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Looks to me like it should be doable to put platforms in parallel east of a wye: The existing Highland Branch ROW would need a little bit of realignment to accommodate full tangent tracks, but I don't think it would be earth-shattering. This alignment would also avoid interlining at the...

Right, this is the key thing to bear in mind here: these tracks are really close to each other. Like, "1000-feet-as-the-crow-flies" really close. Even with the S curve F-Line drew here, it's still only 1500 feet of track. And yeah -- the only way the street grid goes away is if we get Urban...

@TheRatmeister I finally got a chance to look at these on a larger monitor, and they really look fantastic. Stunning work.

These maps are excellent -- and I'm glad my maps were useful enough to be worth updating! Re frequency threshold: it is worth calling out that you are definitely using a looser threshold than I did (not that I'm criticizing you for doing so -- your reasoning makes sense). The approach I took...

Yeah, I pretty intentionally excluded Lechmere from the set of hubs. First, it's much much closer to Downtown than almost any of the others. Maverick is about as close (depending where in Downtown you measure from), but Boston Harbor artificially inflates that distance in practice (being...

Fair question! I think solutions using either framework will be interesting. So perhaps we’ll say that either approach is good, just clarify up front whether your solution is in a “stet” framework or “blank slate”. (Also bear in mind that one could also do realignments — eg realign Red to have...

Let's draw some lines on some maps. Let's assume that Boston has five "downtowns": Downtown/Financial District, Back Bay, Longwood Medical Area, Kendall, and the Seaport. (This is a somewhat arbitrary assumption, I grant.) Let's further assume that there are five "BERY-style" bus transfer...

Aha yes, this was it, thank you both! And yeah, even if dwell times didn’t necessarily improve in certain ways, the increased ridership is an obvious winner, IMO. It’s also possible that the 28 is a bit of a special case, and that lower ridership routes — maybe even very-high-but-not-28-high...

I appreciate that you may have more context and so can’t confirm or deny, but this definitely sounds like an internal draft that is still WIP, possibly testing some other aspect of the map while leaving things like the SL in an unfinished state. That said, if they demote the Silver Line, I...

In general, I support free buses (for any number of reasons). However, IIRC the dwell time savings on the 28 during its fare free trial were modest. I don’t remember all the details (and unfortunately don’t have time IRL to go looking), but I do remember thinking that the results of the fare...

Love it. Two suggestions (one of which may be rendered moot by the other): I would add a medium thin (loosely geographically accurate) Blue Line to the inset. Right now it looks like it was unintentionally omitted IMO. I do see what you were going for -- it evokes the neighborhood maps in...

I have also sketched out this general idea before. As @KCasiglio mentions, much of the Charles has a 6 mph limit, which hampers you pretty severely. (You also have relatively low bridges along much of the river.) The limit increases to 10 mph east of the BU Bridge, but that's still pretty slow...

Unlike some of us (ahem, see my signature), @vanshnookenraggen is classy enough not to hawk his wares here on the forum. But he recently did a really excellent redesign of SEPTA's new map, and his blog post lays out a lot of his theory of transit diagrams -- quite relevant to the discussions in...

413 CRIB (love the name) plus Z-shaped rail FTW, love it. This is me diverging a bit off-topic, but this hits on an idea that I've had for a while that we might call "Flyers for All": creating an economic investment in small/rural communities by subsidizing rail (or bus) service throughout the...

Yeah, I’m not sure whether the speed issue is present at Medford/Tufts — I suspect it’s more a factor at Union Square. For comparison, the tails at Medford/Tufts are something like 520 feet (based on my quick measurement on Google Maps), while Wonderland is something like 1200 and Braintree is...

Going way back to this briefly: the question would be whether there is room for a lengthier set of tail tracks beyond the platform (ideally with crossovers), which increases the flexibility and capacity of turning operations significantly. The setup at Wonderland or Braintree are good examples...

I like this list! For the "murkier" routes, we could simply label some cross-streets at a regular cadence. (Note that what we are also doing, subtly, is building a template for a "fantasy" T map that sees rapid transit service to all these locations.) I've been looking for these but couldn't...

^ Yeah sorry, that was part of my point: need to choose the right entrance because if you don’t (and don’t realize until after going through the turnstile), you’ll have to leave and pay a second fare.

Fell down a rabbit hole: since I used font size as a restrictive criterion for my diagram, I got curious how large other systems make their station labels (relative to height of the overall diagram). These measurements are not precise but seem interesting: NYC Subway: 0.34% Chicago: 0.44%...

Oh, that's really cool! (And also I'm gonna be so screwed trying to add this to that corner of the map 😅) [Sorry for the triple post.]