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No worries, your post just put me on the defensive. I'll agree that the political realities of such an LRT line would be... fraught. The 28X was a disaster that everyone involved really should have learned from. I was aware the bus network down there was a lattice, but the sheer extent of it...

I'm not saying connecting to the Tremont subway is impossible, just that it's harder than laying track in a median. But as you say most proposals for a new line to Nubian don't involve reusing the portal, and instead require a lot of much more complex tunneling than I was proposing on Warren St...

From an engineering perspective you need to reactive a portal that hasn't been used in a long time. There's going to need to be upgrades to make, and the portal was north of the Pike, so how do you cross that? Or do you create a new portal south of the Pike and just use the existing flying...

I agree! It's a perfectly reasonable transit pitch, however it involves the spooky spectre of actually pouring concrete, and is therefore Crazy on these forums. In all honesty, the mysteries about the northern end of such a branch are enough to actually cement it in Crazy town for me. Needing...

Having thought about this a bit more: The stop spacing around the tunnelled section would be reasonable. About 3000 ft spacing, which is about double what they just rebuild the BU stops as. Depending on whether they're trying to match existing station spacing ala the B&C lines, or longer...

The Warren St issue always seemed overblown to me. Other LRT systems seem to have no problem temporarily ducking into C&C tunnels or onto temporary elevated structures (obviously the tunnel would be preferable here). There are convenient medians on either end where the ROW would be going anyway...

The fare gates were value-engineered out. They cost money, and the only reason this is getting built is that corners were cut. There are some stations where they will absolutely make more sense to have than the current system, but we'll see if anything ever happens. Ultimately it shouldn't...

Rode the extension the other day for the first time. Thoughts: The slow zone ends right at the viaduct. The cars really scoot as soon as they exit it and start to approach Lechmere. The outbound flying junction is quite loud and screechy. Combined with the slow speed and the stop at the end...

Do these tunnels date to the burying of the OL and original Canal St. portals, or were they rebuilt as part of the reconfiguration when Government Center was built?

All other branches terminating at Lechmere? That can't be right, right?

God, I remember that. I was late to work for three weeks straight before they finally got things under control. I know it's slightly on the side of crazy (because it involves pouring concrete), but I'd love to see service return, and even extended down to Mansfield. Construct an additional...

Similarly, it's a shame they weren't able to find room for a third track at each of these stations. Also, Newtonville getting four elevators when they don't seem to do much beyond reduce travel times seems a bit extravagant. Perhaps having to do with the station not having room for more ramps...

Actually, yeah. I'm having trouble finding almost anything with search older than a few days. Going to F-Line's profile is also of no use. Using Google instead gives me some comments +/- a few pages here. TL;DR it's the freight switch that causes the real issues. I'm not entirely willing to...

How does this new plan interact with these concerns? The fact that it's 7 feet as opposed to 30 definitely makes things easier. I'm tempted to say that dismissing the idea out-of-hand wasn't the right move if that's the direction the state ended up going in.

Would an island platform work for these stations? I don't remember hearing that discussed, but it would save on elevators and space at the cost of additional trackwork.

Them putting "The Future" on as the destination is just amazing. EDIT: Also, what kind of platform is this? The car is halfway down the tunnel. I can only imagine it left the station without closing its doors and she's leaping to get on at the last second before it careens off into the tunnel.

Ignoring for a second the COVID impacts to Commuter Rail ridership and the effects that's going to have on funding for capital projects, what's the next reasonably major expansion of the CR that we're looking at after the South Coast Rail shenanigans are over? I'm not talking about...

Yeah. The Church Street station isn't that far from it. I'm just remembering the days of everyone talking about trying to get the Red Line out to Hanscom, or various discussions about improving the connections to TF Green.

I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more about the rail connection to Fall River Regional Airport given how fervent the discussions here used to be about new air-rail connections to keep up with Logan growth.

Is this the first time we've gotten real numbers on the SL3's ridership? I remember that number being hard to track down previously.