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ant: I am "all aboard" with your idea for dipping the train tracks in the Bowker area to allow an eastbound Pike onramp. This configuration would also work I would think with the one way Fens proposal in the map above. If you can sink a miles long green line tunnel 100 years ago on the north...

daveM: First of all your work is beautiful! Congrats. I also like how you found precedence at Copley to give up a lane westbound in the Bowker area. As cited above, I agree obviously 100% on your pike on and off ramp locations. I will put in another pitch for adding further utility to the...

TO ant, daveM, charlieMTA To come to this site today and see 3 of you guys proposing turning the current Mass Ave/Newbury onRamp into a pike offRamp puts a smile on my face! The thing is it is not even one of the options that is being considered by the mass DOT in their Pike Ramp study which...

F-Line, I love reading your analysis of things, and attention to detail and grades etc, but on this point I think you are mistaken. The Green does go under the Muddy. How else does it go from Kenmore to Auditorium station? And if you are on that train leaving Kenmore I notice no steep decline...

Interesting news about Carlton/Mountfort, though given that, the mDOT Ramp Study must have looked it over for Pike connectivity, but perhaps one hand at mDOT doesn't know what the other hand is doing. Ant, I have thought of a short tunnel for the track for sometime now in a fantasy part of my...

F-Line thank-you for the detailed analysis. It's the details like that that I appreciate and fear. Ah well. I have learned a thing or two, or three or four. Thank-you.

I know some here will object to any taking of breakdown lane space from the few places on the Pike extension that has it, but i woke up this morning unable to go back to sleep thinking of this issue and how it relates to a St Marys eastbound onramp. I find the feedback here very interesting and...

It is beautiful. Putting all of the Bowker traffic on just Charlesgate West is interesting; something I have not seen before in other approaches. As a practical matter though the state is rejecting putting Bowker traffic thru intersections with Comm Ave and Beacon. They rate their capacity at...

Well, most of the extension has no break down lane at all. That section is a rare exception. Given this unsafe condition, I assume you refuse to use the Mass Pike extension at all and feel sorry for the poor fools whose GPS guides them onto it.

Thanks, but it couldn't be the whole thing! Anyway, the Pike Extension is already in violation, what with no break down lane on most of it. In my first photo above, looking north of my proposed east bound onramp you can see the room cars have to merge in the current west bound onramp. It is...

Any thoughts why this is not on the state's options list?

Jeez, can't point out which section of the article you are referring to?

Those Ipswich Street apartment dwellers would scream bloody murder at this as well, but is this possible?

Eastbound IS a goal for the Pike. The "Massachusetts Turnpike - Boston Ramps Study" states three "Goals", the first two of which are: "new or revised eastbound-on or westbound-off ramps along the Massachusetts Turnpike that would directly serve Boston's Back Bay" (goal 1) and "new or revised...

Re: Bowker Overpass replacemen That could be true, I am not familiar with the extent of the efforts made in Somerville on the McCarthy. Still, on the Bowker, we have petitioned the state, sent letters, had good turnout at public meetings, drawn up alternate plans, have a website, have worked...

Thank you Ant for the feedback. I guess to say 'everybody wins', as I did is oversimplification and not completely accurate but it is the direction I was aiming for. It is more accurate to say that maybe everyone gets a bit more of what they want. The neighborhood wants the overpass gone, the...

That is not in the cards. A rebuild begins in the spring. The neighborhood has advocated that, more or less. Instead we get an 18 month rebuild so it can stand strong for another decade and a half.

My main evidence that they have won is that they start a major rebuild of the Bowker this spring, an 18-month long project that we have been trying to stop and get the state instead to spend those $12 million to instead refocus on overpass removal. The state's project could add a decade to 15...

Thanks Highlander. Very interesting. I don't know how good it is, but the state DOT uses something that sounds similar to map out route changes and analyze their impacts. They then grade various intersections from A to F (maybe you could call these nodes), and project forward to include...

It has been argued for 3 times in the last roughly 6 months as part of the Mass DOT Pike ramp public meeting process, and the other removed overpasses were part of those arguments. Here is a report from the last meeting, which was all about the Bowker...