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In fairness, I'm totally fine blowing up the 10 houses to get the Belle Ave ROW back. If you're gonna go crazy, might as well do it in service of routings that go where the people and the demand are. After Rozzie Square, that demand is along Centre and Belgrade, not Washington (where density...

So, some of those CR re-reroutes are actively worse than existing routings (sending Providence via 93 instead of SW Corridor is worse, Rockport via 128 instead of Rt 1 makes no sense unless you're going Rt 1 then 128 and there's no median to speak of, Lowell via the Pike is basically a middle...

Lynn has some bus lanes already on N Common Street, S Common Street, and Market Street. They're not particularly well respected, and there's little chance that painted bus lanes on the Lynnway would be much better respected. As someone who drives that stretch of 1A frequently... The bus lanes...

They are probably whining about it because, well, that's what they do over there. As F-Line mentioned, though, they don't have a leg to stand on because the flyovers will actually improve their sightlines (except for the businesses, who don't give a damn about their sightlines and will be all...

That makes more sense, thanks. My mediocre eyesight strikes again!

Is that a... left lane flyover exit from 95 SB onto Washington Street? Generally I can't stand left exits, but it would go a long way towards ameliorating the Washington Street overpass traffic to the Cummings office parks.

Because I didn't do a very good job of explaining the routing I had in mind, and that's on me. I envision it handling the NxNE compass point on the map (think Route 1-ish). So, fork off after either Maverick or Airport (whichever you can manage, frankly), cross Chelsea Creek, station roughly at...

Okay so I stepped away from the discussion for a bit, and while you and I clearly disagree, we at least are doing so civilly. But F-Line is right. You've claimed that the existence of this cross-harbor study was some sort of vindication of following the data (nevermind the fact that studies are...

Red through the core of Park, DTX, and South Station is already close to capacity though, is the problem. Adding more people to that without adequate load spreading isnt wise. And RBC doesn't really work as a load spreader when in order to work you're asking people to, what, take CR to Airport...

I agree with most of this! But again, I think you're missing potential inter-neighborhood travel (and general demand stimulation from people who could, but don't presently, commute via the CR line). Right now, your only real local transit option on Reading north of Oak Grove is the 136/137 out...

Would it kill you to consolidate your replies to me into one post? You're killing me with the three posts to ping back and forth to read and respond to lol. So, by your own chart, MC already matches almost the entire southern end of Orange, and that's 5 year old data. I'd love to have more up...

I'm confused as to where you're getting a 65% reduction in length. Are you measuring from the channel location to the Jeffries Point shoreline? Because if so, you've got to now bore under Jeffries Point to roughly reach the BL Airport station (assuming we're doing a superstation here) rather...

Alright, so let's take your costs from this '94 study, and correct for inflation (which is closer to 75%, not 50%), and also include the costs to get from SS to the harbor tunnel, and from the tunnel to Airport Station, Airport Station itself, and Airport Station to the existing ROW (since the...

Obviously the second CA/T tunnel doesn't just spring into existence, but again, it's following a path which is known, where the obstacles (or lack thereof) are known. It's safe to say that the Harbor isn't going to have the sort of ideal man-made conditions of the man-made space under the...

But it's not "spend $1B to local connectivity", it's "spend $1B on local connectivity and connectivity to Boston". It's not an either-or proposition with BLX, whereas it is with your airport routing. Also, local concerns aren't locked totally to jobs. People go to visit family, friends...

Why is it so hard to understand that the residents of Lynn (and the surrounding towns) might want both enhanced local connectivity AND better access to downtown? They want and need both (the failure of I-95 to make it out this way was both a blessing and a curse for the area). The reality of...

That flow is largely handled by matching outbound trains from SS to Back Bay (and vice versa during PM rush) - it's not show-and-go level service, but neither are the OC lines so it's entirely feasible to plot your commute out without passing the subway faregates. The T even publishes a schedule...

Reading is split in the Legislature. For the grate you posted (over by Bagel World), you're looking at Jason Lewis for State Senator, and Rich Haggerty for State Rep. The northern part of town, along with North Reading and Lynnfield, has Bradley Jones as linked by @shmessy Worth giving all...

I'd honestly prefer restarting the numbering at 1 from the split. But that's not going to happen either because they'd have to remove 128 from way too many signs only for everyone to keep calling the beltway 128 anyway, since that makes sense from a historical wayfinding perspective. The gap is...

The exit numbering up there is screwy now, and will be a different kind of screwy after the milepost change. It's hardly the end of the world, people have been navigating a more confusing setup for longer. But it's still screwy to go from exit 64 to exit 38 on the same road deck, which is what...