other boats? Of course, at that point, you'd have to give them guiderails so the walls don't have to be too far apart. And maybe drain the water out to ensure good contact...

FWIW, it smells like the West Station momentum is driven by a desire to avoid "another Seaport" as Harvard builds that out into another big commercial growth node over the next few generations. And given how successful biotech developments have been in Watertown, it's not necessarily an...

That makes sense with the drawbridge! It already screws up SL3 service as-is, and until recently it was pretty much unthinkable that those oil tanks could ever become obsolete and the area upstream of the bridge might ever be removed from the DPA.

Speaking of the Urban Ring, has anyone ever seen a detailed brainstorm of how you'd actually connect an rail-based routing to the Blue Line without eating the Coughlin Bypass Road? If you're ever in and around Day Square when a tractor-trailer driver gets lost and tries to go that way vs. take...

Thanks for the compliment! The biggest challenge (other than the hairpin turn you illustrate there) to routing via the farthest-north dashed line is that you'd be headed up a steep hill. From the Washington Street-Parkway intersection to the Everett Street-Parkway intersection, you're talking...

Yeah, I think I mostly doodled this as a way to reduce the amount of local truck traffic I see every time I'm on the SL3 or stuck in traffic on 1A -- traffic that's going to go up as those two trends I enumerated ramp up. You can be sure that Chelsea and Revere are going to want to let more of...

While working out something for the God Mode thread over the weekend, I got sidetracked by a realization: If you've been paying attention to some of the permitting activity for some of the various parcels along Route 1A in Revere, you can pick up the scent of two related trends: Massport could...

Putting this in the "God Mode" and not "Crazy Mode" thread as it naturally assumes a universe where we took a Parisian attitude towards heavy rail transit. Instead of continuing the Blue-Red Connector down Storrow towards Kenmore and points west, what about.....(drum roll)....turning north to...

"Revington" sure has the flavor of a caddish secondary character in a BBC murder mystery who winds up dead by the end of Act 2.

It's striking how these towers (plus the tower-on-parking-garage at Hood Park and the Union Square residential tower) are a lot more visible from random places in the region. Definitely puts the Sullivan Square/Assembly/Union Square region on the map as a "real place," as it were.

That makes sense given recession fears and the financing environment for both new biotechs and new real estate developments.