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Would the building be designed to allow for adding a couple stories in the future? Would certainly be nice.

But the OL doesn't go to Longwood. That's what we're taking about here. People coming from Dorchester and Roxbury going to Longwood. The OL doesn't help these people. These people are reliant on the 22/23/28+47/CT2 or the BNRD 22/28. Okay, so do the 22, 23, and 28. Peak crowding on the 23/28 is...

But both of those have regular service to Roxbury Crossing, so if it's fine for 22 riders to transfer onto the OL to get from Jackson Sq to Roxbury Crossing or Ruggles then I don't see why it's not fine for 66 riders to do the same in reverse. This also ignores: The fact that Jackson Sq or...

Is that where JP residents are actually going though? That would be a useful connection for people going from Roxbury to the VA but it's not going to do much for JP. Also any route that the 22 would reasonably take would just barely skirt the edge of JP. For a big chunk of Washington Park, yeah...

Compared to the existing 64, that's not a lot of time savings. What if there was a south-side EZRide (or equivalent MBTA or even Keolis operated bus) service? Start at Boston Landing, boarding right at the curb, make a couple stops at Harvard's Allston campus, then non-stop on Western Ave to...

Are you trying to argue that the 47 isn't an important crosstown route? Because the ridership figures definitely don't agree with you there. If anything the stretch over the BU bridge is the most important, with incredibly high peak loads, even higher than the 1 or 66 at their busiest.

The only way to do it as a tunnel would be to essentially build 1/3 of NSRL, so that means turning this from a $1.2 billion project into a $5 billion one, plus committing to electrify all the north-side CR lines.

Didn't fix Readville or the missing D branch accessibility symbols that mean this map will literally never be accurate while they were at it but maybe that was expecting too much.

I mean ultimately we're debating semantics here. It's a lot, like a significant fraction of all VMT in Massachusetts a lot, no matter what number we use, whether it's the low 20,000 trips per day or the high 100k trips per day.

This document suggests that of the 42 million annual passengers in 2019, 32% came by private automobile, of which the average occupancy (I'm assuming we're only counting airport passengers in that number since Rideshare apps is only 1.6) was 1.6 people. So 42 million passengers, divided by 365...

Given that removing those grade crossings would also involve entirely removing the new Chelsea station, I don't think there are any at the moment. Some grade A lack of foresight with that design. Again, just to restate it, 20 THOUSAND. That's how many private vehicles make the trip to Logan...

We're talking about two separate ideas here. Either you could have an at-grade, low floor light rail line, potentially linking up to the GLX on the northern side, with simple surface stations and TSP to manage grade-crossings. The line would probably operate with 8-10 minute headways. This...

Elevating the line lets you do a few things that a line dealing with grade crossings just can't do: Avoid drivers whining about TSP (minor) Save about 2 minutes from the trip, as you mentioned (also minor) Improve reliability through not having to deal with drivers, well known for being morons...

Here's an upload of the proper map, courtesy of mbtagifts More things I dislike about this map that I've just noticed: A mistake, nobody is immune: Readville has a stray dot Why does Ashmont not get a terminus icon? Are we back to pretending the Mattapan Line is an extension of the RL? Why...

The elevated Vancouver Surrey-Langley Skytrain project is currently costing about $300 USD million per km, I wouldn't be so sure. Regardless though, it's still very cheap for what we'd be getting. You may run into an issue with finding yard space if you only build the inner portion. You'd need...

Probably very, but they're there now. So would it be cheaper to demolish them, or work around them? If an El over Albany St is feasible, then it's probably cheaper just to work around them. Let's see if I can get in before @F-Line to Dudley. LRT (Or BRT) that isn't grade separated would really...

Yeah the directional arrows, station blobs, Amtrak symbols, and some (but not all, looks like poor layering discipline) of the black bus lines are all missing. @HelloBostonHi where did you get the PDF from btw?

Let's say 2x that for the elevated sections, 5x for the cutting sections, and 10x for the short tunneled bits. That would put the total cost for the whole Waltham-Sullivan line at around $5 billion. So for about 1.5 South Coast Rails we could get a whole new subway line.

You probably exported in RGB instead of CMYK or vice-versa. I tried opening in Illustrator but they actually remembered to flatten it for release this time so I couldn't just un-hide the station blobs. Still don't like the new map, but the 3D diagrams are super helpful.

Yeah it was really stupid. For once I really don't think people actually have any objections to the project as a concept, even the location, provided the asbestos is handled well. If they were to tent and vent as the Cambridge law requires, I think basically everyone would be happy with that and...