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The reason the Encore ferries are so small is they have to fit under the Alford St bridge, so they don't have to raise it for every ferry run. A ferry to the stadium would presumably dock on the east side of the bridge and could be a lot larger. (Not taking a position here on how useful such a...

MV is eminently bikeable; I've gone there with just bikes a few times (though it's been a few decades). It's hillier than Nantucket, but many of the roads have separate bike paths next to them. Oak Bluffs to Edgartown is a very pretty ride.

The FRA would have some things to say about it too. For example, "what the shrieking bloody f*ck are you people thinking?!"

This is part of why the GLX maintenance facility and yard are located where they are; several of the other options were rejected specifically because they conflicted with the NSRL portal locations. So it's definitely a thing that is being actively planned around.

Huh? This drawbridge doesn't interfere with NSRL in the slightest; the portals are going to be way back near the maintenance facility. Keeping the surface North Station is a necessary part of NSRL, because not all northside trains are going to run through.

That's a really interesting idea, though it has the problem of any extension through Porter Square of having to squeeze a GL station under the CR station. It looks from an examination of the GLX route that you can get away with 20' for the ROW, and most of the corridor is 40' wide or wider. But...

Yeah, the bit about the state law prohibiting a T station near Arlington Catholic is about the most 1970s Arlington thing I've ever heard. (I grew up in Lexington, so my anti-Arlington snobbery is well-rooted.)

Both tunnels run under the North Station platform tracks, well away from the TD Garden and the Green Line ROW. https://maps.app.goo.gl/94cNVUxt2Sst9EeY9

The tunnel where the yard is was built as part of the TD Garden construction all the way back in 1995. So planning for it took place well before even the original 1994 study of the GLX, and early in the Big Dig planning process. So I'm not sure what the space constraints would have been, other...

While you're revising, can the number be larger? It's nearly illegible at screen resolution.

Someone please explain to me how it could be even remotely that expensive. At nearly all of the stations, the "vestibule" at the top of the stairs is plenty wide enough for a row of gates. East Somerville might be tricky, but the entrance is at ground level so it's easy to fix. Might have to...

Biggest problem with extending to West Medford, other than Medford people hate nice things, will be the bridge over the Mystic. Though if they can build a new bridge next to the old one, that would presumably be less expensive. The other issue is that extending GLX past West Medford will require...

It might have to continue to be a drawbridge. From 33 CFR § 117.591: Of course, the same regulations say of the East Cambridge Viaduct drawbridge, "the operating machinery of the draw shall be maintained in an operable condition" and I'm pretty sure it's not even before they laid continuous...

No it's not. A navigable waterway is a navigable waterway, and building a bridge over it that obstructs marine traffic is just as illegal as filling it in. And, the canal was built for a reason, which is that navigating around the Cape was dangerous and lots of ships got wrecked. That's still...

30 miles of tunnel between Palmdale and Burbank. That ain't gonna be cheap.

Friend of mine reported on a mishap with the trackless trolley overhead near Harvard Square this morning: That would have been even more dramatic if the overhead was still live.

DCR will never, ever go for a CR stop at Walden Pond. The place has serious erosion problems from overuse as it is, and because the stop would be on the other side of the pond from the beach, a CR stop would make the problem much worse.

It's important to remember that the NSRL itself requires electrification, because diesel trains won't be able to handle the required grades. So before the NSRL can open, at least the lines that are slated to run through will have to be electrified.

And yet somehow people "lollygagging" on road drawbridges that have sidewalks doesn't seem to be much of a problem, at least in my experience. Generally when people see the flashing lights and hear the horns they get off the bridge right smart.

I assume that's a monitor for the menu.