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Yeah but that's not a crazy idea that requires a crayon sharpener. What's the cost per lift?

Who approves bus stop locations, the municipality?

Since we're here: - The span is 135ft when lifted (just like the other two bridges) although that is above high tide, not the current rail tracks so there is a few feet of leeway here but I'm going to napkin to 135Ft for ease. - Main Ave to the end of the station platform at Buzzards Bay is...

I hear what your saying but some of that was completely unavoidable. How do they oversee a project of which they have little in-house experience due to the novelty of the project? What type of planning should they have done to truly understand the scope of the utility nightmare under a historic...

I'm just trying to understand why you're blaming the state and I still don't think I fully understand your intent. How did the state "screw itself over"?

Here's F-Line's 2019 thoughts on this from page 146 of this very thread. Only F-Line can speak to whether it's still the current thought process but I thought it was worth mentioning because it details the challenges of the dual mode station with grade separation.

The problem here is that the ROW is destroyed at least south of the city center. If that was no object, my ideal would be to follow the 1945 plan, moving WM and Wedgemere off of regional rail, making Winchester Center a transfer station, head up into Woburn stopping at Cross Street, Woburn...

I'll probably respond to this over in crazy pitches to keep this thread centered. Having both wouldn't be the end of the world. Considering that Alewife may soon have a proposed commuter rail station as part of the redevelopment, having two relatively close node interfaces isn't terrible. I was...

This is a tough one for me to choose (outside of my vested interest living on the branch). The cost-reduction redesign precludes extension by removing the elevated station and bringing it down the ground. Yes, the momentum is there to be capitalized upon and that's really important to try and...

I agree with Ian Coss on this one that framing the big dig as massively inflated is a narrative perspective and not the reality. When he dug into the nitty gritty, it wasn't really a bunch of corruption siphoning government money but really the unknown complexities of the massive project...

Not only that, but the fact that Franklin Park doesn't touch its namesake bus stop intersection is killing me. That said, I believe @TheRatmeister said on Reddit that the parks were something they were going to work on in later drafts so that appears to be on the radar.

I guess so but they are around the corner where the foldable seats are so it's not in the view of the driver in the same way and you still can't necessarily get around the first payer. It literally looks like they installed the second reader that was intended for the rear door in the wrong spot...

Have any other bus riders noticed that both payment terminals are at the front of the bus while there are none at the back door? If this is change is supposed to facilitate all door boarding and payment then they’ve really botched it. Every bus I’ve been on so far has this issue.

Semi-disagree here: They should either use the New England Pine Tree or they should keep the one on the proposed design. The "should be able to be drawn by a child" rule is kind of making flags into the equivalent of trendy website design that will become incredibly dated. For example, I think...

The lighting bezels, the light gray/silver trim on the window instead of the charcoal, that center panel on the front, and the lack of the white paint accents are what I see as detractors. Even the gray body is also lighter on the mockup.

I don't know that all of them need to be separated, but the E line should be (D too if routed alone the Hunting Ave subway). This all does beg the question: what lines should be green? The part that arguably most lives up to the emerald necklace designation is the D line from Fenway to Brookline...

So a couple of things: Lexington is one of the good faith operators in the MBTA zoning. They are rezoning East Lexington (down the street from AH), Lexington Center, and Hartwell ave. If the urbanism movement is gaining steam, we should be trying to tie expansion to places of reasonable...

Okay, thank you. I don't agree with that myself. Lexington will not always be that away and setting up another Mattapan High Speed Line seems like a bad call given the political pushback on it's changeover shows that half-measures can become entrenched. That's what we're talking about though...

I'm out of touch on this: Why would we use RR frequency on a rapid transit line? Why would we single track the red line north of Alewife/Arlington Center?

You could argue the antecedent on this that the built form of Lexington and Arlington were centered on the gravity that the rail line provided and now everything we've done since has been a band-aid to get around its absence. That's the original resource and it connected the two cities to...