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I've largely settled on the following for my internal stuff: Chelsea Square: Anything at the actual Chelsea Square, near 2nd St / Cross St Bellingham Square: Anything around Chelsea City Hall, or the Washington Ave & Broadway intersection Chelsea Market: Today's commuter rail/SL3 station at...

(Even more) comments on specific stations You may have just tilted my preference back to "Government Center" again. The elephant in the room is that the MBTA transit map covers many cities and municipalities in the region, not just Boston. A Chelsea resident somehow mistaking "City Hall" for...

Using street names as stop names: A slightly different perspective Well, the "convention" of naming transit stations after cross streets certainly isn't unique to North America. I'm far from a worldwide transit expert, but I know that plenty of Chinese cities are also using street names. A key...

Red X alignments and walksheds: Restrictiveness of JFK/UMass I actually feel that any Red X proposal that uses JFK/UMass would inevitably have somewhat weak walksheds -- and the issue lies with the Red Line's alignment itself. JFK/UMass is on a pedestrian island. Andrew and Broadway also have...

The proposed station site is roughly halfway between the actual towns of North Andover and Ward Hill, and halfway between existing Bradford and Lawrence stations. I would prefer simply naming it "Osgood Landing" instead of either of the two municipalities. Note that the ridership figures are...

Ironically, I think "Red X to Back Bay" may be one of the cheapest options south of South End. If you run the alignment below, once you turn onto I-93, you can rise to an El (or even surface) along the uber-wide I-93 ROW, then switch to the Red Line (yard leads) once it's available: The other...

Great ideas, @The EGE! Some more specific comments: I definitely agree with this: It's worth considering subway trunks that do not necessarily go through the narrowly defined "Downtown Boston", or the Shawmut Peninsula. That's what I like the most about the Kendall-Back Bay idea -- it double...

Community College CR station IF a mega station here is feasible, I can see the great value that it would add. Proximity to Cambridge Crossing is the biggest asset here, as the CR ROW is even closer to some offices than Lechmere is. Cambridge Crossing is no Kendall and no Back Bay at the...

The City of Lexington just announced that MBTA is improving service on bus routes 62 and 76, effective August 24, 2025 (presumably when the fall schedule begins): https://www.lexingtonma.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=749 Both routes will run 30-min frequencies during weekday peak hours (Combined...

I'll not elaborate too much here, but my verdict is that the "Brickbottom Junction modification" alignment is only cleanly optimal if you're dead set on routing the Urban Ring from Grand Junction to Community College, giving up Sullivan altogether. In this scenario, yes, it's the only viable...

United and JetBlue just announced their partnership (and I'm surprised nobody has posted this yet): https://thepointsguy.com/news/united-airlines-jetblue-partnership/ Highlights: Interline agreement, with bookings available on each other's website Reciprocal loyalty benefits and miles United...

Given the expected time frame for any passenger rail on the Central Corridor (aka not anytime soon), what's stopping us from just building something at Palmer first so that East-West rail can run normally, and revisiting the question later, potentially moving/rebuilding Palmer station if...

FWIW, I actually spent considerable time in early 2024 visiting the LMA buildings in person and mapping the various exits, with exactly this goal in mind -- figuring out the "nearest exits" for each. Hopefully I can find time to finish up the analysis soon...

According to the GLX Technical Proposal (document page 4-152, PDF page 12), looks like the grades are: 1.554% at the "No. 6 turnout", where outbound Union Sq branch splits from the Medford/Tufts "mainline" 1.001% at the "No. 10 turnout", where inbound Union Sq branch joins the Medford/Tufts...

^ Great comments! In theory, yes, the walk from the D branch's Longwood station seems tolerable. But as I just posted in the Transit Data & Analysis thread, when LMA riders face a choice between the two branches for inbound trips, much more riders choose the E's LMA and Brigham Circle stations...

A GLX infill at the flying junction that you labeled is likely infeasible for a few reasons: Any Green Line platform will need 225' of length for two Type 10 cars. The westbound Union Square ramp only has 160', and that includes the unbuilt ramp NE to GLMF. There seems to be a series of...

Preliminary analysis: Ridership of Longwood Medical Area (LMA), and patterns for the Green Line D/E branches Here are some ridership patterns from Fall 2024 data, which surprised me: People are commuting to LMA differently than how they go back home from LMA -- they use the Green Line more for...

I strongly disagree. Most of the screenshot below show the Cambridge Crossing developments just northeast of Lechmere station; a few others are apartment buildings to the west. In comparison, here's the entire area from Inman Square (bottom) to Union Square Somerville (top): The Cambridge...

That's a good point. I did find out from an earlier analysis (not published yet) that the GL D/E branch stations at LMA have higher alightings from downtown than boardings to downtown, meaning that more people take the Green Line to LMA than from LMA. Do you have any sources and/or detailed...

That's a great point! There are two ways of accounting for CR transfers: Use the 2015-17 Passenger Survey to get the number of subway riders at Back Bay, Copley and South Station who came from commuter rail. Use the 2018 Commuter Rail ridership counts to get total commuter rail ridership at...