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DCR will never, ever go for a CR stop at Walden Pond. The place has serious erosion problems from overuse as it is, and because the stop would be on the other side of the pond from the beach, a CR stop would make the problem much worse.

It's important to remember that the NSRL itself requires electrification, because diesel trains won't be able to handle the required grades. So before the NSRL can open, at least the lines that are slated to run through will have to be electrified.

And yet somehow people "lollygagging" on road drawbridges that have sidewalks doesn't seem to be much of a problem, at least in my experience. Generally when people see the flashing lights and hear the horns they get off the bridge right smart.

I assume that's a monitor for the menu.

I assume that's a software company with "HELLO WORLD\0" in the window, properly null-terminated.

Kind of annoyed that they're not doing anything about the dangerous crossover between the Main St to I-93 ramp and MA16 westbound, behind the police station.

Seriously?! How is it even possible to screw up something that basic?

As a fellow fan of deadpan sarcasm, I salute you, sir.

I know the Lexington Chief of Police has testified to this effect more than once. For that matter, I grew up there, and when the MMB went in a lot of the abutters put up fences between the path and their backyards. Within a few years, most of those fences had gates installed in them.

I'm having trouble making sense of this. Is this the Green Line station or is it the mess of former track alignments between Haymarket and North Station? If you click through to the original, it has a higher-resolution version.

That's great, I'm looking forward to seeing it. I was sort of half-assedly working on something like this a while ago, basically cleaning up the MassGIS railroads data set, but didn't get very far.

Those two tracks would have to be used for the Urban Ring station. See my analysis of this here, map here.

The problem here is that Urban Ring will have to eat one of the Orange Line's track locations, forcing OL to move over one and leave no room for a CR platform. Remember that the track locations cannot be moved, because of the supports for the elevated highway, and the corridor can't be widened...

Apropos of gaps in rail trails, Belmont Citizens Forum is out with a detailed article on the plans for Phase 2 of the Belmont Community Path (their stretch of the MCRT).

OSR? Google is failing me.

Well, that would be irritating. Battleship Cove (the museum) has poor visitation as museum ships go, because there's basically nothing else to see or do in Fall River other than Lizzie Borden's house. Having an eponymous commuter rail station right there certainly couldn't hurt.

Isn't the last stop on the Fall River line supposed to be Battleship Cove, not Fall River Depot? (And why is it called that instead of plain old Fall River?)

I'm sorry, those are still huge, hideous and visually disruptive. No thanks.

Is "headphones" some obscure bit of transit terminology, or autocorrectese for "headhouse"? :-)

Last time was before the Minuteman Bikeway was built, however. Before that, you might have gotten away with a surface line partially in trench, but these days nobody in Lexington is going to want to trade the MMB for the Red Line. (I grew up there.) So it's all-tunnel or nothing. I've never...