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The cost is disconnecting the station naming from its surrounding geography, and the resulting confusion to tourists and new residents. That isn't a cost worth paying.

Can there be multiple "host cities" to get around that requirement? Such as, hypothetically, Boston-Cambridge or Minneapolis-St Paul or San Francisco-Oakland?

Not sure if you're serious, but ... station names should describe the places where they are. "MGH" on Charles station is fine, but "Citizens Bank" on State station is not. I'd be fine with "Gillette Station" if Foxboro ever becomes a full-time commuter rail stop. Or "New Balance/WGBH" for...

1100 feet (about 1/5 mile) is the as-a-bird-flies distance from Assembly Square station to Wynn's property. Only part of that distance is river.

Arlington, what you seem to be missing here is that the city and state are giving Wynn the privilege of building this casino. In exchange, they have the right to demand traffic mitigation, and they should aggressively do so. A bridge (or a 24-hour on-demand ferryboat) is a way to leverage...

Lanes & Games is not a very long walk from Alewife. The problem there is the unpleasantness of the walk, not the distance. (There's no river in the way, as there is between Assembly and the Wynn site.) ETA: Google Maps says 0.4 miles, 8 minute walk. I think there's a back way through Acorn...

Besides being a casino, this is also a hotel. A *big* hotel. A lot of tourists who stay at hotels don't have cars, because they've flown here from somewhere else.

Wynn isn't going to do anything that the cities and the state don't force him to do as a condition of granting the license. This discussion is all about getting the cities and state to require transit connection as one of those conditions. That could be a bridge or a boat or a new commuter...

and how exactly do you plan to move all of that water-dependent industrial use? You do realize it's pretty essential use?

Someone above mentioned a ferry dock on the Wynn property. Using that to run ferryboats over to Assembly Square would cost less than a new bridge and would be quite helpful -- especially if the boat service could also serve the Target/Costco shopping center nearby.

But doesn't the casino as entertainment venue have entirely different characteristics from what you describe, with lots of people going to it right before a show starts, and leaving it right afterwards?

The benefit to Somerville would be increased utilization of the new Assembly Square T station, and an additional market for all of the retail and restaurant uses now being built next to it. Also, pedestrian and bike connectivity from Somerville to its northern neighbors (just as Somerville...

Isn't the casino (whether in Everett or Revere) also going to be a major new venue for live entertainment, competing with Harborlights, House of Blues, all the local theatres and concert halls, maybe even the TD Garden? That type of use generates a lot of traffic all at once, rather than a...

If the T is somehow not fit for well-dressed people seeking entertainment, then who are all those folks who take it to get to Symphony Hall and the various theatres in town? The cities and state, if they have the political will, can force Wynn to provide appropriate transit connections, in...

In Columbus, Ohio, the siting of a casino on the west side of town spawned a new bus route, running much later at night than the rest of their system, Friday and Saturday nights only: http://www.cota.com/assets/Riding-Cota/Schedules/Current/222.pdf (there are also regular local buses on this...

Re: Green Line to Medford to start in 2011 A few years ago, the T added sound barriers on the Red Line elevated between Charles/MGH station and the tunnel portal in Beacon Hill. I miss the close-up view of people's houses, but I"m sure the residents don't miss the every-3-minutes train noise.

I might be willing to support an Everett casino if Wynn were forced to build (or finance) a pedestrian bridge over the Mystic River to Assembly Square station. With such a bridge, it would be only an 1100 foot walk from T station to casino.

Sounds right to me, unless Wynn is planning to build a bridge over the railroad to the Target/Costco shopping center (and if he is, I haven't heard of such plans yet)

Current printed bus schedules expire on March 21.

No, but it appears that at least some folks in the neighborhood want an alternative plan. That's why we're having this discussion.