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Someone on the reddit pointed out that Congress St should have a stop on the SL1/3

Porto Metro

A little late, but here are my pictures from January 11th.

It's certainly stylistically interesting but it's god-awful at being a map that shows you how to get places. Where is the stop called Museum of Fine Arts? How many stops will you need to ride through after Kenmore to get to BC? Are there stops in Milton or Newton? Which stations are accessible...

Quick Spider Map

That's only true if there is significant demand for only detached single family homes. If people are willing to 'compromise' and live in row-houses, duplexes, triple-deckers, etc where every home still has their own front door and, while smaller than some houses out in the burbs, are not...

Boston was built as a streetcar city, we can rebuild it (or at least make some changes to it) as one. vibes But more seriously, I generally do it by looking at which routes share a common 'trunk.' all the GL branches go through the Tremont St Subway, all the CL branches use the Boylston St...

Nothing wrong with calling MGH "Mass General", in the same way that there's nothing wrong with calling Brigham and Women's "Brigham". They're two different hospitals, owned by one parent company. If you're lucky you might even be able to get them to sponsor that name change. That's one place I'm...

It was just "Charles". (Although named for Charles Circle.) The same way that the "Sq" in Kendall, Central, Harvard and Andrew was implied, not signed. Same thing with Columbia, it wasn't "Columbia Rd", just Columbia. Agreed. (Hence the "I could go either way" thing). The MIT in Kendall seems...

On the topic of reverting name changes, I think I'd switch Kendall/MIT and JFK/UMass back to Kendall and Columbia. Charles/MGH I could go either way on.

This would probably need to be a deep-bored section so there's no reason to cop-out like that. My crayon-location has been the HMS Quad since that offers a worksite. I'm not disputing that loads of people want to go to LMA. That's the whole reason the UR makes a point out of serving it, even if...

Leaked SCR schedule from the reddit. Claimed official schedule drop is March 10th. Are they really not going to run the shuttle train on weekends when the gaps in headways are the largest? That seems insane.

As much as I will always mourn what we lost in 62-63, even if I could have never seen it, it's a dead name for a dead and buried place and doesn't belong on modern signage for the station.

The Existence of bus routes like this in an UR world doesn't necessarily make the corridor a good fit for an extension. UR access to Longwood is pretty good on this map, so the main benefit would be giving BL riders a OSR to Longwood. I don't think that's worth a billion dollars given the many...

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/road-closed-in-littleton-mass-due-to-3-car-train-derailment/3634970/

It was improving for a long time and through 2023 it was quite good, but I think it's gone downhill rapidly in the past few months.

Note: The omission of Chinatown was not intentional, I apologize to Chinatown.

Finally got around to making a revised fantasy map, featuring a new Urban Ring design, more regional rail, more streetcars, more colors, and more Brockton.

If the entrance has modern signage on the outside, I don't think it's a concern. This mosaic is above the Lagrange St entrance, which is definitely not the main entrance, so again I'm not super concerned about tourists being misled. I also think the mosaic style makes it reasonably clear that...

And this mosaic might actually become visible again, here's hoping they keep it