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[/URL][/IMG] Very good points that the urban ring concept is best not thought of literary as a ring around the city. I thought of some of these ideas after looking at the Everett Transit Action Plan. https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/17/docs/Everett/EverettPublicMeeting41316.pdf This...

[/URL][/IMG] I have posted the idea of an Ave De Lafayette Silver Line Portal in the past however recently I have been thinking about how it could be also be part of an overall expanded BRT network in Boston. As electric buses become common in the near future a two sided bus tunnel through...

https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/17/docs/Everett/EverettPublicMeeting41316.pdf The Everett Transit Action Plan is looking at a lot of the ideas being discussed in this thread (including reorganizing the bus lines and sending the Silver Line from Chelsea to Wellington along Revere Beach...

Your proposal would be to connect the E line to the Seaport via Stuart instead of its current connection to the Green Line subway. If this would be done you would want to make sure that the new Silver E Line has connections to the Green and Orange Lines. I had been playing around with a...

From a brief look at these revised stations most at least keep a reasonably similar entrance to the station as the previous designs. However the Union sq and Washington street station entrances are out of the way and hidden. I would say those changes are not worth the money. Why build a...

Here is an idea which I began to form in the Green Line reconfiguration thread, but is probably best to continue here as in this version it does not involve a direct connection to the Green Line. The vehicles could be either buses or light rail with some street running in mixed traffic (only...

https://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/T_Projects/T_Projects_List/CH%202%20-Final%20DEIS.pdf https://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/About_the_T/T_Projects/T_Projects_List/Executive_Summary.pdf Sorry to double post but here are 2 interesting links I found. The first shows diagrams of many...

A more simple version of this scheme would be to keep the silver line as a bus with a portal on Avenue de Lafayette. From here one line would loop at Boylston and Chinatown stations on the surface and then back into the portal which would make transfers from the green and orange lines much more...

Here's a scheme to run a new tunnel from the Silver Line to a portal on Avenue De Lafayette and then send a surface street car down Washington St to Government Center. From here the Brattle Loop could be connected to the surface which would create a connection to North Station. This project...

Re: Wynn Everett Casino | Everett https://www.massdot.state.ma.us/Portals/17/docs/Everett/EverettPubMeet021116.pdf Mass Dot has started a study for improved public transit in Everett. In summary it looks like the main focus is to extend the Chelsea Silver Line to the Orange Line at Malden and...

Pre-Big Dig Essex / Surface Rd intersection with former off Ramp Current Aerial at Essex / Surface Rd intersection This is the area I feel could be a trouble spot for a South End alignment. There is a very narrow space between the Radian building and the I-93 tunnel. Any transit way...

http://www.abettercity.org/docs%20starting%206.30.2015/2015.08.17%20SB%20Revised%20Progress%20Report.pdf http://www.abettercity.org/landdev/southboston.html A Better City did do a super general study of Seaport transportation. It makes mention in the Agenda going Forward section to Evaluate...

During Big dig aerial which shows filled I-93 Ramp. This is the current location of the Chinatown park and potential location for Hudson Street subway. Above is a map which show obstacles to avoid for a new tunnel. Please note the I-93 Egress stair which is about 25 ft from the Radian...

[/URL][/IMG] Here is a map showing how a new Essex Street connection would tie into the overall system. I understand that having to pass under the Orange Line is a negative to this scheme. However remember how much more involved the Silver Line Phase 3 was. This proposal does not create a...

To be clear this scheme would not require the Tremont street tunnel track to cross the Essex Street tracks at grade. Looking at the diagram I posted earlier the yellow area in plan and shown in section is the existing decline for the outbound connection to the Tremont Street tunnel. This...

[/URL][/IMG] I have updated the sketch to show a wider radius that matches the existing radius headed toward the Back Bay.

[/URL][/IMG] I have taken a look at modifying the Silver Line Phase 3 plans for a tunnel down Essex / Boylston Street into a more cost effective light rail extension. Specifically the image above is a diagram of the existing Boylston Station with modifications showing how the existing...

[/url][/IMG] Thanks for the research and analysis. Above is the image I referred to of the former ramp adjacent to the Radian.

Isn't the Transit way above 93 North? This is basically a two level tunnel where the floor of the transit way is the ceiling of 93 N below, correct? You can see from the linked street view that the ceiling of the 93 N tunnel appears to be the underside of the concrete structural slab. (This is...

While this may not work for commuter rail I wonder if this alignment could be a light rail tunnel leading to Washington street (as a surface route to Dudley) and branching to the Tremont street subway underground