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Re: T construction news That platform seems excessively narrow (and needs to be, due to the ROW it's on). But this seems like it can only be a good thing, right?

I'm thinking a potential issue is the curve needed to be completely on-alignment by the time you're threading the needle between private property and the reservation? But even that looks eminently doable with only a minor bend. Even then, we're talking the taking of a small strip of grass (well...

The station certainly does not point directly at Dicerna. I can see the argument to be made that you'd hit their utilities out back, but can we please stop with the demolition talk when it's clearly not true? Simply draw a line on the map and see that the building is at least thirty feet from a...

So there has! Unfortunately it looks like it hasn't really gone anywhere. Also talk of air rights over the station, but unless they're building the station directly under Alewife Brook Parkway this doesn't look like prime air rights territory: everything is very flat. I'd also imagine a better...

I'm actually surprised I've never heard a call for a Fitchburg Line station in the Alewife area. That's possibly me not remembering/not reading enough. But it feels like prime territory for a station with multiple commute patterns: Residents trying to get downtown by skipping the Red Line...

This is my understanding as well. I'm sourcing openrailwaymaps as my primary, but every other map I'm seeing agrees with them. I'm talking about cutting the existing tracks right after the platforms and constructing a new tunnel straight out of the station along the bike path, as my map...

I have literally no idea what you're talking about. EDIT: And it seems like there's confusion about who is proposing what here. Someone way up there proposed a new alignment out of Davis along Mass Ave and 2. I'm not saying anything about that (other than bringing it up as a point of...

I agree that sending HRT out to Waltham would be a colossal undertaking that would be unlikely to succeed. I don't think I've weighed in on the actual process yet, but I think it's one of those "three-digit years away but probably" projects. Waltham and Watertown definitely need more robust...

We've had people in this thread talking about rebuilding out of Davis. I think simply rebuilding tracks on a new alignment is reasonable compared to that. At the very most you're just lopping off tail tracks and continuing along under whatever bike path that is out to the Fitchburg ROW. This is...

Re: T construction news So basically one platform for the next thirty years until we're ready to tear it down and rebuild it as the same platform, but back on the Pike side?

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail No. Can we stop taking "We fundamentally disagree on this issue" to mean the same thing as "People that disagree with me are bad"? Yours are the posts that are far more inflammatory than theirs. This is an issue of fundamental disagreement over various...

I'm more interested in why the island platform is so much more expensive as an option. I'd think that it would be less work on all fronts. You don't need a pedestrian standing area right next to a highway, you need slightly less platform area in total. You need half the elevators and ramps. I...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Is the solution to poo-slinging itself more poo-slinging? Can we stop perpetuating such comments and get back to analysis of the project at hand? This math doesn't hold up. Ignoring People take vacations, so 52 weeks isn't accurate 20 year lifespan...

It probably has more to do with land-taking/dirt-moving than it does pouring more concrete. Room is lacking around those platforms.

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail It provides a baseline of comparison, it's not supposed to be a meaningful comparison of day-to-day costs, or to fully encapsulate the upsides and downsides of the project. In that regard it is useful as long as we acknowledge its limitations. For...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Ignoring that more than half of that bond is going towards highway projects, I agree that more money for the MBTA is a good thing. But how does spending hundreds of millions on this project help other necessary projects get funded in the future? If...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail Sidestepping how personal things are getting, I don't agree with this. Money is a finite resource, and merely by absorbing what funds it is SCR will inevitably make more difficult projects with more potential upside. Now, I still think it's a worthy...

Re: Fall River/New Bedford Commuter Rail I think the bigger issue is that even at the current price tag it's still being half-assed. Phase I means horrible travel times and bottlenecking through the OC, and is a good way to kill the ridership that the project could get if it were done properly...

Not to derail (haha) this thread any more, but do you really see Peabody being turned into Commuter rail this early? I've always been dubious of that extension because it feels like there's nowhere to go for what is essentially a slight frequency bump to Salem+limited service extension to...

Tongue-in-cheek proposal to use the proposed Tollway ROW along Chelsea Creek as Commuter Rail instead of road.