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Like it or not, roads are useful for moving people and goods from one place to another, and Mass Ave and Main St are important corridors for doing so as they connect to 2 of the 3 river crossings between Allston and Downtown. Maybe (and this is still a big maybe) in some fantasy land you could...

That's fair, I wasn't aware of that project. If working around their power lines to build elevated supports isn't possible (or more likely, not cost effective) then Albany St could maybe work, but it gets quite narrow. It would probably fit, but probably with no more than 10ft between the trains...

The solution to this problem that @Badusername proposed would be to basically just avoid it entirely by running the elevated across the MIT visitor lot and then running above Vassar St, then rejoining the Grand Junction ROW somewhere after crossing Main St, probably next to Draper since the...

I'm just going to restate what @Badusername said in the other thread because I don't think we actually talked about the premise enough. Could you run an elevated rail line along the Grand Junction, or more specifically, could you run an elevated rail line above Vassar St where that's definitely...

We've been discussing it a bit in the I-90/West Station thread, not really sure that's the best place for it but whatever. It's... imperfect. It very much seems like they really want Commuter Rail service and the feasibility and mode analysis aspects were somewhat reverse-engineered to support...

Yeah it's not surprising the official map looks like this.They've done something more similar to your map with the double dots at Bellingham Sq (albeit without the walking dashes), whereas I went for the simplified option that just lies a little bit. But my god even that took take ages to get...

Another thing they completely neglected is station siting. They mention long platforms being a con to RER but then completely ignore that for the rest of the study, I have no idea where you could both build an 800ft or whatever platform, while also building the station somewhere that most...

Quick Dorchester revision because I can't help myself

There could be, sure. You'd either want small batteries for loading/unloading or overhead lines that can be energized when the ferry is docked for power. But ferries are surprisingly expensive to operate (not to mention slow) and so unless you could use a cable or electric ferry, a bridge/tunnel...

but how would you see the impractically shaped dorm building then? More seriously, if we accept "That bit of Vassar St gets no sunlight now" as an acceptable compromise, that could work. So then the question is, would Cambridge and MIT accept that? Because if not the only possible way to make...

They have a pretty heavy space penalty given how short the trip is. Many people going to the airport are only on for 7 or 8 minutes from state or Govy.

It feels like they're overly concerned with North Shore through traffic from Lynn and Revere, which despite making up less than 1/5 of projected ridership seemed to hold significant sway in the mode choice (which happened quite early on in the study, I must say). They also seem quite dismissive...

Mainly the 47, which is an important crosstown route now and even more with the BNRD. That's presumably why the 22 ends at Brookline Ave rather than Brookline Village.

No it doesn't. It turns onto Tremont St, paralleling the 66, and then terminates with a short loop by Brookline Ave.

...which is why the BNRD sends the 22 to LMA.

A little while ago now I made a few changes and fixed a couple mistakes. Changelog: New non-blurry See Say app icon Escalator icon and Transit Police logo in the legend Bold test title Cut back parks further (No SW Corridor, Magazine Beach, or Millennium Park) 9 now has its inbound and outbound...

If you're willing to accept a flat junction and lefthand running for local trains, relatively easy actually. Two island platforms at Readville, roughly in the current location, with the tracks from West to East being: Franklin & Providence Local Inbound | Franklin and Providence local outbound...

Probably, although likely not that far off. Logan->North Station nonstop via Chelsea would be about 10 minutes, let's say 12 to Aquarium. BL is 5 minutes between Aquarium and Airport, so with with an average of let's say a 4 minute connection at Airport station plus a 5 minute APM ride, that's...

quick someone dig up Le Corbusier

The problem is that for this to be true, Park and Rides need to be accessible by other means of transport. And, largely by definition, they're not. If you have a large parking lot or garage you need a lot of road capacity and a highway connection for that rush hour traffic, and even ignoring...