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Given the difficulty of finding a parallel alignment for a new bridge without eminent domain-ing 5 blocks of Downtown Chelsea, I think there is at least a 15% chance that a tunnel emerges as the preferred alternative; unlikely but not outlandish. No way that the existing structure isn't retained...

Inner Haverhill line is closing for a month starting Saturday…

I meant that as a tongue and cheek play on the the ad, except removing the trail and (re)extending the tracks to Woods Hole.

Pull up the Shining Sea Bikeway The Falmouth Secondary is the key to completing 70 miles of uninterrupted, multi-use rail from Boston to the Steamship Authority, which will be within a 15 min bike ride for 2.5 Million residences… /s but not really

The Sagamore has a higher ADT, which makes sense since its on the route from metro Boston and connects grade separated to the midcape highway, which is the primary transportation artery of the entire cape. Bourne only gets you to Woods hole on the cape side and the congestion from the rotary...

🤦‍♂️ but maybe for the best long term? With an air rights development, l dont see how any GLX to porter gets constructed either above or below the CR….

RE: Porter, instead of going under the CR for the segment where the ROW necks down, what about going elevated above? Seems much less impactful to CR ops during construction in addition to likely being much cheaper. If the GL could cross Beacon St at grade on the road bridge (I’m assuming the...

While l agree massive parking facilities next to transit isn't the greatest land use, l think the occupancy rates dont prove that point. Lower overall ridership (esp off peak) is the tradeoff when parking rather than dense land use is placed next to transit. If the service is better than the...

If we're looking at NSRL 2.0, hopefully the single track bottleneck on the OC lines would have been eliminated by then, but if not, feeding Rockburyport and Reading through the OC would kill the headways on those lines North of town. I think there would also have to be a connection at Sully...

Worst case, a high level single span truss would fit within all site constraints; not obstructing marine and aeronautical traffic while being able to support LRV live loading since, well thats whats there when the Chelsea St bridge is open. 😂

The viaduct is about to get a full rehab, but I’d imagine it would be much easier to cut and cover under the bypass Rd alignment regardless of what viaduct structure is there when the UR gets built. Friction piles or spread footings both don’t like giant trenches right next to them. Even...

Are you referring to the merge onto Storrow WB itself or the lane reduction on the ramp? If the former, that merge is proposed to get a full length parallel acceleration lane as opposed to the ‘lol hope you have a V6’ entrance thats there now.

Only speaking for myself here, but my point was more that the bus/ RT component of the T overall is borderline unusable (and very much trending worse), and how that creates additional challenges both in the political sphere to reducing car dependency and to the long term health of the urban core...

Not 100% sure about that. The addition of the fourth leg to the boylston intersection plus the tightly spaced right/left weave on Comm Ave EB telegraphs LOS F without even seeing the volumes. The new signal on the overpass probably won’t operate horrible, but its inclusion is an explicit choice...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/29/arts/historic-new-england-plans-major-expansion/ Historic New England is proposing “Mass MoCa” North in two mill buildings located just next to the CR stop.

Hard agree. There’s also the equity component to look at with congestion pricing. Because of our aversion to densify around transit and/or in the inner core, so many working class and blue collar folks have been priced out to the outer burbs or the gateway cities of Lynn, Brockton, ect… The...

I was running off the reply that stated it was the full length of the branch, glad it’s only 200’. My general sentiment remains the same however since this is more a case of the straw that broke my mental camel’s back. Don’t blame you if you thought I wanted to “burn it all down over one...

Having a hard time putting to words how hopeless this makes me feel. People in this community (myself included) have been beating the drum on the need for more TOD, road diets, ect… while snickering at the outdated notions of the parking minimum crowd. With service this bad on a brand new line...

Dont see why the T couldn’t operate it as two bidirectional tracks and have trains arrive and depart from both platforms like at Oak Grove, Alewife, ect. It’s annoying that trains could leave from either level, but isn’t directing passengers to the right platform what the T ambassadors are...