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I know this sounds crazy, but what about a Personal Rapid Transit System? Rather than make multiple transfers from the cr to the central monorail to the bus/zipcar/google cars suggested operating the last mile into the office parks, lets cut out the middleman and opt for a driverless PRT system...

Re: North-South Rail Link So lets say the link gets built in a decade or two, and that in the meantime the T has built out its planned Indigo DMUs. What gets routed through the Link? If its only built with 2 tracks, would it make sense to keep through routed CR to a minimium, and instead turn...

Forgive me if this was already discussed, but given the perceived lack of hotel space and the major contributions already given by the colleges, what is the possibility of dorms being used to house the athletes? Boston already has thousands of vacant dorms during the summer, so if they really...

Obviously incorporating mixed use and street-level development into garages is beneficial and commonplace, but why design with conversion to habitable space in mind? Car demand may decrease to some extent with transit expansion to the neighborhood of the garage, but would that really justify...

Not trying to be a grammar nazi, but thought you might want to revise those parts I bolded before you send it out. Btw, are there any public meetings coming up about the project soon? Want to get a better feel for it before I write back

I feel like the olympic bid and major storm surge protections are going to conflict, theres not enough money to go around for everything and neither neccesarily require the other to be built. You have the olympic bid which needs to be the ultimate focus and project for the next decade if its...

So I've been doing some work for a planning class, thought it would be relevant here too. I've been working on a Springfield-Westfield-Holyoke DMU line, using almost all existing CSX or PVRR trackage. My project was supposed to be Westfield centric, but I'm thinking of this more as one line in...

Wow, that's by far my favorite map so far it makes much more geographical sense than the others and doesn't sacrifice readability.

I think this is just the T wanting to one up PATH's wtc station. Can't let those bastards in New York waste more money on an uglier station than us

Not sure why you would want to move facilities to a place designed to take the full force of any storm hitting Boston, ports came about in the first place because they're protected inlets. Just put a small service road along the dams and islands and maybe add more recreational facilities for...

Re: Fairmont Line Upgrade If they do it right, could completely change the game with Patriot Place. Would have an effective and relatively frequent service that could definitely bring some really sweet TOD from Kraft and friends if built. Wonder if Kraft would kick in some money for a...

"...MBTA's passenger rail, the purple-colored trains."

Reading through this document I found while surfing the web, and was curious what they meant by the bolded parts. http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/boston.html This paper is from 1993, and Bowdoin's been there since (1913?). Are they talking about the MGH extension and it's just poorly worded, or what?

Is there a MBTA sponsered map of the urban ring anyone could link to me? Haven't had any luck in finding it

Not to mention the crowing number of people who's final destination is actually MGH itself. I know a lot of people who commute to MGH/Cambridge from the north shore and just drive to the red line instead of the much easier/closer blue line to avoid transfers.

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Wow that's not just a Hingham ferry, it also stops at Logan and some of the harbor islands for WAY cheaper than the current ferrys. I think the other ferry to Georges Island was something like $30 round trip, this is only going to be $16 round trip ($8...

Why do they have to replace them in storms?

Another bump for the trolley, really interested to see how they plan on pulling that off.

Ok so I'm not crazy then, this has been bugging me for awhile. I wonder what the benefit would be of running a second green line through downtown in the Riverbank subway. There could be all the transfers assuming the blue line goes to MGH, there would be a blue/red transfer at MGH and an orange...

Not sure where this is coming from, but Im under the impression that there are some kind of tracks out of north station already built where the green line could head back towards government center. Not sure where I'm getting this from, but it keeps popping into my head.