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So, a station at Church St would be about 600ft from the present rotary pattern of NC. That's about as close as you can get it to the hotel. A Fanuiel station would disrupt the express bus patterns of the Brighton 5xxs. The key is to stop thinking of the 57 as the main mover of people and, while...

And the budget bloat for stations begins. Palmer should xerox the plans from Holyoke and build the station for what the budget expects to spend on study and design

And Massport would kick in as a Logan Express node

The walkshed is non existent west and the new W Newton station would be more centered to the density. The Weston station would be more of a P&R and TOD prospect. . Wellesley Farms is over 1.25 miles west

Newton Corner needs a station but unless the hotel gets torn down the likeliest location would be to the west.

500 pax between the two station, of whom nearly 100 drive there. The western half of Auburndales walkshed is park and river. 6000 people take 5xxs. They could be feeding the RR. Several of them cover significant amounts of Washington St and your TOD folk could take the bus if they aren't that close

Might work if a Weston P&R was built in RR world. And a LRT extension from Arlington Heights to Burlington would be more sellable or even a version of those rubber tired trams that China is using...

I would move the Newtonville station east to just west of Church St, close enough to NC to count, move West Newton just west of it's present location(studied by T when station consolidation was on the plate) and move Auburndale to Weston at 128. Keeps the number of stations on this route...

And there should never be more than one pax train at a time each way, and can be timed to meet in either a triple tracked section or at a station. Single track lines support at least quarter hour service even here in North America. And significant sections of of the row were triple tracked(or...

And CSX wants Uncle to cover other things as well . I get awfully tired of companies wanting government subsidies but not willing to make concessions.

Considering that neither Amtrak or CSX is willing to pay for a damn thing....

But you could cant one of the tracks and the freight can go as slow as it wants.

The only remotely possibly feasible way would be through the old subway loop under SS tracks, although I don't know their respective elevations AND IF the foundations of the bus station and the new tower have completely obliterated the possible path. And further caveat, I am not advocating for...

So, you could retain a one seat to the airport by either a) running them up to the roof of the bus station or b)running them in the Transitway tunnel with steering guides on the wheels to allow similar speeds

Option 1 is interesting, but it would at least double the cost

The old buses were capable of automatic change, the T just refused to use it

A Fanuiel infill would help as well

But they are maxed out on capacity due to limits on bridge raising. Well, frequency, maybe not capacity

Frequency and reliability equal ridership

And RL trains cannot carry twice as many people as a BL train. 50% more is probably closer to reality.