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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    I ran into this a few weeks ago, when I was going to North Station to take the Orange Line outbound. The train stopped at Science Park, with another one ahead of it, and the driver told us to get on the train ahead and that it was leaving in 7 minutes. I got off and walked to North Station...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    I took a spin down to the Cambridge Crossing REI yesterday. I'd poached nearly all of the path between Lowell St and Gilman Square at one point or another, but it was great to finally ride the whole thing. A few notes: I'm used to bike paths being flat, since they're usually repurposed railroad...
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    Commuter Rail to New Hampshire?

    Oh, rail service to Lincoln NH would be so nice (assuming it didn't take 4 hours, which is likely). Assuming the ski areas and Appalachian Mountain Club ran shuttles for skiers and hikers respectively, of course. (AMC does run a hiker shuttle that stops at the Lincoln bus station, but only twice...
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    MBTA "Transformation" (Green Line, Red Line, & Orange Line Transformation Projects)

    Might have to tunnel anyway. River St doesn't look anywhere near wide enough for a dedicated reservation, and we all know how fond the T is of street running.
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Xfinity Center is a fine venue in itself, but a nightmare to get to and a worse one to get out of. When I used to go to concerts there (back when it was still Great Woods), I found that the only way to avoid sitting in the traffic jam of everyone exiting for a full hour was to get over towards...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    Although, that single track down the middle of the highway does occasionally provide for awesome sights like this one.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    I walk past that section nearly every morning and there is always work being done on it.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    There's a regular countdown sign outside the College Ave entrance to Davis that used to give arrival times for the trains, but they repurposed it for the buses.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    There's a BlueBikes stand across Broadway at the foot of the bridge.
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    Infrastructure to Nowhere (The Vestigial Infrastructure Thread)

    If there were stations, they were probably from the Springfield, Athol and Northeastern, which was mostly inundated by the reservoir.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    Thanks for the photos. My high school student is really looking forward to that stairway opening so they don't have to walk all the way around the school to get in. They did find the bottom-level exit door that's right by the station, but you can't go in that way.
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    Better MBTA Station Names

    But only for the Orange Line. Rename the Red Line part back to Washington and our evil plan will be complete.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    They were running what felt like full speed between Ball Square and Gilman Square this morning. Got to experience it twice because we got to the station before I noticed my younger son had forgotten his backpack. So he didn't validate because guess where his card was.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    According to the story, Ashkenazy has promised that the down escalator will be fixed within 48 hours, and the up escalator within 2 weeks. If I might make the tiniest little suggestion... once the down escalator is fixed, how about running it going UP?
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    Freight and General New England RR News

    It would, except that the 21st Amendment permitted the states to regulate the importation of alcohol.
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    The BFRT is really pretty. (Unlike the MCRT through Weston and Wayland, which is marred by the power line.) I have an insane plan of one day taking the Downeaster to Exeter and riding the Rockingham and Salem rail trails 45 miles to Lawrence, then taking the commuter rail back. And the Franconia...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

    The Tremont Street tunnel is much too small for the clearances required by buses, IIRC.
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    Northern Avenue Bridge Fort Point Channel

    Unpopular opinion: the Northern Avenue Bridge was ugly the day it was built. No idea why so much importance is attached to preserving it.
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    Better MBTA Station Names

    I'd definitely vote for renaming Aquarium to Long Wharf. Long Wharf has been there for almost 400 years, it should have a station named after it.
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    Commuter Rail to New Hampshire?

    Speaking as someone who drives up to the White Mountains regularly, for both hiking and skiing, this sounds lovely but I can't imagine it actually working. First, there's no way you can make the old White Mountain Division even remotely time-competitive with I-93, and that matters for people...

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