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Riverway Island/Kent Square/Aspinwall/Francis St/Netherlands: a new infill for Longwood I've referenced this idea sporadically over the last couple of years, and in fact it isn't even originally mine. @davem quietly included it on his crayon map over ten years ago! But in any case, this is a...

Apparently I've been sleeping on this thread for several months. These are both really cool ideas!

That’s why I usually do, unfortunately.

South Coast Rail is nearly complete. IIRC, the vast majority of the remaining timeline is devoted to testing, not construction. Building it and then not using it would be seen as a reckless irresponsible waste of taxpayer money, which is exactly the rhetoric that has animated the Republican...

I think this is spot on, and maybe has broader implications (though I need to chew on that a little bit further to figure out what those implications actually are). As a thought exercise, I doctored a map of Cambridge, bisected by a river (canal) where Mass Ave + Main St are today, with...

Thanks, glad it looks compelling to you! I actually think it might do better on equity grounds than some projects. People from all over the region work in the Seaport, so the benefits would be spread across multiple communities. Compare, for example, to an RLX to Arlington, which "only"...

Great points. But wouldn't the "hard" option also address these needs? But to your point, these development plans would definitely make the "easy" option all the more alluring. The walkshed point is a good one, and does make me wonder about a pedestrian tunnel under the Channel from the Red...

That's hilarious.

I guess I'm on a "Crazy Seaport Transit Pitches" theme here: I'm gonna return to an idea I've idly raised in the past, but raise it now as an honest-to-God serious proposal: realign the Red Line through the Seaport: There are two alternatives, "easy" [relatively speaking] and "hard": "Easy"...

Been meaning to reply to this for... 3 months? Anyway, hopefully better late than never! IMO, this is actually a really interesting map. More than just illustrating what the system might look like if all routes were hyper-extended, this map articulates the number of routes that each corridor is...

I have a vague memory that the Summer Street Concourse actually extends even further southeast beyond the Red Line lobby above the Red Line subway toward South Station. I wonder how far that extends? My crazy transit thought of the day is to use that concourse to extend an LRT Seaport Silver...

Cool stuff, in no particular order: One of the reasons I love maps like this is that it forces us to examine our underlying assumptions about our real transit network. For example, in your map, South Station and North Station don't exist/no longer exist, so your network doesn't have to be built...

Aw hell yeah.

Right, this is the "quiet part" lurking in the background of all of this: with a small caveat (below), a bus is going to be more effective than any "on-the-cheap" mainline option. The one caveat to that is that the Grand Junction does provide an additional (and comparatively uncongested)...

"Phase 0" describes a pre-West Station build; operations are simplified in Phase 0.5 once West Station is actually built. Boston Landing <> West Station <> Agganis Arena area: pre-West Station, a temporary connection will be required to connect the Grand Junction track (which runs directly into...

The way I see it, the future of the Grand Junction falls into 3 eras. First Era: Mainline This is the current state. All trains must be FRA-compliant, all trains must always get priority at crossings, no compromise. This is the state in which the Grand Junction will remain as long as the T...

Made a few adjustments (after which I'm definitely calling it on this iteration this map -- other stuff I want to work on too!): Adjusted bus stop placement at Nubian Still don't like how far the label is from the Silver Line stop, but alas Reworked the commuter rail lines near East...

Wow, yeah. Consider my mind changed. (Idk if he's making videos much anymore, but those tunnels sound like prime Tom Scott material.)

Yeah, I've read the Wikipedia. Most of the examples seemed to be much more "heavyweight", for longer haul journeys across the water. I was thinking about something like this: Allow passengers to (e.g.) board an LRT at South Station, which rolls on to a ferry in the Seaport (passengers...

This isn't really a "crazy transit pitch" as much as "figuring out why a crazy transit pitch won't work", but: there are ferries which carry automobiles. Could there be ferries that carry light rail cars?