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I just picked in between because it sounded good. The main point is that I don’t see it making much sense, on its own, to have bike/pedestrian traffic following rte 3/6 and 25/28, where both are divided highways, and mostly controlled access (28 is a bit of a hybrid at that point).

I can see an issue with so explicitly making this an issue for specific ethnic groups common in just the specific neighborhoods in question. As a pilot program, fine, but if they’re going to do this, they should roll it out to the entire system.

I know it won’t happen, but from a purely non-motor vehicle perspective, I’d prefer a pedestrian/bike-only bridge in between the two highway bridges, to keep the highway traffic as far away from cyclists and pedestrians as possible.

About time, its supposed to have been starting this spring, anyway.

Rail is nice, but you can't rely on that for the primary means of connection with an entire peninsula.

It all looks very nice. I’m sure a few stories will get chopped off all of it, but great to see this level of development. I’ve been saying for years that the contrast between one side of Hancock and the other is just begging for redevelopment. Kinda sad to be moving out soon.

Depends on your definition. But having just sold a townhouse in Quincy last month (presuming fate has no surprises in store for us), I can say that we missed the absolute peak of demand by a couple months. Still got a good price, but do kinda wish our realtor had kicked things into high gear a...

Huh, I just assumed it didn’t go down to Providence at all, for reasons. This is great! A pitch so reasonable, they didn’t just do it in the past, but they kept doing it!

I was actually thinking strictly for events at Gillette. Anyone who wants to beat the traffic going north has the option, but going south, they don’t.

So, this has probably already been discussed plenty of times - with F-List explaining why its a bad idea. But I’ll ask anyway: could we extend service south from Foxboro, down to Mansfield and maybe as far south as Providence?

A question rather than a pitch: what could be done to improve transit on Cape Cod - with an emphasis on making tourists less of a traffic nightmare?

Thanks (as well to @Arlington and @BostonTrainGuy ). For a clarification regarding freight (or commuter!), I meant across Amtrak, not just on the NEC.

Two questions primarily for @F-Line to Dudley (but anyone else can certainly chime in!), and I’m sure he’s already written a short novel on these exact matters, so just a link to any such previous answers is more than enough: - What are the easiest ways the Acela could shave time off its runs...

I meant for the theoretical US maglev line.

Well, this is a discussion of future tech, so it is not unreasonable to imagine various costs coming down. That aside, do you happen to have projected ridership?

I would certainly count underground stations as a tunneling cost, but I’m surprised at how high the earthquake measures drive up the tunnel costs.

Looks like 1.6 trillion yen in tunnel costs, if I’m reading that right? So, if we don’t account for overruns (which may or may not be tunnel related), we’re looking at about 33% of the construction costs and 29% of the total cost. Very interesting. I’m not surprised that it is so large (I...

Probably not the best thread for this, but it certainly is 'other people's rail. I meant to share this video when I first saw it, because it has an interesting take on how to connect two disparate train systems (basically how to get the NSRL done). I don't think it is particularly applicable for...

Any chance you've got any good materials on the cost breakdown on the Shinkansen line? Basically, the question I'm interested in, in this case, is what percent of the cost is the tunneling, and what percent is everything else (and, as an ancillary question, how important reducing the cost of...

I'm aware of those other problems, which is why I'm just focused on ROW here. I think it is a very non-negligible problem for any network that is effectively going to be entirely isolated and built from scratch from the existing rail network.