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Also, you can't do Hanscom and Burlington Mall without a double back. Either Hartwell Ave on the historic ROW heading towards Bedford as a plus one or Hartwell Ave at the Route 4 Junction heading towards Middlesex ave and the Burlington Mall via the high voltage ROW are the only two 95 options...

@Charlie_mta , You've removed all Route 12 access to 290/395 and vice versa. That seems like an oversight.

I will say that the 2021 redesign really hampers future expansion of the Red/Blue Connector by moving the tail tracks to the east of the station and ending the ROW with the elevator in the way.

That's only one half of my point. I'll restate: Western, Central, and South Eastern Massachusetts are subsidized by the economy of Boston. That economy cannot function if everyone drives. Given that transit users choices (and cyclists and pedestrians) are allowing this economy to continue, car...

If your implication is that the people using the transit is more fair, I disagree. The economy of the Boston metro subsidizes the entire state and depends on the MBTA for mobility inside of the core for it to function. If you took the average weekday ridership for the MBTA in July (760,224) and...

Here's a different angle: In a Boston metro where affordability barely exists, distance-based fares essentially punish people with lower income who cannot afford to live near their destinations while offering discounts to wealthier residents. That doesn't change that longer distances are more...

It's fantastic! This is such a tiny thing maybe not even worth it: On the Roxbury Crossing Busway junction, you've reduced the size of the turns while also keeping the black thru-line. However, there are no thru-line buses (even smaller routes) so why keep the black thru-line instead of...

That's true, but only $208 million of that has been currently allocated to the MBTA; far short of what is necessary to cover the MBTA's needs. It's well documented that the MBTA is currently underfunded and has been since Forward Funding was implemented in 2000. The millionaire's tax isn't going...

Because the appeal to the legislature for necessary funds to cover all service and the opportunity to provide equity to struggling communities served by the MBTA are two separate goals. Politically, now the MBTA can use this to advocate for those necessary funds by telling the broader public...

I realize that we’re starved for housing options, but Eastern Nazarene is in the flood zone and it is guaranteed to be a continuous trouble spot in the next 15 years. It honestly should just be a park with wetlands restored to help protect that whole area from smaller storms and surges.

Is there any significant risk that the speeding up of the Braintree branch for 40mph to 50 mph with the rebuild comes from using the geometry required for double tracking the old colony lines?

From a certain perspective, the extra funding and fare-free policies on the RTAs is a step in this direction. It's not enough to be a Marshall plan, but it is something. On the other side of this coin is also a chicken and egg problem: Why would RTA's and municipal shuttles (like in Acton) be...

Any 128 Station on the Fitchburg line is going to be at the actual junction of route 20/128 as well as the crossover of the Central Mass line and the Fitchburg line. You're looking at something approximating the Weston Transfer station on one side and the development at the end of Jones Rd on...

The plot thickens:

This is a great point so I just asked. If I get a response, I'll post it.

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I asked this question to the 2.0 thread because there are two of the new readers on buses but they are both near the front but I also asked the MBTA. The official response was: Pretty, pretty lame. If I had to venture a guess as to why it probably is because they cannot afford to have people do...

I like the geographic one more, personally. The way it cuts through "Dean|Rd" is cleaner and more legible than diagonally through both Dean and Englewood. I also don't feel that the switch back and forth between 45 degrees and horizontal is bad especially because it happens elsewhere on the same...

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Does anyone know why the bus stops didn't get changed for Medford/Tufts? I took the 96 for fun(?) to get back to Ball Square and it makes no sense that they kept the old bus stops.