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From a certain perspective, the extra funding and fare-free policies on the RTAs is a step in this direction. It's not enough to be a Marshall plan, but it is something. On the other side of this coin is also a chicken and egg problem: Why would RTA's and municipal shuttles (like in Acton) be...

Any 128 Station on the Fitchburg line is going to be at the actual junction of route 20/128 as well as the crossover of the Central Mass line and the Fitchburg line. You're looking at something approximating the Weston Transfer station on one side and the development at the end of Jones Rd on...

The plot thickens:

This is a great point so I just asked. If I get a response, I'll post it.

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I asked this question to the 2.0 thread because there are two of the new readers on buses but they are both near the front but I also asked the MBTA. The official response was: Pretty, pretty lame. If I had to venture a guess as to why it probably is because they cannot afford to have people do...

I like the geographic one more, personally. The way it cuts through "Dean|Rd" is cleaner and more legible than diagonally through both Dean and Englewood. I also don't feel that the switch back and forth between 45 degrees and horizontal is bad especially because it happens elsewhere on the same...

It's an unpaid internship opportunity

Does anyone know why the bus stops didn't get changed for Medford/Tufts? I took the 96 for fun(?) to get back to Ball Square and it makes no sense that they kept the old bus stops.

Yeah but that's not a crazy idea that requires a crayon sharpener. What's the cost per lift?

Who approves bus stop locations, the municipality?

Since we're here: - The span is 135ft when lifted (just like the other two bridges) although that is above high tide, not the current rail tracks so there is a few feet of leeway here but I'm going to napkin to 135Ft for ease. - Main Ave to the end of the station platform at Buzzards Bay is...

I hear what your saying but some of that was completely unavoidable. How do they oversee a project of which they have little in-house experience due to the novelty of the project? What type of planning should they have done to truly understand the scope of the utility nightmare under a historic...

I'm just trying to understand why you're blaming the state and I still don't think I fully understand your intent. How did the state "screw itself over"?

Here's F-Line's 2019 thoughts on this from page 146 of this very thread. Only F-Line can speak to whether it's still the current thought process but I thought it was worth mentioning because it details the challenges of the dual mode station with grade separation.

The problem here is that the ROW is destroyed at least south of the city center. If that was no object, my ideal would be to follow the 1945 plan, moving WM and Wedgemere off of regional rail, making Winchester Center a transfer station, head up into Woburn stopping at Cross Street, Woburn...

I'll probably respond to this over in crazy pitches to keep this thread centered. Having both wouldn't be the end of the world. Considering that Alewife may soon have a proposed commuter rail station as part of the redevelopment, having two relatively close node interfaces isn't terrible. I was...

This is a tough one for me to choose (outside of my vested interest living on the branch). The cost-reduction redesign precludes extension by removing the elevated station and bringing it down the ground. Yes, the momentum is there to be capitalized upon and that's really important to try and...

I agree with Ian Coss on this one that framing the big dig as massively inflated is a narrative perspective and not the reality. When he dug into the nitty gritty, it wasn't really a bunch of corruption siphoning government money but really the unknown complexities of the massive project...

Not only that, but the fact that Franklin Park doesn't touch its namesake bus stop intersection is killing me. That said, I believe @TheRatmeister said on Reddit that the parks were something they were going to work on in later drafts so that appears to be on the radar.