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The green line as it is can have three-car trains without the need to block off the other branches; my understanding is that once the Type 9s arrive and the Somerville extension is built this should become the norm for the branches that can handle them.

I don't understand why unsignaled busy pedestrian crossings are a problem for trolleys, honestly... the Opera Place crossing at Northeastern University is very busy with students crossing from one side of the campus to the other, and there is no issue...and that's with the trolleys coming right...

So, when discussions of 24-hour MBTA service are brought up, one area in particular that gets a lot of attention is East Boston, due to its poor access to the rest of the city. Would it be at all reasonable to run one small segment of the Blue Line (Airport-Gov't Center, say?) later than the...

If I remember when I was looking at the specs of the new cars, this is exactly what the MBTA hopes to have in the new ones.

I always wonder about routes like that anyway... is it really going to be time-competitive even with the trackless trolley to go all the way up to Porter Square, then back around to Lechmere and North Station? It's nice from an interconnectivity standpoint I suppose but I doubt it would be...

I was mostly just poking fun at the extreme rhetoric. :p My understanding is they could (one of the rights expressly granted even with the home rule amendment to the legislature is redrawing municipal boundaries); but consider where the population is centered; if there is major opposition to...

So, uh, is this a manifesto for redrawing the municipal boundaries, or for having the People's Army descend on Harvard Square?

Honestly I would think a binary-identified transgender person would prefer to simply use the bathroom of their identified gender; but of course using a gender-neutral bathroom is generally preferable to getting stabbed by someone who doesn't think they they should have gone into whatever...

Re: Silver Line to Chelsea (Study Meeting) Both the current and the new system map show the Airport Terminals and Airport Station as clearly defined entities, and if someone does get confused and gets off at Airport Station, the Massport shuttles are still free, aren't they? I'm not sure if it...

Re: Silver Line to Chelsea (Study Meeting) System connectivity- you could make the busway rail, but then it would have to end at Airport Station at best (and be an isolated island), whereas BRT can go into the Ted Williams Tunnel and continue to the transitway. (I think that's the plan...

I imagine that was necessary to get the diamond- but yeah, State Street is weird, the Wonderland-State line seems to be on top of the orange line and the Bowdoin-State line is underneath it. I thought it ignored the loop too when I first looked at it- but it does show the loop, in the form of a...

Re: Track 61 (Seaport - Back Bay DMU) Pretty much everyone does- this is something transportation planners like to stick their fingers in their ears about, since infrastructure is so expensive and transportation planners try above all else to be "reasonable". As long as we live in a state that...

I will forever be baffled by the thought that it was a good idea to have stations named "Center" and "Central" next to each other.

I always figured Fenway Station was named such specifically to promote its usage as an alternate station for Fenway Park, to reduce overcrowding at Kenmore a bit. Certainly, all the prominent Red Sox signage in the station seems to imply that...

As I used to cross Cleveland Circle on foot all the time, I do thing something needs to be done there. (At the very least, the pedestrian light cycle should give enough time to cross the whole road, not just enough to get to the traffic island and wait for another cycle, which no one does...

Re: Government Center When you pass into Government Center you do enter a New Boston, a Boston of isolated, soul-crushing buildings of mammoth scale and forbidding architecture (I understand this was not the point- but it very rarely is.), separated by wide barren streets. In the end I would...

As long as even Porter Sq. itself is a sea of parking spaces, I don't really expect this land to be worth developing on... I guess maybe if the deck was built as part of a Union-Porter extension of GLX?

Re: Track 61 (Seaport - Back Bay DMU) I know that you've said before that part of the issue is the actual BBY-Copley Jct. part, because of buildings in the area. Would a (temporarily) stub-end station at BBY be more affordable? (Thinking of a Union-Porter type situation) Or does the expense...

Re: Track 61 (Seaport - Back Bay DMU) At the cost of never being able to build anything over the pike east of Back Bay.

Re: Track 61 (Seaport - Back Bay DMU) :rolleyes: And this exact mindset is what created the Silver Line, which they now seem to have deemed a failure. Now we can get a DMU that will likely take so much time that it will give conventioneers the impression the Back Bay is in some distant western...