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Yeah, a lot of people in Somerville are up in arms about these changes. The 80 duplicates the GLX route, of course, but cutting out the entire Broadway corridor between Teele Square and Winter Hill? That's one of the three major east-west routes through Somerville and a lot of people live there.

That's part of the Somerville High School project. Was supposed to be a parking deck with a turf playing field on top, but I think the garage got VE'ed out. It also got significantly delayed due to asbestos contamination.

I've been seeing the signals lit up north of Ball Square as well.

Yeah, Friends of the Community Path, STEP and the other advocacy groups put a ton of pressure on the state to make the path wider, but they were all "we'd have to completely redesign it, it would cost a lot of money, tough noogies". That inbound downgrade is going to be fun and excitement on...

Hmm, or maybe you could convert it to light rail and connect it to the Transitway out to the Seaport. (Can't go to Chelsea that way though unless you build a new tunnel.) The connection would have to be 100% grade-separated through the Amtrak and MBTA maintenance yards and tunnel under the South...

One could maybe argue that South Station isn't a "non-transportation building", but of course it also has office space in it (and is about to get a lot more). But you can also access South Station from the Federal Reserve building if you work there. Kendall outbound used to be accessible from...

Last I looked, the power distribution cables were pulled to where they connect to the OCS, but hadn't been actually connected to it, in the Gilman Sq to Ball Sq stretch.

Why is it signed "Airport Station"? So nobody gets confused and thinks it's the actual airport?

The missing link I've been wondering about is the middle section of the Assabet River Rail Trail. Unfortunately, most of it is owned by Honey Pot Hill Orchards, which uses it as a service road and has said they don't want a bike path going through their orchard because people will steal their...

Just to clarify, the MCRT alongside the Fitchburg Line in Belmont is in active development. They submitted the 25% design for the section from Blanchard Rd to Belmont Center in January.

It's either that or the bridge has to be significantly elevated. Take your pick.

From the above link, wtf? In what universe does this ridiculous kludge even make sense, when the Empire Connection is already equipped with third rail? If anything they should extend the third rail to the junction with the Hudson Line, so they only have to run diesel north of Croton-Harmon.

I've brought my bike on the North Station-Seaport ferry a few times. You just hook the handlebars over the rail (or otherwise secure it) near the bow.

Right now, the 71/73 buses go in the south portal from Mount Auburn St to the upper busway, discharge passengers, go out the north portal, loop around the Common, come back in the north portal to the lower busway, pick up passengers (this is where the wrong-side door issue arises) and head out...

If you reverse the upper busway, you'll have the wrong-side door problem on both levels. Or do you mean reverse the lower one?

You can see in EGE's diagram where the original Haymarket Green Line platforms were. For a while in the early 00s, the Green Line was routed out the former Orange Line portal and up a temporary ramp shared with a Central Artery exit to the elevated section over Causeway St.

I can't figure out how a cross-harbor commuter rail tunnel would even connect to South Station. The presentation shows a 4-track station under Fort Point Channel, but then where does it go? That said, a plan for a cross-harbor tunnel to connect to the Eastern Railroad is the reason South Station...

I get frustrated with Levy's writings about the GLX, because he goes on about the ridiculous the cost is since it's in an existing ROW, like it was simply a matter of laying down tracks. Which, of course, it wasn't, and this isn't the first time I've pointed that out to him. Makes me take...

In re GLX to Rte. 16, IIRC that the reason they didn't keep the station on the embankment was because they'd have had to take down a building, I think 222 Boston Ave, to have room to separate the tracks for the platform, and curving the entire line to the south didn't have that problem. Looking...

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