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The parks have been a tricky balance to get right. My first version included way too many, and I've since cut back to what I consider the essentials, but even this current version still includes the Mt Auburn Cemetery which is obviously unlike the others, I just think it's a nice anchor to that...

If we're doing that maybe we should use the somehow even shabbier Stone Zoo.

You're right, that is a "lie" on this map. It's done to minimize the overlap with text, and the official map makes the same tradeoff. (Although it lies way more about the location of Boston Landing, I've kept it closer to its actual location.)

Quick change to match the new "Regional Rail" change turned into a bigger update with thicker lines, which was surprisingly difficult, actually. As always I'm sure this added a few mistakes, I think I got most of them but something or other has surely slipped through.

On some other thread I did the math and with each person receiving a 100k per year salary you basically need to convince like 1/3 of non-monthly pass riders just on GLX to pay. It's almost certainly worth it.

The problem is that you can't evenly split the system into grade-separated/street operations. GLX to Boylston is easy, convert the outer tracks and turn all A/B/C trains at Park St. But then what? That would leave trains to Riverside and Needham via Huntington, but also any lines to Nubian and...

There's a few 60m trams on the market now, but low-floor vehicles reduce capacity even more than the dead-space, so unless you're working with a subway-surface arrangement with a lot of branches like Boston, Philly, or San Francisco you should aim for high-floor vehicles and higher frequencies...

I can imagine. I flew out of the new gates last time I was at Logan and getting from the old security to the new gates took ages, almost as bad as Schiphol.

It seems like they're constrained by the requirement to be extra bendy.

I think any branch except E can handle single Type 10s currently, minus accessibility problems.

Yeah no idea what's up with that. Seems like you'd want to choose Health St to emphasize that they'll be coming to the E branch.

More interestingly, the line about new accessibility measures for buses is intriguing. Could that mean we finally stop pretending all the Silver Line stops where the buses could crouch down and extend a ramp are as accessible as level boarding?

sigh, time to change the map again.

Which then completely nullifies their argument about the value of through-service to Salem and Worcester.

Well no, because they already exist. It's in Roxbury, it's hardly a ghost town. We don't expect Fenway Park to be surrounded by new housing and a year-round entertainment zone. It's busy on game days, and not most of the year, and that's fine because that's what it's designed to do. Not every...

How is it any worse than Everett? Both sites would be primarily connected to public transport via a busway that connects to a nearby Orange Line station. That would be SL3X or the 109 to Sullivan in the case of Everett, or the 22 to Jackson Sq in the case of White Stadium.

BEMUs do have the additional factor of battery replacement. It doesn't seem like it's that bad, around $150k in batteries every 7 years isn't a massive deal, but it's not nothing, and depending on how complicated the swap is, labor costs could get pretty high. That seems possible, but I don't...

So now the question is, how close can you get to that with just DMUs? Apparently the bi-mode class 755s FLIRTs in the UK can do 0.9m/s^2. The Stadler Winks also seem seem promising (If a bit short) but I can't find hard numbers on those. If you can get 90% of the way there at a fraction of the...

Except you don't need to. The ROW is wide enough to support one light rail track, the existing bikeway, and some strategically placed passing loops. The same reason Fall River and New Bedford didn't reject SCR Phase 1 to wait for Phase 2. The cost of a heavy rail line is prohibitively...

That's still a long ways off from heavy rail density though, and when a significantly cheaper option (LRT dinky or better bus service) also exists, it's pretty difficult to justify. It's 3 miles and 6 grade crossings for one station that would (in a perfect world) end up with ridership similar...