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I took out Wood Island because a Day Sq. station would be way more convenient. There's really nothing and no one in the immediate area of the present station as where Day Sq. is and would be a focal point for social and economic activity and therefore benefit by having a subway station right...

I see your points. Very well illustrated. Thanks for your perspective it very much helps me understand the logistics of an engineering endeavor such as this and it being is such a historical environment. I suppose most any city would be able to do something equal to this without half the...

So it sounds like the Essex St. Subway is impossible, or perhaps not worth the time, money, inconvenience. I mean it only about 7 blocks (small blocks) and I know there must be a lot of utilities that make it tough. But do you think that today in our modern times with all of our wireless...

I was feeling the same way last night.

Based on what the MTBA is, I would say their employees don't get payed well, I would say that their employees get paid extraordinarily well.

Is it because the soil is poor? Or that there is a lot of existing street traffic? I'm only contemplating this kind of stuff. I'm not urban planner yet. But from what I can understand only now, is that MBTA employees get paid more than anyone else in their shoes in other cities. I might be...

Also, Living in SF for a little bit gave me the idea to portray the GL this way. It's basically the MUNI metro style *sort of* against a true rapid transit system...

It does look the cleanest, but after the fact that I thought it would be best allocated to that route, this map sort of came about naturally. If there is a reason to reallocate the C-line to another place I would like some feedback. I haven't seen any TransitMaps from Tumblr. I used Adobe...

A-Line should be good to go soon, once the baby boomers die off, there should be no more regressive NIMBYs

Thanks dude! I think that this may be the most logical way to go about expansion. Seeing that the expansion would be somewhat minimal. It's more of a reconfiguration based on implemented expansion (GLX) and some expansion itself. -COMM AVE Subway is a major overhaul, of course. Way worth...

Somewhat updated.. I'm betting that an Essex St. Subway could be built. Get rid of the MBTA unions. Period. Everything could happen.... without the unions.....

Thanks for the feedback, It's very appreciated. I will most definitely be considering these things. Any collaboration would be awesome. I like to bounce ideas off anyone interested in this kinda stuff!

You think it may be because of labor union costs?

Here is a more geographically accurate map I had made regarding the other "public" map. It's not completely updated so it does not exactly correspond to the public map but here it is so far.

Oops, I sure did misspell those. I was thinking the restored Arborway E-Line would terminate at the roundabout where 203 and Centre St. meet. Seeing that there is a roundabout, I figured a Light Rail could "round-a-bout"!

Interesting! I did not know that the Red Line was to go to Arlington originally. I wonder what the consensus is now among Arlington residents about if the Red Line was to reach them. Less people off the road is the goal, I think.

Matthew, Good eye on the Chestnut Hill thing. I need to learn more about what the situation to Arlington would be like - Never considered it before, but I would like to check into it (any ideas?), Lynn would most def be a good idea, but for whatever reason I didn't incorporate it into this...

Yea, I'm not sure how to upload bigger files and or better pictures. Once I know how I can post some better stuff.

I was thinking that most of an urban ring subway route could be done with cut/cover. There are only a few places I think that deep bore would be necessary one of which is under Harvard Station in Cambridge where apparently it is possible to deep bore. Now the rest could be cut/cover down Harvard...