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Re: 2/28/18: Thank You TransitMatters for a Bold and Practical Vision That ignores the sunk cost present in all the stations that are already high level that wouldn't be compatible with low level boarding trains and it also ignores that in the Northeast Amtrak has committed to high level...

Maybe we need to speed up boarding on the B line then. It shouldn't take that long all door boarding should really be implemented tomorrow IMO.

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Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett I'm not sure what everyone expected, but as far as I am concerned this is meeting my expectations on what would be built 100%. Yeah the design of the podium in particular is ridiculously tacky but it is being built by a Las Vegas casino operator what else did...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett The NYT is credible in particular if you are looking at the non-opinion pieces that they publish. They are one of the best newspapers still in operation as far as credibility goes.

Re: 115 Winthrop Square | Financial District Because Rifle always reacts like this to almost every major development that they have an issue with and they are very vocal so it feels like a lot more people are saying the same thing when in reality it is just them and maybe a couple others. On a...

Likely the only modification necessary is a front shaped like the one on the Type 8 and Type 9 trains which is the only major change required right now to make the vehicles compatible with the curves. I don't believe that has any effect on top speed and that the speed limits are because of the...

The type 10's haven't been designed yet so we don't know exactly how wide the doors will be the Type 9's are really just slightly revamped Type 8's. I will say though that as far as I know there aren't any Light Rail trains with doors quite that wide but I could be wrong as I can't remember the...

The green line is only slow because of close stop spacing on the surface branches and congestion in the central subway. The D line for example can move at a pretty good speed when its on its own branch for example Riverside to park takes about 1 hour which is the same as Boston College to park...

I see what you are saying, but that doesn't mean there isn't some efficiency to handling things the way Boston tends to. Plus Boston does have radial routes such as the 1/CT1, 66, 86, 110, and 16 among others. Boston is just heavily weighted towards rail transit because the street system is...

In regards to interlining I believe that F-Line had said that adding more north side branches doesn't effect the green line negatively in most cases and if there isn't capacity to run more trains from the south to the north for a line it would be possible to restore the line to a four track...

I doubt that it is a failing to provide routes that serve areas the subway doesn't serve only because Boston's transit system is so heavily built around the idea of bus to subway transfers so there are only a few areas with major overlap between bus and subway routes and those mostly occur in...

The strip mall predates the 2009 proposal as far as I can tell from googles historical imagery the strip mall has existed in its current form since 2007. Both the original plan and new plan shown above are plans for its replacement once the current build-out of Assembly Row is completed. Here...

Most of the garages are also structurally independent from the buildings surrounding them and are usually only surrounded on three sides so eventually they can be replaced and it should be relatively easy because they are independent of the surrounding buildings.

The gap over the Chelsea River for the under construction route is because there won't be a dedicated ROW or bus lanes there at that point the buses will be in mixed traffic. At least I'm assuming that is why there is a gap there.

I think it might take less time than that. It is owned by the same developer as Assembly Square so as long as the current development keeps moving along I could see them trying to start developing the Assembly Square Marketplace in the next 2-5 years.

Alewife is really farther out than where most radial transit would seem to be most helpful. Generally when you look at potential routes for the crosstown buses or urban ring rail options the trend seems to have been to try and link secondary business districts and neighborhood centers such as...

I agree they should have auto guidance in the tunnel that would be a huge improvement to the service as it exists today. Also in my mind if we ever stopped running buses in the tunnel it wouldn't mean them driving on the roads following the tunnels path I always thought of that as leading to a...

They could but that would just lead to the line being really slow again because without a guideway the buses cannot safely go as fast in the tunnel as a light rail car can.

Red-Blue is mostly to help Park Street but I think it could help DTX some as well. Sometimes I wish DTX and Park Street had been built as a single station originally with the red line platforms being located under winter street bridging the gap between Park and DTX to create a single...