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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    The hell? That is just mind-boggling incompetence in user experience, even by MBTA standards.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    From the Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership mailing list:
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    The entire point of accelerated bridge construction is being able to replace the bridge rapidly, with a minimal shutdown time. Since the piers were being replaced (which I'm assuming was necessary), that was not an option, so they had to build the temporary bridge. At that point you might as...
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    Sure, replacing the superstructure of an overpass on the existing abutments can be done in a weekend, but it is overall more expensive and time-consuming than conventional construction; the advantage is that most of the construction happens off-line. Since the NWSB project involved building new...
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    General Infrastructure

    Interesting idea. Unlikely at best to actually happen. But if it did, looks to me like it would make sense to put the north portal just past Chelsea High School, which eliminates a nasty curve and most of the elevated highway. But, staging the construction will be a huge and expensive problem no...
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    General Infrastructure

    Argh, I forgot that the City Square Tunnel was included in the quiz. If I hadn't I might have looked north of the Central Artery portal and seen the other one as well.
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    MBTA Commuter Rail (Operations, Keolis, & Short Term)

    Interesting. Did the Downeaster make all the CR stops?
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    Transit history/trivia quiz

    Big Dig tunnel: Surface Rd and Sudbury St, inside the building with Boston Public Market in it North wing of the Intercontinental Hotel Dewey Square Plaza (intake) 125 Summer St Next to the (closed) main platform entrance of South Station (I think) Surface Rd and Essex St Next to the Chinatown...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    There's a pair of really tall streetlights at either end of the bridge, but they're not in use yet (in fact, last I looked they still had their protective plastic wrapping).
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    The MCRT through Weston and Wayland is complete, it opened a couple years ago. Eversource finally has the green light to start putting in their transmission line on the Sudbury-Hudson stretch, but that (and the MCRT on top of it) won't be done for a couple years. I can't find any information on...
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    Biking the Boston 'Burbs (Trails, MDC, & Towns beyond Hubway area)

    The DCR held a public webinar last night to take comments and questions about the current planning for the segment of the Mass Central Rail Trail between Prospect Hill Park in Waltham and the start of the completed MCRT in Weston just over the bridge. Unfortunately I missed the main part of the...
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    Freight and General New England RR News

    Strike averted, hopefully.
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    Regional Rail (RUR) & North-South Rail Link (NSRL)

    Kind of surprising that the Downeaster is one of the routes the diesel/catenary hybrid trainset is specced for. Are they assuming the T is going to electrify the Lowell and Haverhill lines?
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    MassDOT Rail: Springfield Hub (East-West, NNERI, Berkshires, CT-Valley-VT-Quebec)

    One issue with the Boston-Sherbrooke-Montreal proposal is that it can't use the planned preclearance facility at Gare Centrale, because it has additional station stops in Canada. Which means it would also have to be timed to hit the border crossing at a reasonable hour and not at 3am.
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    MassDOT Rail: Springfield Hub (East-West, NNERI, Berkshires, CT-Valley-VT-Quebec)

    Timing would be tricky. The Maple Leaf leaves NYP at 7:15am and arrives at ALB at 9:50. The Late For Sure Limited takes 5:20 BOS-ALB, so a Maple Leaf Boston section would have to leave BOS at 4:40am. Or they could push the whole thing back a couple hours, which would have it arrive at TOR around...
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    Other People's Rail: Amtrak, commuter rail, rapid transit news & views outside New England

    So here's a new one: an outfit called "Fondation Trains de nuit" in Quebec is pushing for rail service from Montréal to Sherbrooke and continuing overnight to Boston. The article says they're negotiating with Genesee and Wyoming, so that sounds like it would go over the Saint Lawrence and...
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    Green Line Reconfiguration

    So, wait, are you going under Boylston/Essex St from Boylston station, or reusing the abandoned Tremont St tunnel and looping around under Marginal St? If the latter, Essex St doesn't figure in at all, the tricky part is getting into the Transitway alignment under Atlantic Ave. I-93 northbound...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

    There's a preserved RDC at the Bedford end of the Minuteman Bikeway, but I'm pretty sure it's not one that historically ran that route.
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    I have been told that the Community Path ROW will still be needed for construction access for a couple months after the Medford Branch opens. Maybe they'll be able to get whatever work is involved there done during the shutdown, but I'm not holding my breath.
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    Bill Russell Bridge | North Washington St.

    The biggest difference between Scheme Z and what was built is under Scheme Z, all traffic between the Central Artery tunnel and Storrow Drive crossed the river and looped back around. That was replaced by the two tunnels that run under the North Station tracks.

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