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Indulge me please

How many more trainsets are needed for 3 min frequency?

I don't see a slope requirement

I got that from someone at FRA

A platform can have a 1% grade, so an 800ft platform can be 8ft lower on one end.

Where are you getting 6-9B per mile? Where are you getting these numbers from?

And lots of trains, and affordable housing (plenty of space at Otis) to reduce the traffic

They're talking 2-3B apiece, aren't they?

So, the present depth is 32ft. Let's assume future proofing to 50ft. Again, assume another 15 ft as a buffer. Add another 35ishft to reach the lower deck of a 55ish ft TBM shaft. About 2500ft of tunnel each side and then some trenches either side? The power ROW could be used to connect 495 to Rt...

Was tunneling explored as an option?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_bus For very minimal cost, this would greatly increase speed/capacity, and would allow both BRT and LRT simultaneously

So I guess all the new buildings being built in downtown Wormtown are all being built by delusional people. I'm going to guess that, baring data from you, the funders dumping a billion or more into Worcester may have data that refutes your feelings.

Worcester County grew by about 8 % between 2000 and 2020

Worcester Line improvements also facilitate "CompassRail" development. Worcester is the fastest growing city in the NE and better transit is needed to continue. The Worcester Line is the 2nd most used line

This is a tragedy

And since the MBTA has nothing to do with it, it is not costing $40 million.

Cost

The solution is RL to Arlington Heights and a single track LRT to Bedford

It would be Boston Glass in that case

The trolleybus expenses are total bs. The T was trying to get rid of the catenary and cooked the numbers to justify it