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    Regional New England Rail (Amtrak & State DOT & NEC)

    I read somewhere (must have been Alon it was Sandy Johnson) complaints about the cost and the fact that it doesn't fix the curves or raise the height at all. Looking at the site on Google Maps, that I-95 bypass looks pretty nice right about now. Either way, I really could have used the service...
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    Underground station layouts

    These are great, but a piece of advice I immediately thought of was that, it would be easier to understand the drawings if they got darker the deeper into the station you went, meaning outside faregates was lighter, lower platforms was darker, and sub-basement levels even darker than that (if...
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    Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

    The Union Square design on slide 9 is marked as "draft - for discussion only" but am I understanding the station entrance design properly in thinking that in its current shape, it will block the outbound track from expansion westward? Then again, I took another look at the trackbed westward...
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    Crazy Transit Pitches

    Possibly a stupid question: is there any value to cut-and-covering four tracks, putting the Ashmont branch underground as well, and laying four tracks for RER/commuter rail on the surface? Or putting electrified RER in a tunnel? Basically, four T tracks, four rail tracks, in some combination...

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