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A dedicated lane for the 79/350 buses to get to Alewife would make those connections even better. When I resided in Arlington, I usually avoided either of those routes in favor of the 77, since getting to Porter was time competitive with dealing with the mess of the Rt. 2 / Alewife Brook...

The highway isn't just for suburbanites. Some of us who live in the city and work in the suburbs also use the Pike. Granted, it's not the majority, but it does allow people in the city to go outside the city, not just vice-versa. That said, I agree that investing in density and transit are...

Somewhat ironically, that's the only business on that side of the street from Govt. Center to Charles Circle that I regularly patronized when I lived in the area. That said, that entire side of the street is a bit of a pedestrian wasteland with only a short stretch of retail at Charles River...

Talk about a bullet dodged! I can't even imagine what Harvard Square would look like it became a major tourist destination.

As a resident of Winchester, I would LOVE this, but I can only imagine the horrified pearl-clutching that would occur should such a thing come to pass.

I'm throwing my hat in the ring with a guess of 218 Willard Street. Looking up Leominster Packaging and Warehousing on LinkedIn leads to a company with that address. It's right on the Fitchburg Secondary and there's a small "LPW" sign on street view...

As a bit of a connoisseur of MBTA buses (grizzled 171 bus vet from back in the day) in the 93 to 90 quadrant, I'll say there's a big difference between 30 minute headways and 30 minute headways with predictable arrival times. When times are not predictable, those headways suddenly become 45-60...

IIRC, there are some random whale's tail sculptures along I-89 near Burlington, VT. Perhaps they'd be open to loaning them to the MBTA.

I currently live in Winchester and have a co-worker looking to move here. So far, every property he's put an offer on has had multiple bidders over asking price. The market's hot, and people are taking advantage. (Also, I wish the 350 bus was more predictable. There's a +- 15 minute delta at...

Speaking of pedestrian and bicycle amenities. I used to commute from Watertown to Bear Hill Road via the 71 and 70 buses wayyy back in the early 2000's. The 70 bus drops off on the Waltham side of the bridge over 128. When I started that commute, there wasn't much of a sidewalk on Bear Hill...

My twelve year old almost had another round of broken arms after ditching his bike in one of these in our neighborhood (side streets) in Winchester. Fortunately just had bruises and scrapes. When our road was repaved recently, I was pleased to see that the grates were replaced with more...

What I will keep lobbying for is GLX to Mystic Valley Parkway Woburn! --- Fixed that for you! ;)

Not going to lie. Trying to work at home while the family is here and remote schooling is going on makes me wish for some long commute in a quiet rail car. In all seriousness though, it might not be a bad option for a day or few a week kind of work where time on the train could be productive...

I'd call myself semi-casual. I've ridden from North Station to Concord and back several times, but I also have a strong aversion to street riding. I'll be coming from Winchester, so my plan would be to take the Minuteman to Alewife, and depending on how I'm feeling, either working to the river...

I plan to make the path part of my future bike commute to the Kendall Square area. I have no desire to be an "elite" bike commuter, so a more relaxing path with some interesting topography sounds great to me.

Totally agree. I was surprised by the number of people that actually do that commute. Here's info from a 2017 study: https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/documents/ec-0220.pdf 15.3% (about 100k) of NH workers commuted to MA 12% of those (12k) commute to Boston

Rebuild the rail corridor as trucks + trains, ensure connection to Seaport industry, extend to Conley, and problem solved. Yeah, I know it's not feasible or remotely likely, but I can dream, can't I?

I never lived on that side of campus, but I did take advantage of that hill for sledding many, many times. Hopefully that use won't be precluded by this construction.

Yeah, I misread it. The overhead was to support RL to Lexington & Waltham via Lexington Branch and Fitchburg ROWs from Alewife Brook Parkway and the GL would use the Fitchburg ROW between Lechmere and Alewife Brook Parkway.

I covered a lot of Google ground in my search but I do recall a doc somewhere stating an Alternative for Red Line beyond Harvard should include overhead wires to support above-ground running and Lechmere cars.