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Re: Allston Interchange / Throat http://amateurplanner.blogspot.com/2017/02/auburndale-is-broken-heres-way-to-fix-it.html claims $11.5 million will pay for Auburndale to have accessible full length high level platforms on both sides, including the elevators needed, even though it notes ``The...

What if the relevant part of Strathmore was pedestrianized with a single bidirectional track down the middle? On the portion of Strathmore which is south of Beacon and perpendicular to Beacon, there don't seem to be any driveways other than the Green line yard, the alley, and the driveway...

I'm wondering if extending the Blue Line three stops past Kenmore to have it serve Fenway, Longwood, and Brookline Village might make sense if that was done in conjunction with both a C-D and a D-E connector. Perhaps C would then run all the way out to Needham; people living near Riverside...

Re: CT2 near Kendall The CT2 still is one of the worst MBTA routes with respect to not going in a straight line, and it's not really possible to fix that and still have it covering all of the things CT2 does in a single route. There's probably some way to distribute what CT2 does to two or...

Re: Allston Interchange / Throat I think I'm suggesting, instead of running express buses, running local buses to take people to commuter rail stations from the bus stops where they currently board express buses (but I'm not sure whether that was F-Line's thinking). That does still turn one...

Re: Allston Interchange / Throat Do we know if Houghton Chemical is now transloading their shipments to truck somewhere, or if they're shutting down that facility? Does Indigo Regional Rail mean anything other than frequent service in both directions all day at the existing Newtonville, West...

https://www.epiccrowdcontrol.com/concrete-jersey-barricades.html says a 10' long Jersey barrier is about 4,000 pounds. To get enough Jersey barriers to equal the weight of one 80,000 pound tractor trailer that I think maybe the engineers might tolerate rolling across that bridge, one needs...

https://twitter.com/schlthss/status/1023248776327307265 seems to be saying that a bike path on a bridge ought to get at least 8' plus 2 x 2' buffer space, or 12', and not just 8'.

It looks like Cleveland Circle to Kenmore is 18 minutes whereas Reservoir to Kenmore is only 14 minutes. But with transit signal priority and stop consolidation, could that difference be reduced? If it were possible to build a C-D connector on Strathmore Rd to connect into the yard and...

I wonder if Peter Sutton, mentioned at https://www.mass.gov/service-details/bicycle-plan could clarify this.

Allston Interchange / Throat If we could eliminate both Soldiers Field Road and the Grand Junction Railroad track through the throat, the throat would just need to have space for the two Worcester Line tracks (30' according to Ari's post), I-90 (8 x 12' lanes is 96', plus 4 x 10' shoulders is...

Did you talk to Senator Markey, Senator Warren, and folks in the US House, then?

Grand Junction Railroad Do we have a cost estimate for the bridge that would be needed to carry the Grand Junction dead head traffic from West Station to the edge of the Charles River as the greater Allston Interchange area gets rebuilt, and an estimate of what sort of south side maintenance...

Re: North-South Rail Link Would there be anything difficult about electrifying and quad tracking the Fairmount Line? Presumably if that could be done, everything south of Readville going into the NSRL could go via the Fairmount Line, and then perhaps additional trains from points south of...

My understanding is that repaving can gradually reduce vertical clearance, but I have no idea whether the Tip O'Neil Tunnel has been paved recently relative to his last trip. The suspension on the truck or trailer might have been a little bit higher than what he was previously used to, or maybe...

Could Walker be converted to a one way street, with whichever lane becomes no longer for automobiles being converted to a bidirectional cycle track?

Don't double deckers tend to have longer dwell times for a given number of passengers getting on / off than 60' articulated buses if the double deckers have only a single staircase and only two doors? http://en.byd.com/usa/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/k11.pdf isn't terribly clear on which axle(s)...

The bottom of the 27th page of the PDF, which has page number ``19 of 51'' printed in the bottom right corner of the page number image, says the express would save 10 to 12 minutes by skipping stops. For a trip that takes about 4 hours, I think 10 to 12 minutes is a rounding error that isn't...

Re: 19 Watertown Sq to Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy Google St View shows that, traveling to the northeast along Hollis Ave in Quincy toward Newbury Ave, there are some wrong way do not enter signs not reflected in any one way arrows on the map. It does look like there's some exception...

19 Watertown Sq to Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy If you use the ``Measure distance'' tool in Google Maps to make a straight line as the crow flies from the Watertown Sq intersection to the Wendell Ave / Sachem St intersection in Quincy, it's just under 11 miles. In trying to run a bus...