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Sure, and I came to the same conclusion here. But the proposal I'm referring to is to repurpose the entire length of the Yard 10 lead, from East Somerville to Sullivan, as LRT.

Interesting set of proposals. There's one big problem with repurposing the Yard 10 lead for GJ light rail: right now that's the freight connection from the Lowell Line to the other northside lines. So your GJ branch would have to be elevated above it, then ramp down after the (former) wye to get...

TransitMatters takes the T to task over the Widett Circle layover yard proposal. https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/mbtas-widett-plans-dont-make-sense/

Is there a plan for what the intersection of the two trails is going to look like? I really hope it's a rotary with the old diamond in its original location in the middle.

Yes, but the work being done here is on the MCRT.

Might be primer?

Designate US3 and the Everett Turnpike, from Burlington to Hooksett, as I-293, and redesignate the leftover bit of I-293 as I-193 (or just NH101).

I don't know why it didn't even occur to me to tell you about the secure bike room in the garage; I used it all the time when I worked in one of those buildings. Though it wouldn't have helped you much since I've forgotten the code (and they've probably changed it).

I've seen a proposal (probably here) for a NSRL North Station roughly between the Green/Orange North Station and Haymarket. So you could still connect to North Station proper (albeit with kind of a long walk) but be closer to downtown at the other end.

An under-harbor tunnel connecting from South Station to the Eastern ROW was actually the original plan, it's why South Station is located where it is. Which doesn't mean it's a good idea now.

[yanked from other thread] The article says the new cars "would run on routes like the California Zephyr between Chicago and San Francisco and the Cardinal between New York and Chicago". Does that mean they're looking at replacing both the single-deck and double-deck fleet, or did the article...

Whether or not any of these alignments were a good idea, it is undeniable that trying to travel east-west across northern New England is a huge pain in the ass.

If all goes to plan, one day you'll be able to ride from Lechmere all the way to Northampton. And from there to New Haven if you're feeling really adventurous.

I took my kid to the Aquarium yesterday, and it looked like not one single map that was not actually on the GLX was updated. That's just inexcusable.

I don't see how that could work. It's a narrow, dead-end street with residences right up to the sound wall; there's no place to put the stairs and elevators that would be needed to get over the commuter rail and outbound GLX tracks, unless you take part of 44 Granville Ave's large side yard.

I recall there were the old-school horizontally-oriented spider maps without the Old Colony lines still up in various places for literally decades after Old Colony service was restored. Baffles my why the T hasn't fixed this problem. It's not like they're opening new stations or expansions every...

So now that they've finally built this thing, we can start complaining about it, right? I rode with my older son to Somerville High School, after we waited at least 15 minutes for a train, and when I got back to the Gilman Square station I'd just missed one and the next one wasn't for 12...

Big crowd at Ball Square this morning. Turned out nearly all of them were just there for the occasion and the platform was not particularly crowded.

The Protect Sudbury ghouls are at it again trying to kill the MCRT; this time they somehow managed to dragoon Warren and Markey into asking the STB to review the status of the corridor. A Sudbury selectman and the attorney for MassBike et. al. had things to say about this.

That's GLXX. Get it right. :-)