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I think when they started planning that Urban Ring route they were convinced that it would never make sense to build an Orange Line station at Assembly. But I think we should focus on rough approximations of straight lines instead of a single ring.

It certainly makes sense to have bus service run from Sullivan to Kendall (although it might work best with a new bridge near the south end of Inner Belt Road), but I don't think Chelsea to Everett to Sullivan to Kendall makes any sense; Chelsea to Kendall should be accomplished by rerouting 117...

Re: location of batteries in battery powered buses On the other hand, if you click the load more comments thing several times, it appears that things may not be that simple; one comment claims ``The BYD buses I've had a close look at have a split battery pack with 1/2 on the forward roof...

Re: Chelsea Creek Fuel Deliveries Bizarrely, when the Tennessee Valley Authority decided to sell the unfinished Bellefonte site, someone bought it with the intention of finishing it. And it cost someone (probably ratepayers?) $4 or $6 billion. Ten years from now, pipelines may well look...

I believe there's some other thread on this forum which had a link to a presentation where they indicated that they're only doing signal priority for far side bus stops and not near side bus stops, at least initially. But that's for mixed traffic operation; I wonder if they've planned out...

Re: Chelsea Creek Fuel Deliveries On the other hand, New England isn't subsidizing nuclear power plants the way folks in upstate New York and elsewhere in the country are, and as we see renewable energy use grow over the next decade, we'll want to similarly not be paying for pipelines that...

Why can't the construction be done by the end of 2018? Is there anything about installing a high level commuter rail platform at grade that can't be done in a weekend as long as prefabricated platform sections are constructed in advance? Didn't they get all of the PTC signal rework for the...

99 does have a bus lane in the morning from well north of Second to Sweetser Circle, and they're working on plans for a full time bus lane south of Sweetser Circle...

Re: Chelsea Creek Pleasure Boats Can we get an explicit ban on raising the bridge for pleasure boats during rush hour (maybe weekdays 5:30 AM to 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM)? It probably doesn't matter much now since there don't seem to be any dock facilities for such boats upstream of the...

Re: Chelsea Creek Fuel Deliveries The satellite images on Google Maps suggest that there are two locations where fuel deliveries happen upstream of the bridge: One tank farm is in Chelsea, on the east side of Eastern Ave just north of Griffin Way. Might a developer of luxury waterfront...

I'd certainly like SL3 to be able to consistently go over the bridge without delay, but is it at all realistic to insist that fuel deliveries only happen between midnight and 6AM, or even to avoid fuel deliveries during rush hour? I was under the impression that fuel deliveries often are done...

location of batteries in battery powered buses https://electrek.co/2018/04/06/electric-bus-rolls-over-crash-new-flyer/ claims in the body of the article that Proterra puts the batteries in the floor, and has a comment claiming BYD does likewise (at least in London), and in the body of the...

Re: early morning buses and end of night service Would it make any sense to add an outbound 28 trip departing Dudley at 3:05 AM and arriving at Mattapan at 3:15, and an outbound 18 trip departing Andrew at 3:25 AM with Dorchester Ave @ Hancock St being the last 18 stop with early morning...

Separating the bus lane space from the Green Line space is something that I'd only expect to happen just south of Dale St where the Green Line trains would stop to reverse directions and the separate bus lanes would keep the trains at the end of their runs from getting in the way of buses...

Google Maps makes it looks like Harrison south of Dudley St might be about 45' wide from curb to curb (excluding the sidewalk width). https://streetmix.net/JoelNWeberII/9/harrison-ave-s-of-dudley-st has a proposal to put a bidirectional bike path on the east side, tracks in the middle, and a...

https://streetmix.net/JoelNWeberII/8/warren-st-south-of-dale-st-in-boston has some thoughts on what a Dale St terminus might look like. There are some nuances that are hard to express well in Streetmix: the Green Line tracks need to get directions in Streetmix, but if this acts as a terminus...

Google Maps seems to think that, aside from a bit of Franklin Park, the southernmost part of Roxbury is Talbot Ave. Maybe Blue Hill Ave at Talbot Ave would be a good phase 2 terminus, with the possibility of phase 3 to Mattapan; getting to Talbot does require dealing with the difficult width at...

I agree that they were probably assuming too much in the way of bus route cancellation. My assumption is that if we get a train that goes from somewhere north of Lechmere to Park St and then continues along Washington St (and maybe Harrison south of Renfrew) and ends on Warren St just south of...

I want to focus on defining a reasonable phase 1 project at this point, something that balances providing some real utility vs minimizing the number of segments that neighbors might be so concerned about that they might want to kill the project. Dudley Station as the southern terminus is...

The distance from the portal to the Washington / Eustis intersection is the same regardless of whether you take Washington or Harrison from the Washington / Eustis intersection to the Warren / Harrison intersection. The Measure Distance tool in Google Maps tells me that Washington / Eustis to...