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Is there a reason why GLX past West Medford needs to be grade-separated? Sure, the current GLX is grade-separated, but it's still light rail that has the theoretical advantage of running through at-grade junctions when needed. So if it's really deemed that grade-separating 4 tracks incurs...

And also because it's (hopefully) a degree of magnitude cheaper than Red-Blue, BLX to Lynn, OLX to either Roslindale* or West Roxbury, and even the somewhat comparable GLX to Porter. It's literally the low-hanging fruit. * That's probably the only one with a chance of being as cheap as GLX to...

Definitely looks much better! One final nitpick: For the bus terminus labels on northside OL and the RL Ashmont branch (+ Andrew), I'd consider aligning them towards the rapid transit lines, instead of centered with the station name. Taking northside OL for example, this would mean the right...

While we're at Franklin Park, about the only thing that bothers me from this (otherwise fantastic) map is how Grove Hall is too far from Franklin Park and too close to Nubian. But that may be a compromise for having the 23 show up nicely. I also think that while the idea of using yellow...

A quick photo of North Cambridge as I passed by there today:

Oh shoot, I thought about doing a blog series on BNRD changes, and now someone got there before me! Anyway, my comments on the post and OP's opinions disregarding the above: It's quite refreshing to see someone viewing the 86/109 situation as not just "we lose OSR from Brighton to Sullivan, so...

I actually feel that from an aesthetics standpoint, if two thin bus lines have dots that are close together at an intersection, a line is probably not required for people to realize they transfer there. Current examples on the map include Everett Sq, Medford Sq, Kane Sq, the 8/16 transfer, and...

That's an interesting point. Living on the 1 bus myself, I can attest that it's already crowded enough that it may not have the capacity to absorb would-be subway riders. On the other hand, I have often used the 1 bus from downtown Green Line or even Orange Line stations instead of doing a Red...

While I do think you have a very good point for a problem that has the potential of being misleading, I feel you're probably blowing this out of proportion. Do we have any evidence of people who were actually mislead by it? Bunker Hill Monument and USS Constitution are not on the map, and I...

This is actually elegant (my earlier comments of thin bus lines and GLE-OL's overly long parallels notwithstanding). One thing I really like is your latest treatment of bus routes in the NE quad. Like, this is way more symmetrical and organized than I imagined (despite not being geographically...

First of all, I really like this map more than I thought I would. Prominence of Buses on an Map I understand the debate and differing opinions about how prominent buses should be displayed on such a map. Two points are at play here, though: I believe it's explicitly @Riverside's intention to...

FWIW, when I was in Singapore, they were doing routine fare adjustments every couple years to catch up with inflation. (Though they also have a very detailed fare table with 20 possible fares or so, thanks to a fully distance-based fare with tap-offs on all modes.)

All door boarding is not at odds with some small card readers on the platform, though. That's exactly what Seattle does (although that's not a perfect example since they started having fare beating issues recently, to the point where they're considering adding fare gates back). (Image source)

Here's a (user-paraphrased) Reddit summary for those without paywall access: https://www.reddit.com/r/mbta/s/J41prqGE1E

For the data nerds, New York's MTA has released its subway origin-destination dataset: https://new.mta.info/article/introducing-subway-origin-destination-ridership-dataset AFAIK, no such data exists for Boston for subway stations in particular. The best analogs are BNRD origin-destination...

I had long wondered how many riders on the 117 use Revere Beach to transfer to the Blue Line as opposed to Wonderland, so I used this as an opportunity to do some data wrangling. In Fall 2022, on an average weekday: Direction Inbound (boardings) Outbound (alightings) Wonderland 300.5 335.4...

The biggest problem with this proposal may be that Medford/Tufts has limited terminal capacity, thanks to bumper blocks at the end of the station. IIRC, someone mentioned that during a past temporary construction schedule when they tried to terminate both the D and E trains at Medford/Tufts (or...

The only way may be to enlarge the gap between OL and BL (especially OL and SL3) in this area, which does align with the geography, aka Everett being a big transit desert inbetween. But this may be too late for you at this stage of the map.

So I guess that's official endorsement of battery trains... Even in the Eng era.

I don't get why people are hating on the revamped 104. In fact, it's one of my favorite routes from BNRD. A direct connection from Logan Airport to basically every major neighborhood to the north of metro Boston? That's even better than 95% of fanmade rail proposals to Logan. The specific...