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And CSX prefers a separated track for passenger stations.

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And NEC has a large yard just south

I get tired of private corps taking public funds and thinking that no conditions attach.

Except there are three tracks in the likely station area and a five track wide yard just to the east. I'm sure that freight interests were consulted in Holyoke as well

How more specific can one be than to suggest a station be copied in generalities from one 15 miles away? PVTA just built a 150 bus garage that's design could be copied for Quincy garage at nearly 1/10th the price. European EMUs can be purchased for half of what they cost here. The T spends 4x...

Such a waste of taxpayer funds

I was using hyperbole to make the point that Holyoke cost 4.5M is today's dollars and that spending more than that on preliminaries for Palmer is obscene bloat and indicative of the MBTAs inability to control costs. People should lose their jobs if that's what it takes, but business as usual has...

So, a station at Church St would be about 600ft from the present rotary pattern of NC. That's about as close as you can get it to the hotel. A Fanuiel station would disrupt the express bus patterns of the Brighton 5xxs. The key is to stop thinking of the 57 as the main mover of people and, while...

And the budget bloat for stations begins. Palmer should xerox the plans from Holyoke and build the station for what the budget expects to spend on study and design

And Massport would kick in as a Logan Express node

The walkshed is non existent west and the new W Newton station would be more centered to the density. The Weston station would be more of a P&R and TOD prospect. . Wellesley Farms is over 1.25 miles west

Newton Corner needs a station but unless the hotel gets torn down the likeliest location would be to the west.

500 pax between the two station, of whom nearly 100 drive there. The western half of Auburndales walkshed is park and river. 6000 people take 5xxs. They could be feeding the RR. Several of them cover significant amounts of Washington St and your TOD folk could take the bus if they aren't that close

Might work if a Weston P&R was built in RR world. And a LRT extension from Arlington Heights to Burlington would be more sellable or even a version of those rubber tired trams that China is using...

I would move the Newtonville station east to just west of Church St, close enough to NC to count, move West Newton just west of it's present location(studied by T when station consolidation was on the plate) and move Auburndale to Weston at 128. Keeps the number of stations on this route...

And there should never be more than one pax train at a time each way, and can be timed to meet in either a triple tracked section or at a station. Single track lines support at least quarter hour service even here in North America. And significant sections of of the row were triple tracked(or...

And CSX wants Uncle to cover other things as well . I get awfully tired of companies wanting government subsidies but not willing to make concessions.

Considering that neither Amtrak or CSX is willing to pay for a damn thing....