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Hmm, or maybe you could convert it to light rail and connect it to the Transitway out to the Seaport. (Can't go to Chelsea that way though unless you build a new tunnel.) The connection would have to be 100% grade-separated through the Amtrak and MBTA maintenance yards and tunnel under the South...

One could maybe argue that South Station isn't a "non-transportation building", but of course it also has office space in it (and is about to get a lot more). But you can also access South Station from the Federal Reserve building if you work there. Kendall outbound used to be accessible from...

Last I looked, the power distribution cables were pulled to where they connect to the OCS, but hadn't been actually connected to it, in the Gilman Sq to Ball Sq stretch.

Why is it signed "Airport Station"? So nobody gets confused and thinks it's the actual airport?

The missing link I've been wondering about is the middle section of the Assabet River Rail Trail. Unfortunately, most of it is owned by Honey Pot Hill Orchards, which uses it as a service road and has said they don't want a bike path going through their orchard because people will steal their...

Just to clarify, the MCRT alongside the Fitchburg Line in Belmont is in active development. They submitted the 25% design for the section from Blanchard Rd to Belmont Center in January.

It's either that or the bridge has to be significantly elevated. Take your pick.

From the above link, wtf? In what universe does this ridiculous kludge even make sense, when the Empire Connection is already equipped with third rail? If anything they should extend the third rail to the junction with the Hudson Line, so they only have to run diesel north of Croton-Harmon.

I've brought my bike on the North Station-Seaport ferry a few times. You just hook the handlebars over the rail (or otherwise secure it) near the bow.

Right now, the 71/73 buses go in the south portal from Mount Auburn St to the upper busway, discharge passengers, go out the north portal, loop around the Common, come back in the north portal to the lower busway, pick up passengers (this is where the wrong-side door issue arises) and head out...

If you reverse the upper busway, you'll have the wrong-side door problem on both levels. Or do you mean reverse the lower one?

You can see in EGE's diagram where the original Haymarket Green Line platforms were. For a while in the early 00s, the Green Line was routed out the former Orange Line portal and up a temporary ramp shared with a Central Artery exit to the elevated section over Causeway St.

I can't figure out how a cross-harbor commuter rail tunnel would even connect to South Station. The presentation shows a 4-track station under Fort Point Channel, but then where does it go? That said, a plan for a cross-harbor tunnel to connect to the Eastern Railroad is the reason South Station...

I get frustrated with Levy's writings about the GLX, because he goes on about the ridiculous the cost is since it's in an existing ROW, like it was simply a matter of laying down tracks. Which, of course, it wasn't, and this isn't the first time I've pointed that out to him. Makes me take...

In re GLX to Rte. 16, IIRC that the reason they didn't keep the station on the embankment was because they'd have had to take down a building, I think 222 Boston Ave, to have room to separate the tracks for the platform, and curving the entire line to the south didn't have that problem. Looking...

This was asked on the STEP mailing list and this was the reply:

Sure wish they'd do that at Sullivan, so you don't have to walk under an underpass and up a driveway to get to the entrance. It's like the designers had no idea East Somerville existed.

It's a similar situation at Magoun Square; the long walkway is so the tracks have enough distance to come back together before the bridge. Same at Medford/Tufts, it's why the station entrance is on Boston Ave instead of the College Ave bridge.

I would like to call for a nationwide ban on the phrases "on track" or "derailed" when referring to rail or transit projects.

With regard to the project to JFK St, I'm really glad they're getting rid of the parking on Memorial Drive westbound. That's always struck me as insanely dangerous.